Charlie Munger's investing and life principles from The Tao of Charlie Munger

Founders June 30, 2019

• Patience and cash hoarding beat diversification — always wait for the crash.
• Holding a great business forever compounds wealth; selling early trades away the best years.
• Reading biographies beats finance textbooks; deep focus beats multitasking.

Superhuman: algorithmic product-market fit and charging $30 for email

Acquired June 27, 2019

• 40% 'very disappointed' is the measurable threshold that predicts growth
• Charging more than free incumbents only works with deliberate premium positioning
• Only launch when you actually need users, capital, or candidates

How to choose a career: two questions that actually matter

StoryBrand With Donald Miller June 27, 2019

• Proving yourself through work is a guaranteed path to burnout
• People only pay for problems being solved — usefulness drives income
• Love it and it solves a problem: the only two criteria that count

Building a team that attracts and retains top talent

Bill Gallagher June 26, 2019

• Top people aren't job-hunting — you have to find them yourself
• Ask employees their one life goal, then make it the company's mission
• Zero voluntary departures: why genuine care outperforms any retention tactic

Reducing phone addiction, beating stuck points, and using systems instead of goals

How I Work June 26, 2019

• Locking your phone away cuts usage by 30% without willpower
• Goals keep you in failure mode — daily systems build momentum instead
• Boredom is a creative resource; constant stimulus blocks your best ideas

How to build and run an effective growth team at a startup

Y Combinator June 26, 2019

• Fix retention first — paid acquisition on leaky cohorts destroys runway
• Test hypotheses, not tasks: 80 experiments often hide just 4–6 ideas
• Word-of-mouth drove over 50% of Airbnb guests — build for your channel early

How Slack went from a failed game to a $19.5 billion direct listing

Acquired June 25, 2019

• Freemium gated on message history — not headcount — unlocked whole-company adoption before anyone paid
• Slack emerged in a week from the wreckage of a nonviolent browser MMO called Glitch
• Teams that hit 2,000 messages retained at 93% — so every onboarding step targeted that threshold

The Two Kinds of Negotiators

StoryBrand With Donald Miller June 24, 2019

How self-deprecating talk shapes what others think of you

StoryBrand With Donald Miller June 24, 2019

• People take self-deprecating comments as fact, not humility
• Negative self-talk directly blocks promotions and career opportunities
• Honest, positive sound bites signal value and invite success