Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs | Daily Essay
Episode 144
3 months of mornings bought one Saturday's worth of information. In 2012 I coded before work every day on a product nobody had agreed to buy, then fo…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score | Daily Essay
Episode 143
A single digit between -4 and +4 scores each day. Two questions follow it each night. An app called Apex correlates a year of those scores against ha…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
AI's 7-Month Doubling Rule | Daily Essay
Episode 142
METR sizes an AI's capability by the longest job it can finish, measured against how long a person would take, and through 2025 that length doubled r…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Y Combinator's 1,000-to-1 Bet | Daily Essay
Episode 141
Charlie Munger accused venture capitalists of screwing their investors, then called the business legitimate if you do it right. Two strategies sit be…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule | Daily Essay
Episode 140
One drop of solder came off each kerosene can and kept paying Rockefeller for as long as the plant ran. Rockefeller, Amazon, Voyager 1, a 272-year-ol…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
You're Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big. | Daily Essay
Episode 139
Two men who won the Nobel Prize for pricing options helped found a fund that lost 4.6 billion dollars in four months. Ed Thorp ran the formula that n…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification | Daily Essay
Episode 138
I put off a book for 15 years and finished it before lunch. The notebook it came out of had been filling since 2013, which is the whole point: Johan …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing | Daily Essay
Episode 137
James Dyson built the same vacuum cleaner 5,127 times in an unheated coach house while his wife taught school to cover the mortgage. Four years on on…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Everything Feels Important? It's a Ranking Problem | Daily Essay
Episode 136
Napoleon's surgeon-in-chief had more wounded men than surgeons, so he threw rank out and sorted by injury instead. Alexander Kotov wrote the same mov…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Neil Gaiman's Two-Draft Rule | Daily Essay
Episode 135
Each book Neil Gaiman writes gets written twice. He writes the first draft by hand, because a pen is slow enough to think a sentence all the way thro…
2 months, 3 weeks ago