Épisodes

  • Social Traps
    Oct 19 2025

    Harry offers a taxonomy of five "social traps" that can keep us from gaining traction.

    Show notes:

    • Social Traps by John Cross and Melvin Guyer
    • Steve Jobs Stanford commencement address
    • Matthew Perry
    • Frequency Illusion (the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon)
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    26 min
  • Gumption
    Oct 5 2025

    A reading from a famous director's memoir sparks a discussion about a key trait for gaining traction: boldness coupled with the ability to get things done.

    Show notes:

    • Every Man for Himself and God Against All (audiobook) by Werner Herzog
    • Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    • Comedian
    • The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance by Rich Diviney
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    30 min
  • Pruning
    Sep 21 2025

    Harry offers a short reading from a surprising source about an important question: How do you decide when it's time to let go?

    Show notes:

    • What Would Harry Do? by Juliana Sharaf
    • Necessary Endings by Henry Cloud
    • The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
    • Kodak
    • Harry’s newsletter
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    28 min
  • Framing
    Sep 7 2025

    Jorge and Harry discuss how to proactively shift your mental models to get unstuck.

    • Framers by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and Francis de Véricourt
    • Breakneck by Dan Wang
    • Precision questioning
    • Iceberg model
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    29 min
  • The Inner Game
    Aug 24 2025

    Jorge and Harry discuss a classic book about how to avoid getting in your own way through overthinking.

    Show notes:

    • The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey
    • Stick (Apple TV show)
    • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
    • Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
    • Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    • Esther Dyson
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    27 min
  • OODA Loops
    Aug 10 2025

    Harry and Jorge discuss the implications of John Boyd's work beyond its original military context.

    Show notes:

    • The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security by Grant Hammond
    • John Boyd
    • OODA loop
    • Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
    • Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Francis P.B. Osinga
    • Hoyt Ng
    • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
    • How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
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    29 min
  • AI for Leaders
    Jul 27 2025

    Jorge and Harry discuss a book focused on using AI to lead better — and has underpinnings that align with the show's themes.

    Show notes:

    • More Human by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter
    • The Mind of the Leader by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter
    • The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr
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    24 min
  • Authentic Efforts
    Jul 15 2025

    Harry reads a passage from a book by Robert Pirsig that raises questions about what authentic effort looks like — and the traps inherent in its trappings.

    • On Quality by Robert Pirsig
    • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
    • Lila by Robert Pirsig
    • Traction Heroes Ep. 11: Gall’s Law
    • Atomic Habits by James Clear
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    25 min