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by Sahil Bloom
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  • The Loud Liker Theory

    October 9, 2026 · 7 min

    Confession: I’ve never been someone who was a natural in social settings. As something of an introvert, I struggled to build new adult relationships. I often felt others weren’t responding to my social signals. In most cases, I just…

  • The Stories You Tell Yourself

    October 7, 2026 · 8 min

    When I was 13 years old, a single story changed the course of my life. But to understand it, I need to take you back in time to a strange experiment from decades ago. Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga was studying patients who had their…

  • My 90 -10 Rule for Routines

    October 2, 2026 · 8 min

    Confession: I'm a routine guy. I thrive on structure. I think of routines as a way to ensure execution against the daily action that contributes to long-term, compounding progress. But there's a dark side to routines that nobody talks…

  • The Middle Path to Happiness

    September 30, 2026 · 8 min

    In the 3rd century BCE, King Pyrrhus was preparing for an aggressive military campaign in Italy when a trusted advisor named Cineas asked him a simple question: After conquering Italy, what would they do next? Then Sicily. Then Libya and…

  • The Protégé Effect: A Powerful Model for the AI Era

    September 25, 2026 · 8 min

    AI is quite clearly the biggest buzzword of the year. But one thing I don't see anyone talking about is just how much AI is shifting how rewards are earned. Things are changing so rapidly that the frontier of accurate prediction has been…

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  • 7 Lessons From My 2:49 Marathon (That Have Nothing To Do With Running)

    September 23, 2026 · 12 min

    Last week I wrote about failing a marathon. Six days later, at 5am, I drove back to the course alone and ran 26.25 miles in 2:48:47. Not because I needed the official result. Because when I say I'm going to do something, I do it. In this…

  • Jevons Paradox: The Perils of Efficiency

    September 18, 2026 · 8 min

    In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons studied the impact of the increased efficiency of coal use. The common economic intuition said that as efficiency improved, people would use less coal. Jevons argued that the economic…

  • I Think I Need to Talk About Failure

    September 16, 2026 · 11 min

    Last Sunday, I was scheduled to run a marathon with a goal of completing the race in 2:49:59. I trained all summer for the race, building up to 70+ mile weeks. I tapered. I carb loaded. I meticulously prepared for every detail. And…

  • Be a Ford, Then a Sloan

    September 11, 2026 · 9 min

    The engineer took out an axe and slammed it into the brick wall. It was June 1896. The young man had spent months working in a small brick shed behind his rented house, only to realize, at 4am, that the door wasn't big enough for what he'd…

  • It Was Just a Game of Catch

    September 9, 2026 · 7 min

    Last weekend, my family and I made our annual pilgrimage to a small community in northwest Connecticut. When I was 18 months old, my parents had rented a house there for the summer, seeking an escape from the New York City heat. The next…

  • A Lesson From a Mentor I'll Never Forget

    September 4, 2026 · 6 min

    I first met Tim Cook in 2014. I was just starting my career in finance and had signed up for a local gym that opened at 5:00am. I started arriving at 4:45am so I could get to the office by 6:30. Each morning, there was a small handful of…

  • 9 Harsh Truths Nobody Told You About Success

    September 2, 2026 · 11 min

    I'm convinced that the market for telling people what they want to hear is much larger than the market for telling people what they need to hear. That one fact explains a lot of what you see in the world. But my goal has always been to be…

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