Sustainable Competitive Advantage (Warren Buffet’s Moat)By far, the most critical characteristic that separates high multiple companies from low multiple companies is competitive advantage. The 10X ClubSo there are ten business characteristics that can impact a company’s chances of making it into the 10X+ price/revenue multiple club. Fortunately, when they do exist, they are typically leading candidates for the 10X+ price/revenue multiple club. ]If high price/revenue multiple companies have wide moats or strong barriers to entry, then the opposite is also true. Also recognize that the majority of these high multiple companies are domiciled outside the U.S.

I want the human body to be treated medically as a machine, by machines. December 15, 2013The best way to predict the future is to think about desire. I want to think of the trip between New York City and San Francisco the same way I think about a subway ride. (See also: The Glass Bicycle)It’s hard to think about things far beyond what is currently achievable. I want a system that continuously scans my body and tells me if I have actionable disease, like cancer or a contagious flu.

Kelly McGonigal Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal translates academic research into practical strategies for health, happiness and personal success. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Full bioThis talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat.

As Munger says, “80 or 90 important models will carry about 90% of the freight in making you a worldly‑wise person.”This post is my attempt to enumerate the mental models that are repeatedly useful to me. How-to Use This ListI find mental models are useful to try to make sense of things and to help generate ideas. More profoundly, though, it opened my mind to the power of seeking out and applying mental models across a wide array of disciplines. Mental Models I Find Repeatedly UsefulAround 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which introduced me to how behavioral economics can be applied in business and investing. There are tens of thousands of mental models, and every discipline has their own set that you can learn through coursework, mentorship, or first-hand experience.

Amy Cuddy Social Psychologist Amy Cuddy’s research on body language reveals that we can change other people’s perceptions — and even our own body chemistry — simply by changing body positions. Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success. Full bioThis talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.

For a greater challenge, see “The Advanced 7-Minute Workout.” And download our new, free 7-Minute Workout App for your phone, tablet or other device. The upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice. An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that.

This is a summary of the Learning How To Learn course (on the Coursera website), the final assignment, thought worth sharing. It's a really fun FREE course to do in your own time online, great teachers, good combination of interesting interviews and visuals. Apparently it's the most successful course ever on Coursera with a million participants! The benefits are clear: I can now read materials more effeciantly, remember what I've read and put it into practice. I understand how my brain works when it comes to learning and memory so I give myself what I need to maximise my learning.

What to Do The Night BeforeThe kind of day you’re going to have tomorrow starts with what you do the night before. Consider this your “how to build muscle, stay lean and have more energy” cheat sheet. Building muscle and living lean is, at it’s core, about building the right habits and repeating those actions consistently. A breakdown of exactly what you should do every day to build muscle, shed fat, and feel awesome. Instead of being jam-packed with sugar and other useless ingredients, a Muscle Latte is full of nutrients that will help you build muscle and burn fat.

Leave a small task undoneTo jump start your productivity the next day, leave a task open from today. GitHub also has this feature, every day you contribute to a repo, they mark that day in green. Well, that's exactly the point, you'll get a boost of motivation from it. After getting a chain of X marks in the calendar, you are motivated by not wanting to break the chain. His system is to have a wall calendar and mark an X on it for every day that he put effort into writing his jokes.

But combining it with story would really transform the value, experience and novelty. At the end of the cycle I was convinced on the idea of writing stories with comic illustrations to support them. And for the past 5,000+ years storytelling has been the everlasting way of sharing ideas and messages with people. The idea transformed from comic strips of the story as a storyboard, to a singular illustration, painting, or artwork. IDEA: Focus on quality, share your messages through writing and accompany then with video.