Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.

Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.

Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

Code and media are permissionless leverage. They’re the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.

Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else and replace you.

Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up this idea of problems. [77]