Curated Long Form Reads

Sam Altman

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Pure Independence

A simple formula for a pretty nice life is independence plus purpose.

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Defining Aggregators

Building on Aggregation Theory, this provides a precise definition of the characteristics of aggregators, and a classification system based on suppliers. Plus, how to think about aggregator regulat…

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The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works

Charlie Munger offers a very wise operating system for leading a good life in his 2007 USC Law School Commencement Address.

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Cognitive bias cheat sheet

Because thinking is hard.

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What Can We Do About Our Bias?

A 4-step roadmap for developing an always-on, honest relationship to bias.

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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)

The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...

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Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance

When it comes to unlocking great outcomes, avoiding stupidity is more reliable than seeking brilliance.

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The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger

In The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, Charlie Munger explains why we behave the way we do. This is a transcript of the fully updated talk.

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The Pursuit of Worldly Wisdom

Charlie Munger explains how worldly wisdom can help you go further and faster than experts. You don't need to outwork if you can outsmart.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it.

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How to Do Great Work

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The Psychology of Persuasion

The best summary of Robert Cialidini's Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion —the best-selling book on the psychology of persuasion ever.

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The Ultimate Guide to Unstoppable Motivation

The Pacific Crest Trail is renowned as one of the most arduous—and sometimes dangerous—hiking trails in America. Every summer, thousands of intrepid walkers set off on the trail, beginning in spring and knowing they won’t arrive at the Canadian border until five months later. For most people, this sounds like a hellish feat of endurance. For University of Missouri professor Kennon Sheldon, it sounded like a perfect opportunity for a psychological experiment.

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Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Transcript) by Charlie Munger

In The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, Charlie Munger explains why we behave the way we do. This is a transcript of the fully updated talk.

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Tell Better Stories by Jeremy Connell-Waite | Business Storytelling

Nine Principles of Better Stories: A free resource to help business leaders tell better stories.

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‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups

Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.

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Frugal vs. Independent

Here’s an important distinction about people who spend less than they earn.

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The 100 Best Bits of Advice Ever Shared on First Round Review

We combed The Review archives for a special compilation of the 100 very best advice published on our digital pages over the last 10 years from folks like Stewart Butterfield, Claire Hughes Johnson and Alexis Ohanian.

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Alignment: The Key to Success Nobody Ever Taught You

I spend a lot of time thinking about this simple idea: The person who aligns themselves with the general principles of the world goes further and faster than the person who doesn't.

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Episode 03: What Nobody Tells You About Getting Rich (ft. Morgan Housel)

About the Episode Everybody wants to get rich. But is the pursuit of wealth really about the money, or are we actually chasing something much deeper? These are just a couple of the fun ideas I toss around in this episode with Morgan Housel, New York Times Bestselling author of the smash hit, The Psychology of Money, which has sold more than four million copies worldwide. We’ll dig deep to uncover our relationship with money, answer the timeless question “Will getting rich make me happy?” and share some of Morgan’s best investing tips. So put away your spreadsheets, step away from the credit card, and for god’s sake stop trading crypto for five seconds, and settle in for this one. We might just make you filthy fucking rich. Morgan Housel Quotes From the Episode The wealthiest I ever actually felt in my life is when I had $5,000 in the bank. I'm not interested in anything that's not sustainable—not friendships, not investment strategies, not careers. If I can't do it forever, I'm not interested. With every dollar of wealth that you gain comes a few pennies of what I would …

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Wild Minds

Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s best marathon runner, was being held in a staging room during the 2021 Olympic Games in…

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The Feynman Learning Technique

Supercharge your learning and become smarter by using the Feynman Technique. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.

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Charlie Munger | Acquired Podcast

The complete podcast interview (and transcript!) with Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger

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MindTools | Home

Essential skills for an excellent career

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The Smart-Talk Trap

The key to success in business is action. But in most companies, people are rewarded for talking—and the longer, louder, and more confusingly, the better. The good news is, there are five strategies that can help you avoid the trap.

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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz

We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.

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Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization

Is everyone working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they should? Maybe this is why.

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Write Simply

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The Need to Read

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Your Job Is Not Your Job - LinkedIn Speaker Series - 1/3

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How to Beat Procrastination — Wait But Why

Part 2. Where does a procrastinator go wrong and how can you actually improve your procrastination habits?

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Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth) - Wait But Why

We all care way too much what other people think of us. Here's why.

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Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment

"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern

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The Imperfectionist: The four-hour work day

​ ​ ​ The US paperback edition of my book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals is out now – see here for purchase options! – and the Canadian edition, out the week a...

