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Why the Curious Peak Late

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308. Why I Quit Podcasting

307. A.I. Can't Bake

306. Summary: The Triumph of Doubt by David Michaels

305. Hedgehogs and Foxes

304. Too Many Ideas, Must Pick One

303. Livestream/AMA: Publishing Outside Amazon, Focusing Curiosity, and Mind Management

302. The Four Sources of Shiny Object Syndrome

301. 1,500 Words on Writing a 5-Word Tweet

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300. The Mechanics of Media

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299. Why Make Predictions? (and How)

298. Kellogg's 6-Hour Day

297. Desire Paths

296. Beyond Vulnerability

295. Summary: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

294. Sure Bets and Wildcards

293. Carrots, Sticks, and Blinders

292. Summary: The Network: The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age, by Scott Woolley

291. The Project Halfpipe

290. Leonardo Mind, Raphael World

289. Livestream/AMA: Book Marketing, Motivation, Language Learning, Picking a Project, and Selling Foreign Rights

288. Summary: Old Masters and Young Geniuses, by David W. Galenson

287. David Perell: Being a Hedgehog When You're a Fox, Living With the Twitter Algorithm, Learning from Tyler Cowen, and Building Mass for Leverage

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286. Nobody Knows Anything

285. Crumb Time

284. Curiosity Management

283. Fifteen Years as a Creator. (I'll Never Make It.)

282. How I Put My Book on a Times Square Billboard (What Did It Cost, & Did It Work?)

281. E.R.A.S.E. F.E.A.R. and Finish Your Creative Projects

280. Surround and Conquer (Your Biggest Dreams)

279. Summary: Industrial Society and Its Future (The Unabomber Manifesto)

278. Summary: The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

277. Summary: Trust Me, I'm Lying – by Ryan Holiday

276. How Matthew Walker Ruined My Sleep (& How I Fixed It)

275. Finish What Matters (Forget the Rest)

274. Summary: Balaji Srinivasan – Centralized China vs Decentralized World – The Tim Ferriss Show #547

273. Write on a Typewriter

272. Ode to the Unfinished

271. How to Be Somebody

270. My Cooking System

269. Farm What You Forage

268. The Void

267. The Finisher's Paradox

266. The Foundation Effect

265. Shipping is a Skill

264. Creative Waste

263. The Iceberg Principle

262. Aim Left

261. Shiny Object Syndrome

260. How I Produce My Weekly Newsletter

259. My Nighttime Routine

258. 8 Harsh Truths About Dating (from a former professional dater)

257. The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin Book Summary

256. Use the Barbell Strategy for Success in Creativity (& Life)

255. My Low-EMF Computing Setup

254. Why I Lost $4,000 on my BookBub Featured Deal (& Why I'd Do it Again)

253. Creative Success in Extremistan (Not Mediocristan)

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252. Amusing Ourselves to Death Book Summary

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251. Survivorship Bias's Fatal Flaw

250. My Zettelkasten: An Author's Digital Slip-Box Method Example (Using Plain-Text Software)

249. How to Take Smart Notes Book Summary

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248. Understanding Media (by Marshall McLuhan) Book Summary

247. How to Land a BookBub Featured Deal

246. What I Learned from Naval Ravikant's Meditation Challenge of 60 Hours in 60 Days

245. The Avocado Challenge: Tell The Future

244. The Black Swan Book Summary (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

243. Buy Mind Management, Not Time Management at kdv.co/mind

242. Getting Thing Done Book Summary

241. Raised Floors

240. Welcome to the Creative Age

239. Week of Want

238. Shun the Unearned

237. Complexity Creep & The Birthday Problem

236. Time Worship

235. Clock Time Event Time

234. How to Have a Thought

233. Device Divorce

232. I Thought I Had Time Management All Figured Out, Then I Tried to Write a Book

231. Start Finishing: Charlie Gilkey

230. Grippy & Slippy

229. FOMO: Get the Good & Miss Out on the Bad – Patrick McGinnis

228. 11 Simple Ways to Be 100x More Effective Than Most People

227. Ari Meisel: More Productivity, Less Doing

226. The End of Time Management

225. Andrew Mason: When Your Plan B is a Billion-Dollar Idea

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224. Sloppy Operating Procedure

223. How to Support the Grieving: Megan Devine

222. Stop Listening To My Podcast

221. How to Predict the Future: Dylan Evans

220. I Moved to the Third World for a Better Life

219. How to Be a Better Person, By NOT Being "Nice". Dr. Aziz Gazipura