Some ideas are so powerful that once you learn them, you see them everywhere. Evolution is one of those mental models. Here's where to see and use it.
Most Books Won’t Change Your Life (But You Should Read Them Anyways)
You should be reading way more books than you have time to apply. Reading a book is cheap, implementing ideas is hard, reading too little creates waste.
Useful Mental Model: Efficient Markets (and the Efficient Market Hypothesis)
Some ideas are so powerful and general that once you learn them deeply you start to see them everywhere. Efficient markets is one of those ideas. Unfortunately, efficient markets is also an idea that gets a lot of hate. The reason is that the simple logic of efficient markets often leads to conclusions people would […]
Unpopular Opinion: Don’t Just Get Started
Everyone tells you to "just get started." But what if that's bad advice? Here's how to separate planning from procrastination and achieve hard things.
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