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25 of My Favorite Books, Articles, Gadgets, Tech, and More (So Far in 2023) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

These 25 items are the most-clicked links from my weekly 5-Bullet Friday newsletter so far this year, which I then further curated for this blog post.

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Legendary 86-Year-Old Physical Therapist Dr. Shirley Sahrmann: Key Exercises w/ Instructions

My interview with Dr. Shirley Sahrmann: https://tim.blog/2023/08/04/dr-shirley-sahrmann/ [00:00] Start [3:22] Standing to quadruped [5:13] Facedown exercises [9:35] Faceup exercises [13:37] Shoulder exercise [16:56] Standing back to wall [18:57] Bonus: Modified quadruped [19:42] Bonus: Getting up and down from floor Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Physical Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her bachelor’s degree in physical therapy and her masters and doctorate degrees in neurobiology from Washington University, where she joined the physical therapy faculty and became the first director of their PhD program in movement science. Shirley became a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association in 1986 and in 1998 was selected to receive the Mary McMillan Award, the Association’s highest honor. She is a recipient of the Association’s Marion Williams Research Award, the Lucy Blair Service Award, the Kendall Practice Award, and the Inaugural John H.P. Maley Lecturer Award. She has also received Washington University's Distinguished Faculty Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award, the School of Medicine’s Inaugural Distinguished Clinician Award, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Indianapolis. She has also received the Bowling-Erhard Orthopedic Clinical Practice Award from the Orthopaedic Academy of the APTA. She has served on the APTA Board of Directors and as president of the Missouri Chapter. Her first book, Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes, has been translated into seven languages. Her second book, Movement System Impairment Syndromes of the Cervical and Thoracic Spines and the Extremities, has been equally influential in promoting movement diagnoses. Please enjoy! Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Follow the Tim Ferriss Podcast: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss Blog: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/

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Your Body, Your Health, and Your Happiness - Arthur C. Brooks

The pandemic has brought life to a standstill for many, not just economically, but physically, as well. Polling data reveals that Americans are plagued by a state of inactivity. Combine that with the usual indulgences of the holiday season, and you can bet that come New Year’s Day, there will be a record number of … Your Body, Your Health, and Your Happiness Read More »

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The Four Idols: Money, Power, Pleasure, & Fame | The Curiosity Chronicle

The Curiosity Chronicle has quickly become one of the most popular newsletters for growth-minded individuals in the world. Each week, subscribers receive a deep dive that covers topics ranging from growth and decision-making to business, finance, startups, and technology. In addition, subscribers receive The Friday Five, a weekly newsletter with five ideas curated to spark curiosity headed into the weekend.

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Remains of the Day

The blog and personal website of Eugene Wei

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The Art of Journaling: How To Start Journaling, Benefits of Journaling, and More

Journaling is not just a little thing you do to pass the time, to write down your memories—though it can be—it’s a strategy that has helped brilliant, powerful and wise people become better at what they do.

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Derek Sivers

I’ve been a musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and TED speaker.

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The Next Next Job, a framework for making big career decisions

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Stratechery by Ben Thompson

On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.

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Collab Blog

Collab Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.

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Explanation Effect: Why You Should Always Teach What You Learn

I don’t know what I think until I write it down.” ― Joan Didion

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Why Software Is Eating the World | Andreessen Horowitz

Software is eating the world. More than 10 years after the peak of the 1990s dot-com bubble, a dozen or so new Internet companies like Facebook and Twitter are sparking controversy in Silicon Valley, due to their rapidly growing private …

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The Economic Case for Generative AI and Foundation Models | Andreessen Horowitz

With generative AI, we’re already seeing use cases with orders-of-magnitude improvement in time, cost, and performance over previous AI waves.

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The Imperfectionist: The four-hour work day

​ ​ ​ The US paperback edition of my book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals is out now – see here for purchase options! – and the Canadian edition, out the week a...

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Finding Fulfillment

What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploration leads to a framework I've used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.

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The Art and Science of Spending Money

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once nearly died of a heart attack.

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The Age of AI has begun

Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it.

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Generative AI: A Creative New World

Applications Here are some of the applications we are excited about. There are far more than we have captured on this page, and we are enthralled by the creative applications that founders and developers are dreaming up.

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The Generative AI Revolution in Games

To understand how radically gaming is about to be transformed by Generative AI, look no further than this recent Twitter post by @emmanuel_2m. In this post he explores using Stable Diffusion + Dreambooth, popular 2D Generative AI models, to generate images of potions for a hypothetical game.

