Entrepreneurship
Don't Pick a Side: Be a Specialized Generalist
Should you go deep in one thing or spread across many? Tim Ferriss calls it a false choice. Be a specialized generalist: combine a few skills that rarely go together, add communication as a multiplier, and pick projects that leave you with skills and relationships even if they fail.
13 Books, Read in Order: Dan Martell's Staged Reading Plan
Dan Martell's reading list is a sequence, not a pile: 13 books grouped by the job each one does, from fixing your money scripts to building a business that runs without you, each with an age window. The staging is the useful part. A few of his claims are overstated.
Respect Is Taught: Dan Martell's Six Habits for Earning It
Dan Martell says respect isn't given for money or brains, it's taught by how you show up. His six habits: speak up early, stop people-pleasing, look the part, speak with certainty, lead with your body, and be the same person everywhere. The useful core, and where it overreaches.
28 Money Lessons Worth Keeping
A founder who now runs a portfolio doing over a hundred million a year lists the 28 things he would tell his broke 20-year-old self about money. Most are sharp and durable. A few are motivational sugar. Here is the signal, grouped and weighed.
The Five Steps to Success: Ray Dalio's Looping Process for Getting What You Want
Ray Dalio built the world's largest hedge fund on one repeating loop: set audacious goals, refuse to tolerate problems, diagnose to the root, design the fix like a machine, then push through. When the results land, you set a bigger goal and loop again, at a higher level.
State, Story, Strategy: The Sequence Tony Robbins Wishes He'd Known From the Start
Tony Robbins calls it the advice he wishes he had been given at the start of his career: stop starting with strategy. The order that actually produces breakthroughs is State, then Story, then Strategy, and getting the sequence wrong is why most founders try briefly and never follow through.
OOCEMR: Tony Robbins' 6-Step Framework for Decisions You Can Bet the Company On
Tony Robbins credits a six-step decision process, OOCEMR, with a single decision worth $400 million to him personally. Strip away the stagecraft and it is a ruthlessly practical operating system for founders.
Three Fortunes, One Table: The Frameworks Hormozi, Sanchez and Priestley Actually Use
Steven Bartlett put three very different self-made entrepreneurs around one table. The result is less a conversation than a working toolkit: how to tell if a business will ever make money, who to sell to, how to price, how to look and sound like someone worth trusting, and the money games the r
Why Most People Live the Same Six Months for Twenty Years
Alex Hormozi has built companies worth hundreds of millions, and he says the thing that keeps most people stuck is not strategy. It is fear, and a loop almost no one notices they are trapped in. Here are the frameworks he uses to break it.