Prologue: The Great Misallocation
The cultural hypnosis of “hard work pays off.”
Why working harder made people poorer in time, attention, and peace.
The silent shift: capital and code now work harder than people do.
Part I – Seeing the Pattern
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The Efficiency Illusion
Why effort ≠ value.
How productivity culture became modern slavery.
The difference between motion and progress.
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The Pareto Lens
Understanding the 80/20 principle as a law of nature, not a metaphor.
How to spot the 20% of inputs driving 80% of outcomes — in money, health, relationships.
Examples from investing, business, and personal growth.
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Leverage: The Real Game
Money is a tool, not a goal.
Four modern levers: Capital, Code, Content, Conviction.
Each can multiply time, reach, and impact while you sleep.
How to build and combine them.
Part II – The Inner Framework
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Asymmetric Thinking
You don’t need to win often — just correctly.
Why the wealthy lose small and win big.
How to spot bets with limited downside and exponential upside.
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Compounding Calm
The mind as the ultimate portfolio.
Why stillness outperforms speed.
Psychological ROI: attention, energy, and emotional leverage.
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Systems Scale You
Habits, automations, and investments as your silent workers.
Building feedback loops that grow while you rest.
How to design a life where “doing nothing” is productive.
Part III – Living the Code
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Time Ownership
The only real wealth.
Why the rich rent everything except time.
Designing days that reflect freedom, not status.
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Minimalist Wealth
Rejecting financial obesity.
Owning fewer, better things that serve compounding peace.
The 80/20 portfolio: where money meets meaning.
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Becoming Unbreakable
Anti-fragility as the endgame.
Building layers of independence: financial, psychological, existential.
When the world shakes, you stay still.
Epilogue: The Silent Revolution
Why the next wave of wealth is invisible.
The future belongs to the calm.
Work less. Own more. Think asymmetrically.