Every subject, one page each.

How to think clearly under uncertainty: base rates, second-order effects, probabilistic reasoning, and the specific ways a confident mind misleads itself.

4 published lectures →

Emotional regulation without suppression: naming states precisely, understanding what anger and anxiety are actually reporting, and widening the gap between stimulus and response.

6 published lectures →

Self-discipline built as architecture rather than willpower: designing cues, friction, and environments so the behaviour you want becomes the path of least resistance.

3 published lectures →

Why leverage compounds and effort does not: playing long games, choosing the right positions, and designing a life that does not require heroic exertion to hold together.

1 published lecture →

Influence without manipulation: charisma as warmth times competence, reading a room accurately, negotiating honestly, and the economy of speech.

2 published lectures →

Strength training as insurance against your future self: why muscle and force production predict how the next forty years go, and how to train without it consuming your life.

2 published lectures →

Athletic capacity beyond raw strength: conditioning, coordination, movement skill, and why the ability to fight belongs in a serious education.

1 published lecture →

Sleep as the floor everything else stands on: circadian light, recovery debt, and why no amount of discipline compensates for chronic under-sleeping.

2 published lectures →

What survives every nutrition argument: energy balance, protein, and the discipline of the plate, without ideology, supplements, or a diet to join.

1 published lecture →

Purpose found through action rather than declaration: work as a source of meaning, eudaimonia over happiness, and why searching for your passion is the wrong instruction.

2 published lectures →

Stoicism, Buddhism and Confucian thought read as operating instructions rather than aesthetics: craving, mortality, virtue, and the examined life.

1 published lecture →

Observing yourself accurately before trying to direct yourself: the patterns you repeat, the stories you tell, and the ability to be alone with your own mind.

5 published lectures →