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A1. Introspective
Sharpness Leaves But Learning Stays
Action Is Needed To Evaluate The Procrastination Filter
Everything Starts From 1% Improvements
We Feel Pleasure From Anger
Hating An Individual Makes You Loose Perspective
Hating Something Is Avoiding To Arbitrage
In Order To Be Great, You Need To Play Like The Greats
Mental Clarity, Courage, And The Influence Of Our Ills
Evaluate Yourself Against Your Past
Pride Blunts Our Ability To Grow
Rewarding Good Actions
Take Actual Action To Arbitrage A Situation
Being Misguided By Our Own Narratives
Environment Affects Your Disposition To Activities
Master Your Disposition Rather Than Your Surroundings
We Live Under Delusions Of Control
We Take The Path Of Least Resistance
Overestimating The Obstacles Of The Present
Intolerance Towards Inconsistencies
Reality Stressors Are More Important Than Reading Stressors
We Understand Humility As A False Idea
True Philosophy Is To Be Practiced When It'S Less Convenient
Mistakes Get Worse Once You Try To Correct Them
Reducing The Downsides Of Pleasures
Labeling Idiots And Geniuses
Our Character Augments Itself When Successful
Procrastination Must Be Embraced
Stop Complaining About What You Perceive As Lacking In The World
Dealing With Pains
Injury Is Bearable Through Excellence Of Character
The Tendency To Find A Scapegoat For Our Problems
We Do Not Control Ourselves When Busy
Remember To See Through Verbose Language
The Need To Put Down Amazing People When Complementing Them
Do Not Allow Pain To Dominate Your Character
Do Not Let The Transgression Of Another Infect Your Character
The Deception Of The Insincere Question
Creating Conclusions From First Impressions
Avoid Developing A Pseudo Passion In Your Area
Advance Through Actions And Don'T Look To Prove Yourself
Living In The Present Implies Courage
Weakness Is Seen In Our Unsettlement By Something External
Do Not Label Externalities As Good Or Bad
Obstacles As Opportunities
Protecting Your Character From Crisis
There Is No Virtue In Enduring Things We Don'T Feel
No Injury Lasts As Long As The Self Inflicted
Reading Books And The Density Problem
The Importance Of Feeling Lost
Insults Hurt Because They Have A Degree Of Truth
Becoming Truly Free
Causes Trump Statistics
Good, Bad, Wrong, Right Are Second Order Labels
Handling Death And Avoiding Lament
The Brain Is Most Creative When You Don'T Tell It What To Do
Is This Alive Time Or Dead Time
Keep Your Projects Out Of The Conversation
Let Go Of Your Legacy To Create A New One
Use Whatever Befalls Us In A Wise Manner
Discipline Advice Suffers Density Problems
A2. Social
The Appeal Of Danger And Rakey Behavior
Use Mirrors To Make People Feel Comfortable In Their Acting
Avoid Being The Victim Of The Insecurity Of A Master
People Don'T Learn From What They Hear, But What They Experience
Seduction Depends On Suggestion
Surround With The Sensational And Scandalous
Develop A Genuine Interest For Real Friends
Use Existing Enemies To Your Benefit
Guard Your Reputations As Your Life Depends On It
The Problem With Unabashed Honesty
A Counter For Selective Manipulation
Friendships That End Have A Sucker In Them
Gain Control By Making Others Feel Strong
Keep People Dependent On You
Loyalty And Following Being Asymetric
Seduction By The Dandy
Friends Are Corrupted By Undeserved Power
Poetization Of Your Presence
Revulsion Of Acting Like A Brute
Selective Honesty Distracts People
Convincing Involves Communicating Their Interests
Repulsion Of The Moralizer
Seducing By Becoming An Ideal Lover
Show The Little Things
Suspense And Drama Buildup
Do Not Provoke Others With Your Wording
Taking Credit Is Often More Important Than The Invention Itself
Control The Complaints Of Others
Make Masters Feel Superior To You
The Appeal Of Realizing Others' Fantasies
The Pursuer Is Pursued
Win Through Actions, Never Through Argument
Associating Your Image To The Glamorous Past
Protect Your Reputation Against Rumors
Seduction By The Charismatic
Seduction By The Coquette
Send Mixed Signals
Stir Up The Transgressions And Taboo
Valuing A Person Through Impressions
Carefully Tailor Honesty
Gaining The Upper Hand On Liars
Giving Criticism Is Useless
Isolating The Victim
Outshine The Failing Master
Seduction By The Charmer
The Antithesis Between Charm And Nerdiness
An Authentic Smile Causes A Nice Mood
Bore Of An Inability Of Self-Sacrifice
Give People Something To Tunnel Vision On
Thread Carefully If You Are Known To Be Deceitful
