Made You Think

“It is odd that despite their current widespread use and looming future importance, most of us know very little about our automatic behavior patterns. Perhaps that is so precisely because of the mech…

“It’s this denial of death that is our main psychological challenge.”

In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and I discuss The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. It’s a phenomenal book on how our fe…

Mise-en-place is not a crazy efficiency program. It is really a way of life for people who value themselves, people, eachother, and the planet.

In this episode of Made You Think, we’re covering the b…

I had found that theory was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted, as I had early discovered in school where I had excelled without labor, guided by theory. While many others without master…

The best of them know that their peak performance never comes when they’re thinking about it.

In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and Nat cover The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey. Before…

Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life.

In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and I discuss the book Principles by Ray …

The goal is essentially to increase net-profit while increasing return on investment and increasing cash flow.

Today we’re discussing The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It is a business novel that Eli…

We all have these things in our life that we accept as a first principle while having no scientific basis or reason for believing in that thing.

Today we do a deep dive of the world’s raddest man: El…

The strange loop phenomenon occurs whenever by moving upwards or downwards through the levels of some hierarchical system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

Godel Escher Bac…

The difference in even doing a little bit of preparation between doing nothing for a disaster is massive.

Today we’re discussing what you should know about preparing for doomsday, centered around the…

Every time that you’re putting a label on something, you are abstracting away from what it truly means.

Meditation has taken western interest by storm… but what is Buddhism, anyway? We try to figure …

Every move that an infinite player makes is towards the horizon, and every move a finite player makes is within a boundary.

After reading Finite and Infinite Games, you’ll never see the world the sam…

For some people, yes, computers are necessary and valuable, but for a lot of other people, they are simply accelerating and enabling this useless information consumption.

In this episode, we cover ho…

There’s not a big third-party in the middle taking thirty, fifty, or whatever percent of the cut on the way, it’s just directly from one individual to another individual.

In this episode of Made You …

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

In this episode of Made You Think, we read through “In Praise of…

“When money can be earned anywhere, you won’t obligated to live in or subjugate yourself to high taxation.”

In this episode of Made You Think, we discussed “The Sovereign Individual,” a book publishe…

“Picking a path, even if it’s not the right path, will get you closer to finding the path that will work for you.”

“The Power of Myth” is a series of interviews conducted over two years between Josep…

“It’s never going to be easier to just learn and to make little money, than when you’re young and in the beginning.”

Mastery is the best book that either of us have found at becoming a master of your…

“You want your life to be where, if it was your last year, you’d happy with how your life turned out.” Letters from a Stoic is one of Neil’s and Nat’s favorite works of philosophy, and has taken the …

“Perhaps being deprived of poison makes us fragile and the road to robustification starts with a modicum of harm.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile has completely changed how people think about wo…