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Published September 8, 2025
The author reflects on how making quality coffee taught them the value of skill and usefulness, drawing parallels between coffee’s evolution and personal growth. Becoming useful like coffee opens doors and creates opportunities in unexpected ways.
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Published September 1, 2025
The author compares early farming’s impact on humans to modern full-time jobs, suggesting both trade freedom and health for food security and income. He advocates for flexible, self-directed work as a way to balance earning with personal life and meaningful projects.
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Published August 19, 2025
The author shares how AI has enabled them to quickly build games and apps, including a Google Analytics alternative and an iOS transcription app, despite limited prior experience. They highlight AI's value in helping beginners create functional products fast while stressing the need for human judgment to improve and manage AI limitations.
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Published October 29, 2024
Charlie Munger attributes his success to gaining entry-level knowledge across multiple fields and applying it, which creates valuable "emergent properties" similar to how mixing copper and tin creates stronger bronze. This multidisciplinary approach can lead to unexpected benefits in life and work.
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Published June 16, 2024
The author shares how taking thoughtful risks, such as leaving a stable job for a startup, fueled their career growth and personal development. They recommend key books on risk management and mindset to help readers take smarter, more informed risks in life and entrepreneurship.
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Published June 10, 2024
To find good project ideas, first list your skills and experiences, then seek external inspiration from sources like others’ successes, conversations, or tools like ChatGPT, and finally, research the market to assess demand and reduce risk before investing time and money.
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Published June 2, 2024
The author challenges the common "vitamins vs. painkillers" product framing, showing that what seems like a nice-to-have "vitamin" product can be life-saving for some users depending on their situation. They encourage building products that serve different needs, as value depends on context.
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Published May 24, 2024
As kids, the author and cousin started a snow shoveling business during a big snowstorm, learning practical skills like sales, pricing, and customer service by offering fair-priced driveway clearing to neighbors—showing that starting a simple business depends on doing great work, not age or background.
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Published April 23, 2024
The frequency illusion, a cognitive bias where you notice things more often after encountering them once, helped the author identify unexpected promotion opportunities for their product, leading to increased sales. This shows that some biases can be useful in recognizing valuable chances after launching a product.
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Published April 8, 2024
The author shares their experience writing an unfinished book on Microsoft Azure, reflecting on missed opportunities for recognition and income, and how changing views on Azure's complexity stopped its completion. The story serves as a reminder to finish and publish work before inspiration fades.
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Published March 25, 2024
The author shares how gambling on the Super Bowl helped him quickly learn American Football and boost his bar tips, illustrating that having real stakes ("skin in the game") accelerates learning and critical thinking. He also warns to assess the credibility of information based on the speaker’s risk exposure.
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Published March 4, 2024
This content contrasts early-stage venture capital startups aiming for billion-dollar exits with small, bootstrapped businesses that focus on diverse income streams and sustainable lifestyles. It highlights the low success rate of VC-backed firms and suggests entrepreneurs benefit more from experimenting with many ideas than committing to one high-risk bet.
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Published February 26, 2024
The author shares two key lessons: political arguments often harm relationships and prevent enjoyment, while taking sides can lead to financial loss and division. The takeaway is that mixing politics with daily life or business, like in Big Tech, can create unnecessary conflict and alienate people.
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Published February 5, 2024
The author shares a personal story about recognizing moments when they are about to take significant risks, emphasizing the importance of consciously deciding to push forward despite uncertainty. This mindset helped them grow in swimming, management, and entrepreneurship, highlighting how facing these moments can unlock new personal strength.
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Published January 29, 2024
Big tech companies are hiring fewer engineers due to AI increasing productivity and rising competition lowering barriers to entry, leading to layoffs and talent loss. Meanwhile, tech skills remain valuable, but diversifying into media, entrepreneurship, or traditional businesses can provide more stable income and opportunities outside big tech.
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Published January 15, 2024
Over two years, the author earned $300K online by creating and teaching paid courses, building community-driven software, and coaching, gaining skills in sales, marketing, and product development. This journey improved their value and freedom, showing the concrete benefits of starting internet entrepreneurship.
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Published January 1, 2024
Setting goals effectively depends on clearly understanding and connecting with your real reasons or "Whys" behind them, as this motivates focused action and achievement. Without meaningful reasons, even SMART goals and good plans often fail.
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Published December 18, 2023
"Married at First Sight" experts with PhDs have a low success rate (one in five couples lasting) likely because they focus on idealized matches rather than core compatibility, unlike a non-expert matchmaker who prioritizes family background and key life values, leading to better outcomes.
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Published December 11, 2023
Mid-life crises often arise around age 40 due to psychological awareness of aging, biological muscle loss, and societal comparisons of achievements. Avoiding comparison and focusing on what truly matters can help manage this period and improve well-being.
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Published December 4, 2023
Charlie Munger’s key idea is to become multi-disciplinary by learning basic principles across fields to solve problems better. Using this approach and the internet, individuals can build reusable assets like newsletters or networks, enabling entrepreneurial independence and practical skill application.
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