Throw Enemies Off With Patterns
True Generosity Is Not An Investment Strategy
Always Say Less Than Necessary
Avoid Trying To Convince Charlatans
Bait Others To Come To You
When Abscence Is More Than Presence
Play Into Another'S Feeling Of Superiority
Power In Words
Discussions Can Never Be Won
Show And Prove Yourself
Using Spiritual Lures
Your Reputation Is Harmed Most By What You Say To Defend It
"I Think" Detracts Value From Your Word
Keep An Air Of Mystery In Action
The Art Of Insinuation
The Seductiveness Of The Highs And Lows
Covering Lies With Constant Speech
Mastering The Bold Move
Turn Enemies Into The Best Of Friends
Avoid The Unhappy And Unlucky
Mixing Pleasure With Pain
Start Conversation With Agreements
Immediately Admit When You Are Wrong
Open Yourself In Order For Effective Seduction
Associate With Things Considered High-Value By The Other
Make Cinema Out Of Your Idea Or Exposition
People Judging Others To Be Arrogant Or Intelligent
Conceal Your Intentions
The Rarer Or Harder To Get The More Desired
Keeping Up The Excitement Of Others
Take The Credit From People That Came Before You
Breaking Seduction By Having No Sense Of Time
Open Through Lack Of Completeness
A3. Knowledge
The Problem With Copying The Habits Of Geniuses
Rationality Is Independent Of Narrative Explanations
Intervals In Spaced Repetition
On The Difference Between The Fool, Nerd, And Wise
Recognizing Faults In Thinking
The Dangers Of The Failure Of Perspective
Verbal Threats Lack Skin In The Game To Be Significant
4 Types Of Luck
Being Rational About Rationality
Addiction Has Skin In The Game
Let There Be A Difference Between You And The Books
Conventional Learning Is Often Wrong
Follow The Contrary Of A Role Model
The Perils Of Modern Philosophy
The Problems With Soulless Writing
The Scope Of Knowing Knowledge
Glamor Often Deceives Us About The Thinking Of Others
Ideas That Survive Promote Survival
The Misunderstanding Of Learning And Training
Hidden Craziness Of Peer Reviews
Implying Arrogance When Showing Humility
Most Of What We Understand Are Approximations To The Truth
Private Life That Conflicts With Intellectual Opinion
Do Not Trust The Advice From Advice-Givers.
Learning From The Economy Or From Economic Theory
More Information Leads To More Delusions
Scientific Ideas And The Lindy Effect
Detecting Fraudulent Behavior
Real Books Cannot Be Summarized
The Inability To Learn From What You Know
There Is Natural Admiration To True Virtue
Aphorisms Force You To Change Reading Habits
Avoid Overrating Your Experiences
Retrieval And Spaced Repetition
The Predictive Problem Of Newspapers
Academics Take Refuge In Writing
Admiration Should Go Towards Things That Never Change
Differences Between Our Ideal And Reality On Human Behavior
Everything Is Straightforward Until You Face Risk
Vandalism Of Ideas, Prostitution Of The Intellect
What Is Irrational Under Uncertainty
Winning Arguments And Winning
Distinguishing Between The Wrong And The Mistake
Do Not Treat Your Inferior Like You Wouldn'T Like Your Superior To Treat You
The Rereading Illusion
We Often Try To Override Our Natural Inclinations Without Trying To Work With Them
The 4Th Type Of Luck
The Asymmetric Risks And Outputs Of Professions
A4. Management
Decisions In Finances Are Not Free
Avoid The Extremes On Financial Plans
Dependability Has Skin In The Game For Employees
Evaluating Risk Takers Using Lindy
We Constantly Change Our Financial Objectives
Reach Will Determine The Fate Of A Business
Save 10% Of What You Earn
We Create Narratives Over Things We DonβT Understand To Deceive Ourselves
Actually Learn From Iterating Your Product
On Rejecting Old Business Principles
Routines Accumulate Hidden Risks
Businesses Live But Brands Prosper
Models And The Expectation Of Customer Behavior
Money Gives You Freedom
Striving To Be A Monopoly
The Power Of Compounded Interest In Finances
The Uncertainty Of The Customer In Startups
Transfer Of Risk In A Profession Due To Bad Accountability
A Need For Risk With Trial And Error
Save Money, Even If Its Not Necessary
History Cannot Be Used To Predict The Future In Finances
Saving Is More Important Than Earning Money
The Lack Of Skin In The Game In Managers
Ensuring Unity Using The Rhodian Law
Going From 0 To 1 In A Startup
Optionality In The Trial And Error Process
Accumulation Of Hidden Risk From Business Contractors
Families Participate In Self Dramatization
We Overestimate What People Think Of Our Material Belongings
External Constraints That Plague The Trial And Error Process In Business