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Getting Wealthy vs. Staying Wealthy

Good investing is not necessarily about making good decisions. It's about consistently not screwing up. There are a million ways to get wealthy, and plenty of books on how to do so. But there's only one way to stay wealthy: some combination of frugality and paranoia. And that's a topic we don't discuss enough.

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Outpace - Secrets To Success: Getting Hired at the Best Paying Tech Jobs

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Why Strategic Thinkers Like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Embrace the Rule of Things That Will Never Change

Even though Amazon is, at its core, a technology company, Jeff Bezos built Amazon by focusing on things that don't change. And constantly seeks to improve its delivery of those things. I very frequently get the question: "What's going to change in the next 10 years?"

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7 Reasons Why Emotional Intelligence Is One Of The Fastest-Growing Job Skills

The awareness that emotional intelligence is an important job skill, in some cases even surpassing technical ability, has been growing in recent years.

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How to Create a Perennial Bestseller

His books are used by many NFL teams, including the Seahawks and Patriots, and was read by members of the Warriors on their way to NBA championship in 2017. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and has appeared everywhere from the Columbia Journalism Review to Fast Company.

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There's a Specific Kind of Joy We've Been Missing

Dr. Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton focused on how people find motivation and meaning in daily life. In late June, over 15,000 vaccinated people packed in to watch the Foo Fighters reopen Madison Square Garden.

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The Munger Operating System: A Life That Works

In 2007, Charlie Munger gave the commencement address at USC Law School, opening his speech by saying, "Well, no doubt many of you are wondering why the speaker is so old. Well, the answer is obvious: He hasn't died yet." Fortunately for us, Munger has kept on ticking.

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1,000 True Fans? Try 100 - Andreessen Horowitz

More than a decade ago, editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called " 1,000 True Fans ," predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living off their creations, whether an artist, musician, author, or entrepreneur.

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Escape Velocity: Building a Career Beyond Your Job

Escape velocity is defined as " the minimum speed that an object at a given distance from a gravitating body must have so that it will continue to move away from the body instead of orbiting about it." (ref) When you meet a stranger in Silicon Valley, the first question they ask after your name is, "Where do you work?"

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Who Will Build Consumers a Debt Dashboard? - Andreessen Horowitz

This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news . This month, President Biden cancelled nearly $3B of student debt for specific categories of students, in an effort to provide relief for the growing burden of student debt.

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2020 Letter to Shareholders

To our shareowners: In Amazon's 1997 letter to shareholders, our first, I talked about our hope to create an "enduring franchise," one that would reinvent what it means to serve customers by unlocking the internet's power. I noted that Amazon had grown from having 158 employees to 614, and that we had surpassed 1.5 million customer accounts.

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Life Changing Economic Theories, Applied to Personal Finance

My parents always insisted that I should make economics a core part of what I learnt in school. So when I went to Ngee Ann as a Mass Communication student, I absolutely disappointed them. That said, it's never too late to start learning.

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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021

Skip to Content This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year's most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are already changing our lives, while others are still a few years off. Below, you'll find a brief description along with a link to a feature article that probes each technology in detail.

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Prediction: The future of CX

Companies of all stripes have invested heavily in tools and technologies to help them understand their customers more deeply and to gain the advantages of superior customer experience (CX). Yet as leaders strive to form a more complete picture of customer preferences and behaviors, they continue to rely on aging survey-based measurement systems that for decades have formed the backbone of CX efforts.

Write Like an Amazonian

Use fewer than 30 words per sentence. Due to the fact that → because Lacked the ability to → could not We made the on-time delivery rate much higher. → We increased the on-time delivery rate by 15bps, from 97.10% to 97.25%.

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Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe

In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world's most successful founder-CEOs. Along with his co-founder and brother John, he built online payments company Stripe into a $36 billion behemoth in a decade. (Patrick and John hail from Ireland, continuing the hallowed tradition of Irish immigrants making it big in America.)

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The Big Question: Are You Better Than Yesterday?

Big goals? Learn to think small. (Photo: H. Koppdelaney) The following is a guest post from Chad Fowler, CTO of InfoEther, Inc. He spends much of his time solving hard problems for customers in the Ruby computer language. He is also co-organizer of RubyConf and RailsConf, where I first met him in person.

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Double Loop Learning: Download New Skills and Information into Your Brain

We're taught single loop learning from the time we are in grade school, but there's a better way. Double loop learning is the quickest and most efficient way to learn anything that you want to "stick." *** So, you've done the work necessary to have an opinion, learned the mental models, and considered how you make decisions.

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India, Jio, and the Four Internets

One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China's Great Firewall, started 23 years ago, which effectively cut China off from most Western services. That the U.S.

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