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