Mr. Five Percent: The Copper Trader Who Caused a $2.6 Billion Loss

• Jul 05, 2025
• The 12-Week MBA

The 12-Week MBA Chapter 16: Collective Action and Decision-Making - How Teams Actually Make Decisions

You and four friends cannot agree on a restaurant. Now imagine trying to make a strategic decision with a team of thousands. That is the problem this chapter tackles, and the answer is not what most people expect.

• Jul 05, 2025

The 4-Hour Body: Ultraendurance Running

Kelly Starrett, founder of San Francisco CrossFit, casually mentioned to Tim that he just ran a 28.4-mile ultramarathon with 18,500 feet of elevation change. And that he was back to heavy lifting the next week.

• Jul 05, 2025
• The 4-Hour Body

The 4-Hour Body: Ultraendurance Running

Kelly Starrett, founder of San Francisco CrossFit, casually mentioned to Tim that he just ran a 28.4-mile ultramarathon with 18,500 feet of elevation change. And that he was back to heavy lifting the next week.

• Jun 28, 2025
• The 12-Week MBA

The 12-Week MBA Chapter 15: Leadership - What It Really Means Beyond the Buzzwords

Everyone talks about leadership. Books, podcasts, TED talks, LinkedIn posts. But when you ask people what leadership actually is, the answers get vague fast. This chapter might be the most honest take on the subject I have ever read.

• Jun 28, 2025

The 4-Hour Body: Hacking the NFL Combine

There’s a gym in the back of an industrial park in New Jersey, right next to a Chevy dealership. Guys in there rub horse liniment on their elbows between sets. McTarnahan’s Absorbent Blue Lotion - the stuff they use on racehorses. The fumes clear your sinuses from ten feet away.

• Jun 28, 2025
• The 4-Hour Body

The 4-Hour Body: Hacking the NFL Combine

There’s a gym in the back of an industrial park in New Jersey, right next to a Chevy dealership. Guys in there rub horse liniment on their elbows between sets. McTarnahan’s Absorbent Blue Lotion - the stuff they use on racehorses. The fumes clear your sinuses from ten feet away.

• Jun 28, 2025

Three Wise Kings: When Buffett, Gates and Soros All Bet on Silver

Three of the richest men on Earth all decided to put money into silver during the 1990s. Same metal. Same decade. Completely different strategies. And wildly different outcomes. Chapter 16 of Torsten Dennin’s “From Tulips to Bitcoins” tells this story, and it reads almost like a parable about what separates a good investment from a disaster.

• Jun 28, 2025
• From Tulips to Bitcoins

Three Wise Kings: When Buffett, Gates and Soros All Bet on Silver

Three of the richest men on Earth all decided to put money into silver during the 1990s. Same metal. Same decade. Completely different strategies. And wildly different outcomes. Chapter 16 of Torsten Dennin’s “From Tulips to Bitcoins” tells this story, and it reads almost like a parable about what separates a good investment from a disaster.

• Jun 21, 2025
• Nomad Capitalist

Nomad Capitalist: Final Thoughts on Going Where You Are Treated Best

Twenty-one posts. Sixteen chapters. One very long subtitle. We made it to the end of Andrew Henderson’s Nomad Capitalist.

I started this retelling series because the book made me think. Not because I agreed with everything in it. Not because I wanted to sell offshore company services. But because it challenged ideas I had been carrying around for decades without questioning them. And any book that does that deserves a proper read-through.