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Treat time as a friend
14 October 2024
At the end of each reading, I ask you a provocative question.
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Should you have a boss at all
13 October 2024
A thought for each day. It takes 5 minutes to read.
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The benefits of optimism
12 October 2024
My new book 80/20 DAILY. A thought for each day.
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Richard Koch — Revisiting the 80/20 Principle, The Power of Optimistic Journaling, Studying History to Improve Investing, and The Grand Beliefs of Winners
06 July 2023
Podcast — The Tim Ferriss Show
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DO YOU WANT TO BECOME CREATIVE?
29 December 2020
DO YOU WANT TO BECOME CREATIVE? Valuable hints from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (and me)
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ON CREATIVITY
15 December 2020
Do you think of yourself as a creative person? Do you aspire to creativity? What does it mean? Why would you want to spend your time on creative activity? How should you go about it?
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FIBONACCI’S RABBITS
24 March 2020
We’ve all heard of Leonardo da Vinci, but have you heard of Leonardo of Pisa, and do you know why he deserves to be famous?
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THE REPUBLIC OF VIRTUE Or, In Praise of Segregation
10 March 2020
‘The virtuous are virtuous for no other reasons than to join forces with others who are virtuous, to mutual benefit.
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IN PRAISE OF THE ENGLISH
25 February 2020
It strikes me as whimsically appropriate that I should be sitting in Australia in the middle of summer, watching the persistent rain outside, snugly – and perhaps smugly – reading about the English and the glories and humiliation of their – my – history.
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ARE WE GETTING MORE OR LESS FREE?
28 January 2020
The poet Philip Larkin famously observed that sex was invented in 1963. Or rather less dramatically: So life was never better than/In nineteen sixty-three/(Though just too late for me)/Between the end of the ‘Chatterley’ ban/And the Beatles’ first L.P.
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TIME TO REVIVE THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS?
19 November 2019
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which is to Come was published in 1678 and is considered one of the greatest works of English literature
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BE HUMAN – BE UNPREDICTABLE
29 October 2019
Most of us throw our embryo-hood away. As we get older, we become set in our ways, fixed in our nature.
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FACTFULNESS, MODERNITY, & ENTERPRISE
08 October 2019
Chimpanzees greatly outperform our well-educated elites in their knowledge of important world trends
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IT’S ONLY ROCK and ROLL – BUT I LIKE IT
24 September 2019
And now for something completely different.
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CAN WE HAVE TOO MUCH INDIVIDUALISM?
10 September 2019
We have to look at the origins of individualism...
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KOCH’S GUIDE TO CYCLING SURVIVAL IN AMSTERDAM
27 August 2019
Here is my cycling survival guide
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SUICIDE OF THE WEST
13 August 2019
WHAT IS DIFFERENT FROM 2006?
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SUICIDE OF THE WEST
30 July 2019
Western civilization has created something no previous civilization has managed – an immensely rich society and culture
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SUICIDE OF THE WEST
16 July 2019
Capitalism has delivered “the Miracle”
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SHOULD WE GIVE UP ON SOCIAL MEDIA?
02 July 2019
The question came into my mind just now when reading some words written in 1944 from a Nazi prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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SUPERIOR STRATEGY = DIFFERENT STRATEGY
18 June 2019
To pursue intelligent difference, we need to find a competitive advantage.
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AN OLDIE and SHORTY BUT GOODY: THE VON MANSTEIN MATRIX
04 June 2019
Five Practical Ways to Lazy Intelligence
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THE SUPREME VIRTUE OF ‘HAVING BEEN’
21 May 2019
This may seem a touch eccentric and macabre, but as a philosophy of life it has some great virtues
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11 FUNDAMENTAL BUSINESS CONCEPTS
07 May 2019
A concept is by its nature an oversimplification.
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CARING and THE POWER OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND
23 April 2019
It seems clear that inspiration comes from outside, and that we cannot control it.
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