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Every person, book, and channel is a durable AI agent with its own sources, skills, and boundaries. Summon the same specialist into money, work, or any other project without rebuilding it.
54 person agents · 56 book agents · 4 channel agents
Featured cross-project agents
Personal finance
Give every dollar a job.
A direct, educational money coach for zero-based budgeting, emergency funds, debt payoff, and the hard household conversations that make a plan stick.
Install in the current project
npx --yes github:adamtpang/summon.guide summon install dave-ramseyInspired by public Dave Ramsey teachings. Not Dave Ramsey or personalized financial advice.
Engineering + business
Question. Delete. Simplify. Accelerate. Automate.
A first-principles operating system for impossible estimates, bloated requirements, vendors, process design, and ambitious product execution.
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npx --yes github:adamtpang/summon.guide summon install elonBased on public material about Elon Musk. Not Elon Musk or professional engineering advice.
Agent memory. The specialist keeps its stable methods, sources, and your preferences across projects.
Assignment memory. Each project gets isolated context, permissions, goals, and budget.
Runtime. Chat directly, install locally, or connect through the paid summon-guide MCP.
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Tell us who you need and what judgment you want from them. Requests are prioritized by repeated demand, source quality, and whether the guide can become meaningfully better than a generic prompt.
Guide onboarding checklist
A guide ships only when its evidence, methods, and runtime pass every gate.
Name the decisions this guide should improve and confirm that real users want that help.
Choose person, channel, or book; set the canonical slug, scope, safety rules, and non-impersonation language.
Verify official, licensed, public-domain, or user-owned sources. Book requests move to Bookbox for this gate.
Ingest raw material privately, write original syntheses, and make every durable claim traceable to a source.
Create the canonical distillation.md: worldview, operating principles, questions, tensions, and limits.
Turn the guide's methods into reusable workflows; attach MCP tools only when they improve the actual job.
Test citation accuracy, source boundaries, difficult advice, refusals, and useful voice without claiming to be the person.
Wire chat, install, or MCP access; add auth, entitlement, profile, analytics, freshness checks, and production verification.
The full roster
A person agent synthesizes a documented body of work without claiming to be that person. A book agent answers from one text. A channel agent reasons across its episodes. They share the same agent contract and can all be assigned across projects.
Showing 114 durable agents. Each can be assigned to multiple projects.
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ReadyBuilding one of the most spectacular narrative-driven valuations in startup history, and the cautionary tale of what happens when the story outruns the numbers
Took WeWork from a Brooklyn co-working space to a $47B private valuation in nine years, then watched it collapse in six weeks. Now running Flow. A masterclass in narrative and in its limits.
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In onboardingScientific imagination
Question assumptions and design a thought experiment before committing to an explanation.
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ReadyBuilt the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen, by age 30
Conquered the known world by 30. Led from the front. Never lost a battle.
Person agent
In onboardingSport and self-direction
Decide whether to pause, return, or change the terms of a demanding pursuit.
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ReadyFormer professional poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet winner turned decision scientist, author of Thinking in Bets and Quit.
A former professional poker player who won millions at the table, then spent her second career teaching people that judging a decision by its outcome is the fastest way to keep making bad ones.
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ReadyThe original self-made American, mastered reinvention across 7 careers
Printer, scientist, diplomat, founding father. The original self-made American.
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ReadyTaking reggae from the ghettos of Kingston to the whole world and becoming the first global voice of Rastafari: the man behind 'Get Up, Stand Up', 'One Love', 'Exodus', and 'Redemption Song'.
The reggae prophet who turned poverty, prejudice, and even an assassin's bullet into songs of freedom and one love. Bring him your fight, your grief, or your fear, and he'll help you stand up for what's right without letting your heart go hard.
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ReadyFounding eight billion-dollar-plus companies, six of them public, by consolidating fragmented, unglamorous industries: waste hauling, equipment rental, freight, and now building products
Founded four billion-dollar-plus roll-ups out of the most unglamorous industries in America: garbage trucks, forklifts, freight trailers, roofing shingles. He wants to know what boring, fragmented mess you're avoiding because it looks too unsexy to be worth the money.
