Lessons on better decision making — Philip Tetlock: How to See the Future Professor and New York Times best-selling author Philip Tetlock (@PTetlock) explains the art and science of predicting…fs.blog Podcast: The Knowledge Project Podcast #6 — Dec. 8, 2015 Guest: Philip Tetlock — University of Pennsylvania professor and author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. Topic: How people can get better at predicting the future to help with decision making.

Lessons on systems, routines, and methods for success — Jerry Seinfeld — A Comedy Legend’s Systems, Routines, and Methods for Success (#485) Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a void with great speed. — Jerry Seinfeld Entertainment icon Jerry Seinfeld’s…tim.blog Podcast: The Tim Ferris Show #485 — Dec. 8, 2020 Guest: Jerry Seinfeld, legendary comedian, writer, and sitcom star Topic: His systems, routines, and methods for creative success

Episode #501 of the Tim Ferris Show — Steven Pressfield — How to Overcome Self-Sabotage and Resistance, Routines for Little Successes… “Resistance with a capital R, that force of self-sabotage, will try to stop you as a writer or an artist or anybody…tim.blog Podcast: The Tim Ferris Show #501 — Feb. 26, 2021 Guest: Steven Pressfield, novelist, screenwriter, and author of The War of Art. Topic: The concept of Resistance, why we self-sabotage, the journey of the hero and the journey of the artist, and routines for creative success.

Takeaways from Episode #34 of The Knowledge Project Podcast — Amelia Boone: Learning How to Suffer with the Queen of Pain In just a few short years, Amelia Boone has dominated the world of Obstacle Course Racing with over 50 podiums and two…fs.blog Podcast: The Knowledge Project Podcast #34 — Jun. 13, 2018 Guest: Amelia Boone — Endurance athlete. Known as “the Michael Jordan of obstacle course racing” and The Queen of Pain. Oh, and she’s also a corporate lawyer as her day job. No big deal.

That way, we can give a damn — One of my many faults as a fiction writer is I’m a nice guy. By default, I’m an agreeable person who tends to avoid conflict and doesn’t want to rock the boat unnecessarily. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with this in real life (most of the time). But when I…

№. 3 — Writing is like shooting arrows — I’m obsessed with learning the best of what other people — especially writers — have already figured out and using it to better my own writing practice. So naturally, my ears perked up when I was listening to one of my favorite comedians hand out writing gem after writing gem…

Get in the game — “If you want to be useful, you can always start now, with only 1 percent of your grand vision. It’ll be a humble prototype version of your grand vision, but you’ll be in the game. You’ll be ahead of the rest because you actually started, while others are waiting for…

Follow Charlie Munger’s First Rule of Compounding — “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it” — Albert Einstein Warren Buffett if often cited when it comes to investing and general life advice — and for good reason. But his right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway and…