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109 frameworks
The Four Pillars of Wealth Creation
Multiply specific knowledge, accountability, leverage and judgment, then compound it.
The Three Forms of Leverage
Trade labour and capital leverage for code and media, the kinds nobody has to grant you.
Specific Knowledge
Find the knowledge you cannot be trained for, then get paid for being irreplaceable.
The Good Explanation Test
Judge any claim on four tests: explanatory, testable, hard to vary, risky predictions.
The Hard-to-Vary Test for Good Explanations
Judge an explanation by how little you can change it without wrecking it.
Play Long-Term Games with Long-Term People
Pick an industry and a circle where the same people keep playing, then let trust compound.
Productize Yourself
Find what only you can do, then scale it with code, media, capital or labour.
Question the Requirement
Delete the requirement before you optimise the part
The Aspirational Hourly Rate
Set an absurdly high personal hourly rate and let it decide what you refuse to do.
The Authentic Investor Brand
Build a brand founders want in the round so you get access, not just deal flow
The Four Kinds of Luck
Stop waiting for luck and build the character that makes luck come find you.
The Business Model Leverage Screen
Pick businesses with scale economies, zero marginal cost and network effects.
Amara's Law
Judge a new technology on a 20-year clock, not a 2-year one
Deal Flow, Judgement, Capital
Diagnose which of the three angel-investing prerequisites you actually lack
Intelligence, Energy, Integrity
Screen every partner and hire on three traits and refuse to compromise on any of them.
The Four Non-Delegables
Delegate everything except recruiting, fundraising, strategy, and product vision.
The Warren Buffett Three-Part Test
Screen every founding team on high energy, high intelligence and high integrity.
Escape Competition Through Authenticity
Keep redefining what you do until being the best in the world at it is true.
Problems, Conjectures, Criticism
Start from a problem, guess a solution, then attack your own guess.
Sourcing Undiscovered Talent
Find great people before the market prices them, then earn the intro with real work.
Calibrate Then Improve Your Judgment
Prove whether your investing judgment is real before you try to sharpen it.
Conjecture Over Induction
Create knowledge by guessing boldly and killing errors, never by extrapolating the trend.
Curate People: Geniuses Only
Hire for capability, never for slots, and treat any compromise on talent as an attack.
The Company-Wide AI Build Week
Stop all project work for a week; every employee builds what they think matters most.
The Iteration Loop
Count learning loops, not hours: do, pause, reflect, change, repeat
Iterations Over Hours
Mastery comes from completed learning loops, not from accumulated time on task.
Non-Consensus Right: The One Fatal Flaw Filter
Back deals that look broken in exactly one way, and know which rule is being broken.
The Shadow Business Co-Founder Play
Manufacture pre-seed deal flow by becoming the business partner a technical founder lacks
Conjecture and Refutation
Treat every belief as a guess and hunt for the test that could kill it.
Experiment, Demonstration, Measurement
Only call it an experiment when two rival explanations are actually at stake.
Gell-Mann Amnesia
Treat the error you caught in your own field as a sample, not an exception
Network-First Deal Sourcing
Invest inside your trusted network first and branch out only once it is exhausted
Sell the Truth
Replace sales tactics with credibility so the right buyer sells themselves.
Standard Bite Size Portfolio Construction
Diversify against what you do not know, and put the same check into every conviction.
Taking Children Seriously
Replace coercion with access — learning only happens by the learner's own creativity.
The Random Interview Test
Let a candidate interview any teammate at random and judge whether they would still join.
The Solution Lies Inside the Problem
Stop shopping for solutions and examine the problem until it dissolves for good
Trial, Error, Feedback: The Four Conditions for Innovation
Audit any place, company, or domain for the four conditions innovation actually requires.
Apples-to-Apples Chain Benchmark
Measure every chain on one real transaction type under production conditions.
Hard to Vary
Test a design by trying to change it: a finished one resists every variation
Market Risk vs Execution Risk: Reading Founder Type
Work out which risk a founder is removing, then test them on the risk they are not.
The Data-and-Verification Test
Score any domain on data volume and verification speed to predict where AI wins.
The Self-Refutation Test
Take an idea literally and follow it through; bad ones destroy themselves.
The Weekly Better Rule
End every week better than you began it, on any axis you choose
Unscale the Team
Raise the cost of interrupting people so a small team can do deep creative work.
Knowledge Turns Matter Into Resources
Test any scarcity claim by asking what new knowledge would dissolve it.
Source-First Technical Judgment
Learn a field from its primary sources and back its scientists to validate deals.
Decentralization-to-Value Matching
Choose your chain by what is at stake, not by the throughput headline.
Exposure Over Effort
Engineer the inputs and you become them, without a single unit of extra work
Peace Through Truth
Reach peace by understanding what is true, not by practicing self-improvement
Problem-First Epistemology
Start every inquiry from a clash of ideas, not from a search for certainty
Protect the Means of Error Correction
Judge any system by whether it can still find and fix its own mistakes.
The Internal Software Factory
Put software engineers on architecture and let domain experts vibe-code their own tools.
The Invention vs Innovation Split
Separate the 1% prototype from the 99% work that makes it cheap, reliable, and adopted.
