The ideas worth remembering,
distilled.
A personal library of the most insightful books — read closely, boiled down to what matters, and wired together so ideas talk to each other.
Library
21 summariesThe Pragmatic Programmer
Software is not built, it is grown — so optimize for the cost of changing your mind, not for the elegance of the first version.
Emotional Intelligence
The emotional brain receives the signal first — and self-regulation, not IQ, is what predicts how the rest of your life goes.
The Selfish Gene
You are not the point — you are a survival machine built by genes to carry copies of themselves into the next round.
Skin in the Game
Never take advice from someone who doesn't bear the cost of being wrong.
Antifragile
Some things gain from disorder — and the useful question is never 'will it break?' but 'does volatility feed it?'
The Black Swan
History is driven by a handful of unpredictable events that we explain confidently only after they happen.
Fooled by Randomness
Mistaking luck for skill is the default human operation, and the market pays people handsomely for it right up until it doesn't.
The Psychology of Money
Doing well with money has little to do with what you know and almost everything to do with how you behave.
Principles
Treat your life and work as a machine you can debug — pain plus reflection is the compiler.
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
The revolutionary idea that separates modern times from the past is the mastery of risk — the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Wealth is what works while you sleep; happiness is a skill you practice — and neither is luck if you set them up right.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Assemble a latticework of models from every major discipline, then solve problems backwards — because avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.
The Intelligent Investor
Investing is not about beating the market — it is about not being talked out of your own analysis by a manic man quoting you prices.
Ways to Think About Token Pricing
Every dynamic we can currently see points toward foundation models becoming low-margin commodity infrastructure — and nobody can yet prove otherwise.
Clear Thinking
The moment before a decision is where your life is actually decided — most of us miss it entirely.
The Mathematical Reason Most People Never "Make It"
The square root of the people in a domain produce half its output — and you cannot know in advance which root you are.
The Leverage Field Manual
Effort is bounded by hours in the day; the multiplier you apply it through is not.
The Luck Field Manual
Luck isn't distributed randomly — it lands on whoever has built the largest surface area for it to land on.
The Science of Studying: Encoding
The feeling of learning and actual learning are different variables — and the most popular study methods are popular precisely because they optimize the first.
How to Mark a Book to Forge Deep Insight
Reading without a pen in your hand is forgetting in slow motion — the mark is not a highlight, it is your half of the conversation.
The Great Mental Models Volume 1
One distilled sentence — the hook. Quote it if it contains a colon.