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Protocols Over Willpower

Published on: 06/11/2026

Issue 54: What Andrew Huberman's Protocols gets right about light, sleep, focus and stress, and the five changes with the biggest return on effort.

Your Only Real Opponent

Published on: 03/09/2026

Issue 51: The fiercest competition happens inside your own head. What Timothy Gallwey’s Inner Game teaches us about performing under pressure.

Master of None

Published on: 02/07/2026

Issue 48: Too many interests isn’t the liability you’ve been told. Why range, not narrow focus, tends to win in a complex, unpredictable world.

None of It Matters

Published on: 08/04/2026

Issue 44: Chamath Palihapitiya on holding ambition and contentment at once, curiosity as an edge, and splitting decisions into two portfolios.

Design Your Inputs, Don’t Leave Your Outcomes to Chance

Published on: 19/03/2026

Issue 43: How the architecture of your morning shapes everything that follows, and Arthur Brooks’ framework for what happiness actually is.

The Trajectory of Systems: Are You Priming for Success?

Published on: 05/02/2026

Issue 41: Habits revisited. Why your baseline, trajectory and identity matter more than the finish line, with practical tools to build systems that stick.

Why Your New Year’s Resolutions are Built to Fail

Published on: 04/12/2025

Issue 39: A better way to plan. End-of-year review frameworks, the annual planning templates I use, and a 90-day sprint to replace resolutions.

The Masquerade of Intellectual Work

Published on: 13/11/2025

Issue 38: Why consumption feels like progress, and a field manual for converting learning into action and reclaiming your agency.

Complexity is Procrastination in Disguise

Published on: 02/10/2025

Issue 36: Why the simplest path is usually the most effective, and how to build a bias to action instead of letting the world happen to you.

The Return to Agency: How to Reclaim Your Power

Published on: 30/07/2025

Issue 33: Why what really matters is the incremental improvement of your position. Stop letting the world happen to you and start shaping it.

Environment Design vs. Willpower

Published on: 10/07/2025

Issue 32: Why your surroundings are the "invisible hand" shaping your success. Learn to stop fighting the moment and start leveraging your space.

The Stoic’s Guide to Essentialism

Published on: 19/06/2025

Issue 31: How the four virtues of Stoicism provide the foundation for high performance. Why the best leaders focus on patterns rather than symptoms.

A New Framework for Money and Success

Published on: 08/05/2025

Issue 29: Shifting your financial relationship and building a personal success engine. Featuring Roger Federer’s radical take on "practicable" talent.

The Naval Framework: Navigating the Path to Success

Published on: 17/04/2025

Issue 28: Why the best entrepreneurs treat life like a game of leverage. Inside: the Build vs. Buy debate and why ability alone is never enough.

The Tension Between Who You Are and Who You Love

Published on: 06/03/2025

Issue 25: The internal conflict of growth within relationships, and how to treat your connections as levers to improve your position in the world.

Grit: The Competitive Advantage of High Pain Tolerance

Published on: 20/02/2025

Issue 24: Why your ability to endure discomfort determines your ceiling, and how to use grit to achieve your goals and minimise life's "what-ifs."

Updating Your Model: Markets and Mindsets for 2025

Published on: 23/01/2025

Issue 22: A guide to the market landscape for 2025, and why Richard Feynman’s approach to un-becoming is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The End-of-Year Toolkit: Reviews, Templates, and Reading

Published on: 12/12/2024

Issue 21: Everything you need to close the year strong, including review and planning templates, a reading list, and why resolutions are a trap.

The Social Media Ban and the War on Attention

Published on: 28/11/2024

Issue 20: The Australian Government's move to ban social media for under-16s, and why your anxiety is the primary bottleneck for your creativity.

Default to Optimism: Lessons from the Arena

Published on: 14/11/2024

Issue 19: Why Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" is the ultimate mindset, the return of Donald Trump, and the power of positive defaults.

How to Hack Your Dopamine for Deep Work

Published on: 31/10/2024

Issue 18: Using brain chemistry to beat procrastination, plus the psychology of trading and why the best winners optimise for decades, not days.

How to Optimise Your Portfolio and Your Mind

Published on: 17/10/2024

Issue 17: Position sizing like a pro with the Kelly Criterion, five essential gratitude practices, and the power of radical self-discipline.

Upgrade Your Thinking: Risk Models and Mental Tools

Published on: 03/10/2024

Issue 16: Using mental models to navigate uncertainty, Howard Marks on what risk really is, and why cynicism is a liability, not an asset.

Overcoming Paralysis: Fear Setting and Financial Conviction

Published on: 19/09/2024

Issue 15: Why Tim Ferriss' fear setting is a prerequisite for action, and how to apply Stanley Druckenmiller's approach to risk in your portfolio.

The Truth About Growth Mindsets and Market Pivots

Published on: 05/09/2024

Issue 14: Debunking growth mindset clichés and the psychology of success avoidance, plus surviving September volatility and the first rate cut.

Have You Outgrown the Person You Used to Be?

Published on: 22/08/2024

Issue 13: Why your ego is the primary enemy of progress and how to audit your beliefs, plus R-multiples, the metric that matters for your trading system.

Principles, Values, and the Death of the 60/40 Portfolio

Published on: 13/06/2024

Issue 10: The crucial difference between principles and values, how to build your own, and whether the traditional 60/40 portfolio is dead.

Finding Purpose and Market Misconceptions

Published on: 30/05/2024

Issue 9: Why economic data and public sentiment are miles apart, and a framework for finding purpose when the outside world feels chaotic.

A Goal Setting Framework and Copper Highs

Published on: 16/05/2024

Issue 8: A framework for setting and actually hitting your goals, the copper supply squeeze explained, and why others' success is worth celebrating.

Applying the 80/20 Principle and Gold Highs

Published on: 02/05/2024

Issue 7: How to apply the 80/20 principle to your business and life, and what gold's surge to all-time highs tells us about inflation and instability.

Implementing Deliberate Practice and a Strong US Dollar Wreaks Havoc

Published on: 18/04/2024

Issue 6: A step-by-step guide to deliberate practice for elite performance, the fallout of a strong US dollar, and one-way versus two-way door decisions.

Breaking Cycles: From Bad Habits to Inflationary Oil

Published on: 04/04/2024

Issue 5: A framework for forming good habits and breaking bad ones, and what is driving the current surge in oil and how it ripples through the economy.