The New Knowledge Test
Screen candidates on whether they generate original ideas, not on credentials.
The Real Feedback Filter
Only nature and free markets give honest feedback, everything social is noise
The Tech Hub Tier Test
Decide where to angel invest by tiering your city and pricing your access honestly
The Poverty of Compromise
Run one side's real idea rather than a middle option nobody believed in.
Opinionated Simplicity
Remove every choice you can; each user decision is an abdication of your judgement.
The 0.5% Meanness Rule
Ration hostility to keep it powerful when you finally use it
Anti-Rational Meme Detection
Spot the ideas that survive by disabling your capacity to criticise them
The Excitement Threshold
Raise when your own excitement crosses the bar, never when the calendar says so.
The Explanation Test
Judge a theory by what it explains, never by what it can predict
The Prescription Boundary
Use how-tos for the mechanical, then drop every method at the edge of the art
Agent-First Incident Response
Replace hand-set alert thresholds with anomaly detection and an agent on first response.
Blame Yourself, Preserve Your Agency
Take responsibility for every bad outcome so you keep the power to fix it
Follow the Fun
Work only on the problem that already looms largest in your own mind
The 24-Hour Cooling-Off Rule
Separate deciding yes from committing, and refuse every artificial deadline.
The Artificial Pleasure Test
Remove the substance from an event to reveal whether you wanted the event at all
The Feedback Source Test
Trust the judgement of people paid by reality, discount the people graded by their peers.
The Fully Interconnected Graph Organization
Replace hierarchy with peer-to-peer routing by hiring nodes smart enough to self-organize
The Fun Criterion for Choosing Problems
Pick the problem you would enjoy failing at, not the one you must win.
The Human Operator Loop
Stay the architect: catch hacks, own the context, and steer an agent built to please you.
The Prerequisite Stack Test
Check whether a failed idea was actually wrong or simply arrived before its stack existed.
The Verification Flywheel
Keep participation cheap enough to be a default habit, then defend the norm.
The Walk-Away Test
Judge a deal by how hard it is to escape, then refuse to be trapped.
The Why-Tuesday Test
Reject a specific prediction when nobody can explain why that one and not another.
Waste Tokens, Save Time
Optimize for your calendar time and the final artifact, never for token spend.
Error-Theory-First Experimentation
Spend most of the effort theorising the errors before trusting any measurement
Problem-First Learning
Stop pouring knowledge in; hand the learner a problem they actually have
Finite-Weight Principles
Hold principles seriously without granting them infinite weight
Live in the Future, Then Work Backwards
Buy tomorrow's cost curve today, watch what becomes possible, then build backwards.
Pick the Medium You Would Do for Free
Match the marketing channel to what you would happily do with no audience
Sign Off on Consequences, Not Lines
Replace line-by-line review with an accountability statement backed by an evaluator.
The Compounding Error Rule
Buy maximum accuracy wherever steps loop — error compounds, price does not.
Wealth as the Set of Possible Transformations
Measure wealth as everything you could bring about, not as a number
Knowledge Creates Resources
Treat scarcity as a knowledge problem, not a fixed physical limit.
Layered Error Correction
Judge a system by how many independent ways it can catch its own mistakes
Popper's Removability Test
Judge a system by how cheaply it removes bad rulers and policies without violence.
Reports on Demand: AI as the Implicit Intranet
Point AI at your own code, docs and email instead of building dashboards and wikis
The Possible and Impossible Reframe
Describe a system by which transformations it permits, not by what it will do next
The Stag Hunt Team
Build the smallest high-trust team that can still take down the stag.
Desire as a Contract for Unhappiness
Price every desire as the unhappiness you agree to carry until it is satisfied
Rational Empathy
Reason your way into their position before you argue for your own.
The Collective Brain Test
Before trusting a top-down plan, ask whether one mind could hold the system
The Explanatory Leap
Criticize ideas in your head to jump gaps that trial-and-error can never cross.
The Consumer Test for AI Output
Ask who reads it: machines get generated output, humans get your compressed thinking.
The Fear-Not-Greed Lens
Diagnose bad collective behaviour as fear, because greed cannot scale
The Attacker-Defender Asymmetry Test
Score a technology by which side it favours, then read off where power goes
The Personal App Store
Ship one-shot custom apps to your own phone instead of settling for someone else's.
The Disobedience Test for Creativity
Test creativity by whether it can break the rules it was handed.
The Logic of Violence
Read the dominant weapon technology to predict how power and states will reorganize
LSD Mode: The Vector-Space Collider
Cross unaligned vector spaces over your own corpus, then re-rank the collisions for ideas.
The EIP Change Pipeline
Move a protocol change through staged consent instead of a single decision
The What-Is-Your-Problem Test
Judge researchers and founders by the problem they name, not the result they promise
Total Information Awareness for Operators
Wire an agent into every company system so the founder sees each team unfiltered.
Advise From the Problem Situation
Swap generic advice for the learner's own admiration and one well-aimed question.
Commoditize Your Complement
Give away the layer next to yours so demand floods into the layer you actually own
The Enhancement Factor Test for Relationships
Judge a relationship by how much more than double it makes you.