mainTop Down →README →Home →Weakness Is Seen In Our Unsettlement By Something External →We Understand Humility As A False Idea →We Live Under Delusions Of Control →We Take The Path Of Least Resistance →Use Whatever Befalls Us In A Wise Manner →We Do Not Control Ourselves When Busy →We Feel Pleasure From Anger →True Philosophy Is To Be Practiced When It'S Less Convenient →The Tendency To Find A Scapegoat For Our Problems →There Is No Virtue In Enduring Things We Don'T Feel →The Importance Of Feeling Lost →The Need To Put Down Amazing People When Complementing Them →The Deception Of The Insincere Question →Take Actual Action To Arbitrage A Situation →The Brain Is Most Creative When You Don'T Tell It What To Do →Sharpness Leaves But Learning Stays →Stop Complaining About What You Perceive As Lacking In The World →Remember To See Through Verbose Language →Rewarding Good Actions →Reducing The Downsides Of Pleasures →Reality Stressors Are More Important Than Reading Stressors →Protecting Your Character From Crisis →Reading Books And The Density Problem →Procrastination Must Be Embraced →Pride Blunts Our Ability To Grow →Overestimating The Obstacles Of The Present →Our Character Augments Itself When Successful →Obstacles As Opportunities →Our Actions Are Influenced By Association →No Injury Lasts As Long As The Self Inflicted →Mental Clarity, Courage, And The Influence Of Our Ills →Mistakes Get Worse Once You Try To Correct Them →Living In The Present Implies Courage →Master Your Disposition Rather Than Your Surroundings →Labeling Idiots And Geniuses →Let Go Of Your Legacy To Create A New One →Is This Alive Time Or Dead Time →Keep Your Projects Out Of The Conversation →Injury Is Bearable Through Excellence Of Character →Insults Hurt Because They Have A Degree Of Truth →Intolerance Towards Inconsistencies →Hating Something Is Avoiding To Arbitrage →In Order To Be Great, You Need To Play Like The Greats →Handling Death And Avoiding Lament →Hating An Individual Makes You Loose Perspective →Good, Bad, Wrong, Right Are Second Order Labels →Environment Affects Your Disposition To Activities →Evaluate Yourself Against Your Past →Everything Starts From 1% Improvements →Do Not Label Externalities As Good Or Bad →Do Not Let The Transgression Of Another Infect Your Character →Discipline Advice Suffers Density Problems →Do Not Allow Pain To Dominate Your Character →Creating Conclusions From First Impressions →Dealing With Pains →Being Misguided By Our Own Narratives →Causes Trump Statistics →Avoid Developing A Pseudo Passion In Your Area →Becoming Truly Free →Action Is Needed To Evaluate The Procrastination Filter →Advance Through Actions And Don'T Look To Prove Yourself →Friendships That End Have A Sucker In Them →Friends Are Corrupted By Undeserved Power →Seducing By Becoming An Ideal Lover →Discussions Can Never Be Won →Do Not Provoke Others With Your Wording →Repulsion Of The Moralizer →Revulsion Of Acting Like A Brute →Develop A Genuine Interest For Real Friends →Power In Words →Prefer Skills Over Nepotism →Protect Your Reputation Against Rumors →Covering Lies With Constant Speech →Poetization Of Your Presence →Convincing Involves Communicating Their Interests →People Don'T Learn From What They Hear, But What They Experience →People Judging Others To Be Arrogant Or Intelligent →Play Into Another'S Feeling Of Superiority →Control The Complaints Of Others →Open Yourself In Order For Effective Seduction →Outshine The Failing Master →Carefully Tailor Honesty →Conceal Your Intentions →Mixing Pleasure With Pain →Open Through Lack Of Completeness →Breaking Seduction By Having No Sense Of Time →Mastering The Bold Move →Bore Of An Inability Of Self-Sacrifice →Make Cinema Out Of Your Idea Or Exposition →Make Masters Feel Superior To You →Avoid Trying To Convince Charlatans →Bait Others To Come To You →Keeping Up The Excitement Of Others →Loyalty And Following Being Asymetric →Avoid The Unhappy And Unlucky →Keep An Air Of Mystery In Action →Keep People Dependent On You →Associating Your Image To The Glamorous Past →Avoid Being The Victim Of The Insecurity Of A Master →Isolating The Victim →Guard Your Reputations As Your Life Depends On It →Immediately Admit When You Are Wrong →Appeal Towards Others' Self Interest →Associate With Things Considered High-Value By The Other →Give People Something To Tunnel Vision On →Giving Criticism Is Useless →An Authentic Smile Causes A Nice Mood →Gain Control By Making Others Feel Strong →Gaining The Upper Hand On Liars →Always Say Less Than Necessary →A Counter For Selective Manipulation →"I Think" Detracts Value From Your Word →Win Through Actions, Never Through Argument →Your Reputation Is Harmed Most By What You Say To Defend It →When Abscence Is More Than Presence →Using Spiritual Lures →Valuing A Person Through Impressions →Use Existing Enemies To Your Benefit →Use Mirrors To Make People Feel Comfortable In Their Acting →True Generosity Is Not An Investment Strategy →Turn Enemies Into The Best Of Friends →The Seduction Of Insinuation →Thread Carefully If You Are Known To Be Deceitful →Throw Enemies Off With Patterns →The Rarer Or Harder To Get The More Desired →The Art Of Insinuation →The Problem With Unabashed Honesty →The Pursuer Is Pursued →The Appeal Of Danger And Rakey Behavior →The Appeal Of Realizing Others' Fantasies →The Antithesis Between Charm And Nerdiness →Suspense And Drama Buildup →Take The Credit From People That Came Before You →Taking Credit Is Often More Important Than The Invention Itself →Stir Up The Transgressions And Taboo →Surround With The Sensational And Scandalous →Show The Little Things →Start Conversation With Agreements →Send Mixed Signals →Show And Prove Yourself →Seduction Depends On Suggestion →Selective Honesty Distracts People →Seduction By The Charmer →Seduction By The Coquette →Seduction By The Dandy →Seduction By The Charismatic →Winning Arguments And Winning →We Often Try To Override Our Natural Inclinations Without Trying To Work With Them →What Is Irrational Under Uncertainty →Verbal Threats Lack Skin In The Game To Be Significant →Vandalism Of Ideas, Prostitution Of The Intellect →There Is Natural Admiration To True Virtue →The Rereading Illusion →The Scope Of Knowing Knowledge →The Problems With Soulless Writing →The Problem With Copying The Habits Of Geniuses →The Perils Of Modern Philosophy →The Predictive Problem Of Newspapers →The Misunderstanding Of Learning And Training →The Inability To Learn From What You Know →The Dangers Of The Failure Of Perspective →The Illusion Of Massed Practice →The Asymmetric Risks And Outputs Of Professions →Scientific Ideas And The Lindy Effect →The 4Th Type Of Luck →Retrieval And Spaced Repetition →Real Books Cannot Be Summarized →Recognizing Faults In Thinking →Rationality Is Independent Of Narrative Explanations →Private Life That Conflicts With Intellectual Opinion →On The Difference Between The Fool, Nerd, And Wise →Most Of What We Understand Are Approximations To The Truth →More Information Leads To More Delusions →Let There Be A Difference Between You And The Books →Learning From The Economy Or From Economic Theory →Implying Arrogance When Showing Humility →Intervals In Spaced Repetition →Ideas That Survive Promote Survival →Glamor Often Deceives Us About The Thinking Of Others →Hidden Craziness Of Peer Reviews →Everything Is Straightforward Until You Face Risk →Follow The Contrary Of A Role Model →Do Not Treat Your Inferior Like You Wouldn'T Like Your Superior To Treat You →Do Not Trust The Advice From Advice-Givers. →Distinguishing Between The Wrong And The Mistake →Detecting Fraudulent Behavior →Differences Between Our Ideal And Reality On Human Behavior →Conventional Learning Is Often Wrong →Being Rational About Rationality →Become A Student And Stay A Student →Aphorisms Force You To Change Reading Habits →Avoid Overrating Your Experiences →Addiction Has Skin In The Game →Admiration Should Go Towards Things That Never Change →Academics Take Refuge In Writing →4 Types Of Luck →Equity And Commitment →Evaluating Risk Takers Using Lindy →Dependability Has Skin In The Game For Employees →Ensuring Unity Using The Rhodian Law →On Rejecting Old Business Principles →Optionality In The Trial And Error Process →Decisions In Finances Are Not Free →Let Others Win Trivial Matters →Models And The Expectation Of Customer Behavior →Money Gives You Freedom →Businesses That Can Be Replicated Quickly Are Bad →Having Financial Plans With Margins Of Error Is Essential →Inheritance With Lack Of Education Collapses →Businesses Live But Brands Prosper →Going From 0 To 1 In A Startup →Having A Single Extreme Success Is The Only Thing That Matters →History Cannot Be Used To Predict The Future In Finances →Avoid Competition At All Costs →Avoid The Extremes On Financial Plans →Bad Foundations Condemn A Company To Fail →Fast Businesses Cannot Be Limited In Their Potential Growth →Finding The Early Adopters Of Your Product →Administrators And Managers Kill A System'S Skin In The Game →Families Participate In Self Dramatization →Actually Learn From Iterating Your Product →External Constraints That Plague The Trial And Error Process In Business →Accumulation Of Hidden Risk From Business Contractors →A Need For Risk With Trial And Error →We Need To Set Limits To Our Monetary Ambitions →We Overestimate What People Think Of Our Material Belongings →We Should Think Reasonably Rather Than Rationally On Finances →We Are Too Pessimistic About Finances →We Cannot Draw Certain Conclusions From The Experience Of Successful People →We Constantly Change Our Financial Objectives →We Create Narratives Over Things We Don’T Understand To Deceive Ourselves →Transfer Of Risk In A Profession Due To Bad Accountability →Trial And Error Testing Can Occur Outside The Product Itself →The Stressor Holding Down The Recovery Period →The Uncertainty Of The Customer In Startups →The Problem With Cash Compensation →The Repelling Force From Our Call To Action →The Opportunity Of Crises →The Power Of Compounded Interest In Finances →The Client Is The Risk Taker For A Product →The Lack Of Skin In The Game In Managers →Stressors Make Us Rationalize Out Of Doing The Right Thing →Striving To Be A Monopoly →Saving Is More Important Than Earning Money →Spending Is The Opposite Of Being A Millionaire →Startups Are Not Lottery Tickets →Startups Are The Key To Innovation →Routines Accumulate Hidden Risks →Save 10% Of What You Earn →Save Money, Even If Its Not Necessary →Progress Cannot Be Evaluated Through Comfort Or Safety →Reach Will Determine The Fate Of A Business →People That Play Different Games In Finance Deceive You →Peoples’ Perspective On Money Varies By Experience →The Existence Of Static Inequality →The Emergent Intolerant Minority →The Cost Of Specialization →Opportunity Behind So Called "Risk" →People That Build Systems Require Skin In The Game →Old Religions Reinforce Rational Action →Natural And Effective Systems Are Guided By Survival Stressors →Markets Are More Complex Than The Individuals That Compose It →Misplaced Skin In The Game Of Civil Servants →Managing Risks With Bureaucracy →Intolerant Minorities Add On Complexity →Hidden Risks In Specialization →Influence Of State Scale In Inequality →Complexity Of The Collective And The Individual →Bureaucracy Breeds Hidden Risk →Archived K. M. M. →Atomic Habits →Direct Truth →Ego Is The Enemy →How To Think Like A Roman Emperor →How To Win Friends & Influence People →K. M. M. →Kapil Gupta →Letters From A Stoic →Make It Stick →Meditations →Nassim Taleb →Naval Ravikant →Psychology Of Money →Skin In The Game →The 48 Laws Of Power →The Art Of Seduction →The Bed Of Procrustes →The Great Estate Developer →The Lean Startup →The Millionaire Fastlane →The Obstacle Is The Way →The Prince →The Richest Man In Babylon →The War Of Art →Thinking, Fast And Slow →Zero To One →Stirring Interest And Desire (S-I) →Stoicism →Stressors →Success →Taboo →Thinking →Value →Variability →Via Negativa →Victim →War →Win →Wisdom →Work →Writing →Perspective →Persuasion →Pleasure →Power →Predicting →Problem →Procrastination →Products →Profit →Progress →Proving →Rationality →Reading →Reality →Recall →Repression →Resistance →Risk →Routine →Seduction →Seductive Process →Self Interest →Spectacle →Startups →Influence →Injury →Insecurity →Judgement →Knowledge →Labels →Laziness →Lindy →Luck →Management →Manipulation →Mastery →Mistake →Money →Moral →Moving In For The Kill (S-Iv) →Narratives →Nature →Obstacles →Opportunity →Overestimate →Pain →Personal Finance →Deceit →Deepening Through Extremes (S-Iii) →Density Problem →Dependence →Discipline →Downside →Drama →Education →Ego →Evaluation →Experience →Exposure →Externalities →Failure →Financial Freedom →Flag* →Flexibility →Friends →Genius →Glamor →Happiness →Hate →Humility →Ideas →Illusion →Image →Complacency →Complaint →Complexity →Conclusions →Control →Conversation →Courage →Create Pleasure And Confusion (S-Ii) →Creativity →Academia →Action →Advice →Anti-manipulation →Anti-seduction →Appreciation →Arbitrage →Argument →Arrogance →Asymmetry →Audal Project →Belief →Bias →Black Swans →Bold →Books →Business →Characters Of Seduction →Communication →0. Story →1. Introspective →2. Social →3. Knowledge →4. Management →5. Systems →For Illusions In Knowledge →For Interests In The Density Problem →For Introspection And Hard Thoughts →For Problems Related To Perception Of Academics →For Problems Themselves →For Risk Takers Vs Non Risk Takers →For The Negatives Of Employees And University Students →For The Problem Of Newspapers And Reader Memory →For Thinking About Prescriptions →For Understanding Generational Change And Maturity →For Understanding Negation And Its Uses →For Understanding The Problems That We Face When Understanding Religion And Authority →For How We Handle Praise To Other People →For Attraction By Abscence →For Complex Systems →For Creating The Git Open-Source For Knowledge →For Seneca And His Preservation Of The State →