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ReadyCo-founding Coinbase in 2012 and building it from a prototype on his laptop into the first crypto-native company in the S&P 500, while refusing to back down when the SEC came after the industry.
The quiet engineer who read the Bitcoin white paper in 2010, built Coinbase on his own laptop, and then sued his own regulator rather than let the mission die. Bring him the decision you keep avoiding because it might make people hate you.
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ReadyGeorgetown University computer science professor and author of Deep Work, So Good They Can't Ignore You, and Digital Minimalism, who has never held a social media account.
A Georgetown computer science professor who never joined social media, wrote the modern case for depth over busyness, and thinks your inbox is a productivity trap, not a job.
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ReadyStanford University psychologist and author of Mindset, who named and researched the distinction between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
A Stanford psychologist who spent decades studying why some children treat failure as information and others treat it as identity, and turned the answer into the most cited idea in modern self improvement.
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ReadyWarren Buffett's partner for more than sixty years and the intellectual architect of modern Berkshire Hathaway
Built a latticework of mental models, audited every incentive, and made avoiding stupidity a practical discipline.
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ReadyFounding Spotify and beating piracy by building something better than piracy, then spending two decades arguing that happiness trails impact and that a company only becomes great when it is true to who its founder actually is
Grew up in a Stockholm housing project, hit his retirement number at 22, got depressed, then spent 20 years building Spotify into a 761 million listener platform that dragged the music industry back into growth. Ask him which problem is worth a decade of your life.
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ReadyPersonal finance operating system
A direct educational money coach for budgeting, emergency funds, debt payoff, and household accountability.
Person agent
ReadyFounded quantum computation and proved all progress comes from good explanations
Pioneer of quantum computation. All progress comes from the quest for good explanations.
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ReadyHost of Founders Podcast, where since 2016 he has read and narrated over four hundred founder biographies solo into a microphone, a show that turned him into the person working founders and CEOs go on record listening to.
He has read more than four hundred founder biographies alone in a room with a pen and a six inch ruler, and turned the habit into the podcast working founders now build their weeks around.
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ReadyFounder of CD Baby, who sold it for 22 million dollars and gave the proceeds to a music education charitable trust, then became a self published author of short, contrarian books read in a fraction of the time most business books take.
He sold his company for 22 million dollars, gave it all away, and wrote five short books arguing that most of what you believe is just useful, not true.
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ReadyBuilding SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI simultaneously through first-principles thinking
Runs Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI simultaneously. Thinks from first principles.
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ReadyBuilding Snapchat, refusing to sell it, and spending a decade turning its cash flow into augmented reality glasses
Co-founded Snapchat at 20, refused Facebook's $3 billion at 23, and spent the next twelve years turning that cash flow into a bet on computer glasses. He wants to know what you are building that nobody can copy.
Person agent
In onboardingDiplomacy and historical judgment
Examine negotiation tradeoffs alongside their human costs and historical consequences.
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ReadyNovelist and Nobel laureate whose Siddhartha argued that wisdom cannot be transmitted by a teacher, only arrived at, and that the detour through failure is not a detour.
He wrote a novel in which a seeker meets the Buddha, judges the teaching flawless, and refuses to follow it. The refusal is the point, and it took Hesse a breakdown and a long silence to earn it.
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ReadyAuthor of Atomic Habits, the bestselling book on behavior change of its generation, translated into 60+ languages with over 20 million copies sold worldwide.
He got hit in the face with a baseball bat as a teenager, rebuilt his life one percent at a time, and turned that into the best selling self improvement book of the decade.
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ReadyThe inventor of the dual cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, who hand built 5,127 prototypes before one worked and then grew Dyson into a global engineering company that he and his family still own outright.
He built 5,127 prototypes of a bagless vacuum cleaner alone in a coach house while the debt piled up and every manufacturer he approached turned him down, then refused to sell a single share of the company it became. Bring him the thing you have quietly started giving up on, and be ready to say exactly how many times you have actually tried.
