How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

One of the clearest signs of learning is rethinking your assumptions and revising your opinions. 21 things I rethought in 2021: a thread...

How to stay poor: Prioritize looking rich over being rich.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Elon Musk Mars can wait but planet Earth cannot

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body & too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted & alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit. Naval

Play The Long Game Avoid short-term thinking. Ignore quick wins. Lasting success is like a snowball. It grows exponentially over time. Focus on making decisions that will benefit you over the long term. Cultivate patience, discipline, and the ability to delay gratification.

Elon Musk calls this “First Principles Thinking.” It involves breaking down a problem into its most fundamental components. Then building solutions from the ground up, rather than relying on analogies or existing solutions.

Michael Girdley I would find a founder who is starting the process of selling their company for ~$50M. Use my (branding, positioning, marketing, storytelling) skills to help them package it better and sell for $60M. Take 1% commission on sale price. Founder makes $9.4M. I make $600K.

"I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel." Naval

It’s only been 2 days since OpenAI revealed GPT-4o. Users are uncovering incredible capabilities that completely change how we use and interact with AI. The 12 most impressive use cases so far:

Steve Jobs final message…

Forget Your Past, Manifest Your Future

A fertility rate below 1.6 means 50% less new people after three generations, say 100 years. Below 1.2 means an 80% drop. The U.S. is at 1.64. China, Japan, Poland, Spain all below 1.2. South Korea is at 0.7—96% drop. Mass extinction numbers.

i’m really sorry but life is 1000x better when your things and experiences are aesthetically pleasing and i dislike that this is perceived as superficial! beautiful stuff makes life worth living

Napoleon was unstoppable because he understood the paradox of prep

Sam Altman on how to start a startup: