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Back to SearchSatoshi Nakamoto: Absent Authority | Biography
Episode 43
Satoshi Nakamoto built money that could run without personal trust, then protected it by becoming impossible to find. This biography traces the techn…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Mental Toughness via Meditation
Episode 42
I sit still for two and a half hours each day. Meditation trains a specific muscle: each minute is a rep against the urge to stop or check the time, …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years
Episode 41
I learned to code alone in Vim, with no one to unblock me. A single bug could cost a month. The high-friction years built the foundation that made ev…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Willpower Is Finite (How to Do Hard Things Anyway)
Episode 40
Stanford says believe hard enough and your willpower becomes unlimited. Henry Ford said the same thing a century earlier. Turns out the battery drain…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Morning Habits That Stick (Why Order Matters)
Episode 39
I keep my habits in an app that tracks how often I do each one. The ones at the top of the list have longer streaks. Position is the lever. Willpower…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Eat Your Own Cooking
Episode 38
Most bug reports travel through three people before anyone fixes them. By then the pain is a paragraph in a ticket and the person who felt it has mov…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins
Episode 37
I write a post each morning. By lunch, that post is a video on YouTube. One action that touches more than one node in your system at once. I call thi…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
Episode 36
One line from my prediction markets video kept looping in my head. The market price was supposed to reflect what the crowd believed. It was reflectin…
6 months ago
Launch First, Name Later
Episode 35
I spent two days on a name and shipped zero code. Domain searches across a dozen tabs. Then I stopped, deployed on a subdomain and started shipping. …
6 months ago
I Deleted Social Media. Here's What I Kept.
Episode 34
You already know the cost before you open the app. You open it anyway. The algorithm that taught you a skill in a month is the same one eating your e…
6 months ago