The Rabbit Hole

On his journey from Minnesota to Northern California, the narrator discusses quality and several other philosophical questions through examples and Chautauquas. "To truly experience quality, one must both embrace and apply it as best fits the requirements of the situation." Full notes on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance here  Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better

Taleb describes that anything is antifragile as it gets better with chaos and disorder and improves with time whereas anything fragile hates volatility. He lays out extremely convincing arguments for doing away with most predictions and trying to forecast into the future as this in reality handicaps us and doesn't allow us to react to what is truly happening. His arguments can and should be molded into every facet of your life and your decisions Full notes on Antifragile here  Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better

Ken Iverson took over Nucor when he was 39 and compounded the business  at incredible rates for decades. On top of it, he did it in the steel industry which is not known for its attractive returns. Iverson lays out his management principles which center around employee trust and loyalty, decentralization, honesty, limited hierarchy and bureaucracy and aligning the employees and manager's interest through partnership. Full notes on Plain Talk here  Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better

Bruce Lee is much more than just one of the best martial artists of all time, he is a philosopher who sought to bring his beliefs into everything he did. Lee outlines a framework in order to grow spiritually, mentally and emotionally by living in accordance with Tao, or nature. Full notes on The Warrior Within here  Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better

This classic is a "series of insights into life and nature; it is suggestion rather than statement. It looks at what it means to follow the way of the Tao and how to go about doing so. Be humble, don't strive, the weak are strong, be generous, be frugal, don't force things are some of the many timeless tenets it advocates. Full notes on Tao Teh Ching here  Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better.

A classic story of revenge and reciprocation on the grandest scale Full notes on The Count of Monte Cristo here Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better

Seneca, a Stoic philosopher, offers his view on how to live successfully and happily (by being in the moment and not worrying about the past or future since there is nothing you can do about either), the importance of reason and morality and provides timeless wisdom which is just as relevant today as it was millenia ago.  Full notes on On the Shortness of Life here  Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better

Gribbin explores our biological history to show how complexity can arise out of simplicity. Chaos leads to complexity which leads to life. The interesting things happen at the edge of complexity; in chaotic systems, minute differences in the initial conditions lead to huge differences in outcome. Full notes on Deep Simplicity here  Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better

Adams is the comic behind the Dilbert series and this book is his story about how he stumbled his way to success amid many failures. Goals are for losers, your brain isn't magic - you can program it, most important metric to track is your personal energy, every skill you acquire doubles your chances of success, success is happiness + freedom, what can be managed, conquer shyness by being a huge phony (in a good way), fitness is the lever that moves the world, simplicity transforms the ordinary into the amazing  Full notes on How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big here Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better

A very interesting dialogue between Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, the "librarian" and the "seeker" of knowledge. The dialogue discusses how to live a successful, happy and fulfilling life, what to avoid in life and in business and how to improve mental biases and heuristics in order to make better decisions Full notes on Buffett and Munger: A Study in Simplicity and Uncommon, Common Sense by Peter Bevelin here Buy the book here *** To support: Rate and share this podcast Sign up for The Rabbit Hole newsletter Become a patron Join The Latticework To connect: Twitter LinkedIn Sponsor: The Rabbit Hole podcast is brought to you by The Latticework. The Latticework curates, explains and interconnects hundreds of mental models so that you can become a better multidisciplinary thinker. Every partner applies and is vetted, ensuring a high-quality, curious, and low-ego community. Join hundreds of partners from around the world by applying here, or learn more at LTCWRK.com Become Multidisciplinary. Think Better