Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWe Are All Investors | Daily Essay
Episode 54
Say the word investor and most people picture money. Money is one resource among several you trade every day to close the gap between where you are a…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit | Daily Essay
Episode 53
I broke my meditation practice many times over fifteen years. The pattern was always the same. A working practice, the impulse to make it more effici…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Faster | Daily Essay
Episode 52
Three types of experiments — mental, physical, social — cost different amounts of energy. The type you avoid most is usually the one to lean into nex…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Lee Kuan Yew: Engineered Sovereignty | Biography
Episode 51
Lee Kuan Yew built one of the most efficient states in modern history and engineered the legal toolkit that kept his party in office for fifty-six ye…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why I Rewrite My Principles by Hand | Daily Essay
Episode 50
Each day I'd open my notebook and copy yesterday's principles to a new page by hand. Some lines I wrote without thinking. Others slowed me down.
Feat…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Minimalist Philosophy of a Jellyfish | Daily Essay
Episode 49
Each day I remove three things. A physical item, an app off my phone, a subscription on autopay. A jellyfish has no brain and has lasted 500 million …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Some Habits Stick: 12 Tardigrade Traits | Daily Essay
Episode 48
I came up with a term to describe something I value. If tardigradity is the probability a thing keeps going, it has to come from somewhere.
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5 months, 2 weeks ago
Buy the Red Ocean | Daily Essay
Episode 47
Most founders see 15 competitors and feel deflated. They should feel relieved. The buyer's move in a red ocean is to switch seats and let the market …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow? | Daily Essay
Episode 46
What's forced falls apart. The line between effort and force is flow, and the test is whether the market is returning what you put in.
Featuring: Nav…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Ray Dalio's 42-Year Daily Habit | Daily Essay
Episode 45
Most people treat their morning routine like a battery that runs all day. It doesn't. Meetings, decisions and small frictions bleed it dry by noon. R…
5 months, 3 weeks ago