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For 15 years I believed meditation had to be the first thing after waking. One experiment with sun exposure dissolved that 15-year belief in 48 hours. The more experiments you run, the more fit you become to your environment, and the more accurate your model of the world.

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I sat down to play one game of chess. Twelve hours later the day was gone. Five lessons from the board that run my work and my life.

Featuring: Benjamin Franklin

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I draft most posts on walks now. One experiment, voice-to-text, changed how much leverage every post gets.

Featuring: Buckminster Fuller

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Say the word investor and most people picture money. Money is one resource among several you trade every day to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Featuring: Ali Abdaal, Henry David Thoreau

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I broke my meditation practice many times over fifteen years. The pattern was always the same. A working practice, the impulse to make it more efficient, and a feedback loop too delayed to catch in time.

Featuring: Jeff Bezos

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Three types of experiments — mental, physical, social — cost different amounts of energy. The type you avoid most is usually the one to lean into next.

Featuring: Carl Sagan

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Lee Kuan Yew built one of the most efficient states in modern history and engineered the legal toolkit that kept his party in office for fifty-six years.

Featuring: Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Hsien Loong, Goh Chok Tong, Goh Keng Swee, Lee Hsien Yang, Lee Wei Ling, Lim Chin Siong, Chia Thye Poh, Catherine Lim, Habib Bourguiba

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Each day I'd open my notebook and copy yesterday's principles to a new page by hand. Some lines I wrote without thinking. Others slowed me down.

Featuring: Joan Didion

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Each day I remove three things. A physical item, an app off my phone, a subscription on autopay. A jellyfish has no brain and has lasted 500 million years.

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I came up with a term to describe something I value. If tardigradity is the probability a thing keeps going, it has to come from somewhere.

Featuring: James Clear, Warren Buffett, Mel Robbins, Martin Reeves

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