Anthony Pompliano

Two fathers contrasted to argue that schools fail to teach how money works.

Twenty short essays on why behaviour matters more than knowledge with money.

Musk's life from South Africa and PayPal to running SpaceX and Tesla at once.

How a running-shoe importer became Nike, surviving one cash crisis after another.

How Rockefeller built Standard Oil, faced its breakup and gave his fortune away.

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 asks what makes life worth living.

Build habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.

How masters from Leonardo to Faraday found a life's task and served apprenticeships.

Thirteen principles of getting rich, claimed to come from studying 500 wealthy men.

How people champion new ideas, and how leaders can encourage originality.

Alfred Adler's psychology taught through five nights of dialogue.

Michael Lewis's account of the Kahneman-Tversky collaboration works as intellectual biography and as a second path through the research for readers who find academic writing slow. The friendship and its eventual fracture clarifies how two very different minds produced work that neither could have done alone.

When and how to put speed before efficiency to capture a market before rivals.

Venture capital from Arthur Rock to SoftBank, and why a few big bets pay for all.

The Good Judgment Project; the practices that measurably improve forecasts.

Prosperity grows as trade and specialisation let ideas meet and combine.

How Jho Low diverted billions from Malaysia's 1MDB fund into parties and politics.

How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.

From abused child and 300-pound exterminator to Navy SEAL, and how to get tough.

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths translate classical computer science results — optimal stopping, explore/exploit tradeoffs, scheduling — into guidance for human decisions. The 37% rule for when to stop searching and commit is the most cited single insight.

Naval Ravikant's ideas on building wealth and being happy, gathered from his talks.

Twenty-five years negotiating with Chinese officials, from Goldman to the Treasury.