Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierachy.

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

Ignore people playing the status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

You're not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain financial freedom

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.

The internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.

Play iterated games. All the return in life, whether in wealth, relationships or knowledge, come from compound interest.

Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and above all else integrity.

Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.

Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both. You will be unstoppable.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.

Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

When specific knowledge is taught, it's through apprenticeships, not schools.

Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.

Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.

The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.

"Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth" - Archimedes

Fortunes requires leverage. Business comer from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).

Capital means money. To raise money, apply you specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.

Labour means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labour leverage will impress your parents, but don't waste your life chasing it.

Capital and Labour are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it you you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.

Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.

An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centres for heat and space efficiency. Use it.

If you can't code, write books, and blogs, record videos and podcasts.

Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.

Judgement require experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.

There is no skill called "business." Avoid business magazines and classes.