Fast Businesses Cannot Be Limited In Their Potential Growth
Having Financial Plans With Margins Of Error Is Essential
We Need To Set Limits To Our Monetary Ambitions
Administrators And Managers Kill A System'S Skin In The Game
Startups Are Not Lottery Tickets
People That Play Different Games In Finance Deceive You
Stressors Make Us Rationalize Out Of Doing The Right Thing
We Are Too Pessimistic About Finances
We Cannot Draw Certain Conclusions From The Experience Of Successful People
We Should Think Reasonably Rather Than Rationally On Finances
Inheritance With Lack Of Education Collapses
Let Others Win Trivial Matters
The Client Is The Risk Taker For A Product
Bad Foundations Condemn A Company To Fail
Finding The Early Adopters Of Your Product
Trial And Error Testing Can Occur Outside The Product Itself
Avoid Competition At All Costs
Businesses That Can Be Replicated Quickly Are Bad
Having A Single Extreme Success Is The Only Thing That Matters
The Opportunity Of Crises
Progress Cannot Be Evaluated Through Comfort Or Safety
The Repelling Force From Our Call To Action
A5. Systems
Misplaced Skin In The Game Of Civil Servants
Opportunity Behind So Called "Risk"
Markets Are More Complex Than The Individuals That Compose It
The Cost Of Specialization
People That Build Systems Require Skin In The Game
Managing Risks With Bureaucracy
Natural And Effective Systems Are Guided By Survival Stressors
The Emergent Intolerant Minority
Hidden Risks In Specialization
Complexity Of The Collective And The Individual
Old Religions Reinforce Rational Action
Influence Of State Scale In Inequality
Intolerant Minorities Add On Complexity
Bureaucracy Breeds Hidden Risk
Books; References
Archived K. M. M.
Atomic Habits
Ego Is The Enemy
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
Direct Truth
How To Think Like A Roman Emperor
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Appreciation
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Arrogance
Asymmetry
Belief
Bias
Business
Characters Of Seduction
Communication
Complexity
Conclusions
Control
Courage
Create Pleasure And Confusion (S-Ii)
Deepening Through Extremes (S-Iii)
Dependence
Discipline
Downside
Education
Evaluation
Failure
Financial Freedom
Flexibility
Happiness
Hate
Image
Judgement
Labels
Laziness
Lindy
Luck
Moving In For The Kill (S-Iv)
Obstacles
Opportunity
Pain
Perspective
Persuasion
Pleasure
Power
Problem
Procrastination
Profit
Rationality
Reading
Reality
Recall
Risk
Routine
Seductive Process
Stirring Interest And Desire (S-I)
Success
Taboo
Top Down
Variability
Win
Wisdom
Writing
Academia
Anti-manipulation
Anti-seduction
Argument
Audal Project
Black Swans
Bold
Books
Complacency
Complaint
Conversation
Creativity
Deceit
Density Problem
Drama
Ego
Experience
Exposure
Externalities
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Friends
Genius
Glamor
Humility
Ideas
Illusion
Inconsistencies
Influence
Injury
Insecurity
Knowledge
Management
Manipulation
Mastery
Mistake
Money
Moral
Narratives
Nature
Optionality
Overestimate
Personal Finance
Predicting
Pretense Of Knowledge
Products
Progress
Proving
Repression
Resistance
Seduction
Self Interest
Spectacle
Startups
Stoicism
Stressors
Thinking
Value
Via Negativa
Victim
War
Work
πStory
I β The Indomitable Human Spirit
S β Hoover's Plane And The Mechanic
S β Khazars And The Search For The Ideal Religion
S β The Husband And The Six Flaws And Flowers
S β Rockefeller Propelling His Employees Further
S β The Fox, The Wolf, And The Exposure To Stressors
S β Wesson And The Art Of Making A Client Work For Their Product
S β Benjamin Franklin's Letters And The Absence Of Credit
S β Epictetus, Pain, And Excellence Of Character
S β Roman Slaves Taking Care Of Finances
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For Attraction By Abscence
For Illusions In Knowledge
For Interests In The Density Problem
For Risk Takers Vs Non Risk Takers
For Seneca And His Preservation Of The State
For The Problem Of Newspapers And Reader Memory
For Thinking About Prescriptions
For Understanding Generational Change And Maturity
For Understanding The Problems That We Face When Understanding Religion And Authority
For Complex Systems
For Creating The Git Open-Source For Knowledge
For How We Handle Praise To Other People
For Introspection And Hard Thoughts
For Problems Related To Perception Of Academics
For Problems Themselves
For The Negatives Of Employees And University Students
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