Shane Parrish

How should we go about intelligently improving ourselves?Charlie Munger, the irreverent billionaire and business partner of Warren Buffett, offered a deep response at the recent shareholders meeting for the Daily...

“Peter Bevelin is one of the wisest people on the planet.”— Nassim TalebPeter Bevelin wrote Seeking Wisdom, one of the books that profoundly changed my life. After reading it Peter became a hero of mine. Not only...

That’s David Logan writing in Tribal Leadership.At Farnam Street we try to bring together the big ideas of the world, the mental models, and combine them to help us make better decisions, avoid stupidity, and live a...

In a recent interview, I talked about the unexpected things I’ve learned from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger that have helped me live a better life.Here’s the question that was asked of me:Warren Buffett and...

“Giving someone no map is much, much better than giving him a wrong map.” — Nassim TalebSuccess often sows the seeds of its own destruction.Why?One reason is that people make decisions on out-dated “maps”...

Charlie Munger, the billionaire business partner of Warren Buffett, frequently tells the Max Plank Story to demonstate that there are two kinds of knowledge.“Max Planck” after he won the Nobel Prize, Munger said at...

Peter Thiel’s book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, is about building companies that create new things. But more than that, there is a lot of wisdom in this book. We look to models of...

This is the fourth episode of The Knowledge Project, my podcast aimed at acquiring wisdom through interviews with key luminaries from across the globe to gain insights into how they think, live, and connect...

There are four types of relationships with people. Win Win Win Lose Lose Win Lose Lose Seneca says “Time discovers truth.” Only one of those relationships is sustainable over the long-term. And longevity is the...

Why do you go to work? Chances are it’s got something to do with money. But as most of us know, it’s more complicated than that. “There is a spectrum of reasons why people do their jobs,” write Neel Doshi and...

Hunter S. Thompson’s letter to Hume Logan on finding your purpose and living a meaningful life is one of the most popular posts to ever appear on Farnam Street. One reader found it so valuable he dug into...

We’re busier than ever. We’re often on autopilot. We “go through the motions” without really paying attention to the decisions we’re making or the implications. This is often where we go in the wrong...

In the audio version of The Lessons of History you can find excerpts of interviews with the authors Will and Ariel Durant. I think the audio book is worth picking up just for these alone. Here is one excerpt from the...

An excerpt from The Aspirational Investor: Taming the Markets to Achieve Your Life’s Goals that I think you’d enjoy. Most of us have a healthy understanding of risk in the short term. When crossing the street, for...

In the classic Walden, Henry David Thoreau echoes Warren Buffett on having an inner scorecard and defining your own success: If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly...