The top 0.1% of resources that have impacted my life (and that I’ve revisited at least 3 times).
Name
Author
Topic
Quick Summary
Link
Last Consumed
Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI)
Career
No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
Jun 25, 2023
Andrew Bosworth “Boz” (CTO @Meta)
Career
Hop on a 30min call with people and be a sponge.
Jun 27, 2023
Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI)
Career
1. Compound yourself
2. Have too much self belief
3. Think independently
4. Get good at “sales”
5. Make it easy to take risks
6. Focus
7. Work hard
8. Be bold
9. Be willful
10. Be hard to compete with
11. Build a network
12. You get rich by owning things
13. Be internally driven
Jun 27, 2023
Paul Graham (Founder of YCombinator)
Career
Treat school like a day job and work on interesting projects in your free time.
Jun 27, 2023
Julian Shapiro (Founder of Demand Curve)
Career
The ultimate guide to starting a startup.
Jul 11, 2023
Julian Shaprio (Founder of Demand Curve)
Mindset
Every decision is either prioritization or allocation.
Jul 11, 2023
Jocko Willink (Former Navy SEAL)
Mindset
Every circumstance can be framed as a positive.
Jul 11, 2023
Paul Graham (Founder of YCombinator)
Career
The best way to do this is to make something you yourself want. Write the story you want to read; build the tool you want to use.
Jul 11, 2023
Naval Ravikant (Founder of Angel List)
Career
Learn to sell. Learn to build. Productize yourself.
Jul 11, 2023
Dr. Faisal Jamshaid
Career
Lessons on how to live a full and busy life.
Jul 11, 2023
Shaan Puri (Founder of Bebo)
Career
Find what feels like play to you, and work to others
- Find a way to hangout with people who either have what you want, or are chasing it as hard as you
- Take a simple strategy, and turn up the intensity
Jul 11, 2023
Shaan Puri, Sam Parr, Anthony Pompliano
Entrepreneurship
- A good business idea needs capital, distribution, and a smart operator
- Hang around people with a high compounding learning rate
- Distribution is a huge value add to any business
- Find your edge and double down
Aug 7, 2023
Patrick Collision (co-founder of STRIPE)
Career
- Go deep on multiple interests
- Make friends over the internet
- Read a lot
- Make things
- Go where it’s happening
- You’re not too young to do great things
Aug 21, 2023
Anthony Pompliano
Career
- Use your age as an advantage
- Never let them see you sweat
- No one knows what they’re doing
- Treat yourself like a professional
- Learn how to sell
- Go where the action is
- Write nice handwritten notes
- Email everyone on the Forbes list, tell them you’re 17, ask for a 10min phone call to interview them
Aug 21, 2023
James Clear & Tim Ferriss
Self-improvement
- What am I optimizing for?
- Can my current habits carry me to my desired future?
- How can I create an environment that will naturally bring about my desired changed?
- Where can I reduce the friction?
- What is the work that keeps working for me after I stop working?
Sep 1, 2023
James Clear
Self-improvement
A collection of transcripts of great speeches most people have never heard of.
Sep 1, 2023
Naval Ravikant
Entrepreneurship
- Learn to build. Learn to sell.
- Productize Yourself
- Build specific knowledge
Sep 5, 2023
Erik Torenberg
Career
- To find your personal moat, ask: “What’s something that’s easy for me to do but hard for others? What's something I have that’s very difficult for people to reverse engineer?”
- If there’s a playbook, how defensible is it?
- Passive social capital > Passive income
- Discover what’s easy for you but hard for others, then get so good they can’t ignore you, and then leverage that to accrue social and financial capital.
Sep 7, 2023
Erik Torenberg
Career
- Asymmetric opportunities usually have meaningful upside in a success case, and meaningful learning or development in a downside case.
- Young, smart people are afraid to look dumb so they follow safe paths that cap their downside, not realizing that they also cap their upside.
- Especially when you’re young, accumulate optionality through the skills you gain, knowledge you acquire, and the unique experiences you undergo.
Sep 7, 2023
Harry Dry
Writing
I revisit this every time I have an important piece of writing to write.
Sep 14, 2023
David Senra
Self-improvement
Find work that feels like play. Productize yourself. Read books. Master the fundamentals. Health, love, and your mission. Nothing else matters.
Oct 8, 2023
Chris Hladczuk
Career
Attract, Search, Strengthen. Simple, spacing, specific.
Dec 5, 2023
Ryan Holiday
Career
- The goal of an apprenticeship is to demystify the process. Just like a golfer walks the course before they play, you become familiar with the terrain.
- Every time you speak with your mentor, have one question ready to ask them.
Dec 20, 2023
Ryan Holiday
Career
- Take feedback
- Always say less than necessary
- Alive time vs. Dead time
- You have to be the driver of your own life/career/advancement.
- Lengthen your timeline
- Keep your plans to yourself
- Sometimes you have to take a step back to go forward.
- “If you can’t walk away, then you don’t have the job…the job has you.”
Feb 21, 2024
David Perell
Career
It's is a unique intersection of skills, interests, and personality traits that make you one-of-a-kind. Build yours by obsessively learning about an important topic, tackling ambitious projects, and writing about your best ideas.
Feb 23, 2024
Ryan Holiday
Career
- Always say less than necessary
- If you’re working all the time, you’re doing something wrong.
- Know how this all fits into your grand strategy
- Take ownership of your education
- Relax
- Don’t get high on yourself. Be quiet, work hard, stay healthy. Show humility, diligence, and self-awareness
Feb 25, 2024