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Being Unhappy Is Very Inefficient
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
Desire Is a Contract You Make to Be Unhappy
Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop
Happiness Is Not Science or Math
Happiness Without Material Comfort Is Playing on Hard Mode
Live Long Enough and You’ll Become a Philosopher
How to Angel Invest, Part 1
Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products
Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today
Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid For
Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More
Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier
Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games
Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating
Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin
Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner
Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive
Being Ethical Is Long-Term Greedy
We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves
Accountability Means Letting People Criticize You
How to Get Rich: Every Episode
Productize Yourself
There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes
A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
Reject Most Advice
Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Escape Competition Through Authenticity
Keep Redefining What You Do
Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee”
Work As Hard As You Can
Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate
Judgment Is the Decisive Skill
Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech
Pick a Business Model With Leverage
Product Leverage Is Egalitarian
Product and Media Are New Leverage
Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage
Take Accountability to Earn Equity
Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage
There's No Actual Skill Called Business
The Foundations Are Math and Logic
Read What You Love Until You Love to Read
Learn to Sell, Learn to Build
Specific Knowledge Is Highly Creative or Technical
Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge
Partner With Rational Optimists
Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
Live Below Your Means for Freedom
You Won't Get Rich Renting Out Your Time
Make Luck Your Destiny
Making Money Isn't About Luck
Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans
Make Abundance for the World
Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status