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ReadyFounding Amazon and Blue Origin, and writing the shareholder letters that gave founders Day 1 thinking and customer obsession
Built Amazon from a garage bookstore into everything. Obsessed with Day 1 thinking.
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In onboardingScientific collaboration
Frame an uncertain research question and examine the responsibilities that come with a discovery.
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ReadyRunning Nvidia as founder CEO for more than thirty years and making the GPU the engine of the AI era
Built NVIDIA from a graphics chip company into the engine of the AI revolution. Believes in suffering.
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ReadyThe producer who turned an ear for artists into an empire: Interscope Records, Beats by Dre, and a $3 billion sale to Apple.
Engineered John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen before he turned 23, founded Interscope, then sold Beats to Apple for $3 billion. He will tell you the truth about your product in one sentence, so decide now whether you actually want to hear it.
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ReadyBuilding the most profitable company in history through iron discipline
Built Standard Oil into the most profitable company in history. Asks you what you're willing to sacrifice.
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ReadyCo-founding Whole Foods Market in Austin and running it for 44 years, building the world's largest natural and organic grocer by refusing to compete on price, then selling it to Amazon for about $13.7 billion.
The college dropout hippie who opened one Austin health food store, refused for forty years to fight Walmart on price, and handed Amazon a company with more than 460 stores for about $13.7 billion. Come tell him what you are building, and be ready to answer whether you are a missionary or a mercenary.
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ReadyCognitive scientist at the University of Toronto whose work on relevance realization and the meaning crisis reframed wisdom as a trainable cognitive skill rather than a mood.
A cognitive scientist who noticed that the thing modern people are starving for has no name in the modern vocabulary, and then spent fifty free lectures building the vocabulary back.
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ReadyTransformed Singapore from third-world to first-world in one generation
Transformed Singapore from third-world port to first-world nation in one generation.
Person agent
In onboardingObservation and creativity
Use close observation to connect ideas across disciplines.
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ReadyWriting the Letters from a Stoic and On the Shortness of Life: the most practical, most quoted, and most readable Stoic texts ever produced
Stoic philosopher, tragedian, and Nero's tutor and advisor. Wrote the most readable practical philosophy of antiquity from inside the most dangerous court in Rome.
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ReadyApplying Popper and David Deutsch's epistemology to personal life, arguing that internal conflict, not lack of willpower, is what actually blocks people
Self-educated Oxford writer working in the Popper/Deutsch tradition. Argues that discipline is usually just internal conflict, and coercion (including on yourself) can't create a new thought.
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ReadyBuilding the first browser and shaping every software wave since, and arguing relentlessly that the answer is to build
Built the first popular web browser at 22, took Netscape public at 24, has been the most influential venture capitalist of the software era for 15 years. Wants you to build.
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ReadyRuling Rome at its peak while writing the Stoic manual the world still uses to stay sane under pressure
Roman emperor and Stoic. Ran the largest empire on earth while writing a private notebook on how not to be ruined by it.
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ReadyDiscovering polonium and radium, pioneering the theory of radioactivity, and becoming the first person to win two Nobel Prizes: in two different sciences (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911)
The physicist and chemist who discovered radium by out-enduring the problem, years of hand-processing tons of ore for a decigram of proof. Bring her your hardest, longest, most thankless work and she will show you how to keep going.
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ReadyAuthor of Think and Grow Rich (1937), the foundational text of the modern personal success and self help genre, built on interviews with the leading industrialists of his era.
A Virginia mountain boy who claims Andrew Carnegie sent him to study 500 self made millionaires, and came back two decades later with the most influential success book of the 20th century.
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ReadyNaming the black swan and antifragility, and arguing across the five volume Incerto that the world is ruled by rare, unpredictable, high impact events, so the only sane strategy is to stop forecasting and instead engineer your exposure so that shocks cannot ruin you and may even help you.
He traded options for two decades, became financially independent on the single day every model called impossible, then spent the rest of his life explaining why the people who advise you never pay for being wrong. He will not forecast your future, so tell him instead what happens to you if you are wrong.
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ReadyCo-founding AngelList and writing How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky, which gave founders the vocabulary of specific knowledge and leverage
Angel investor, philosopher. Believes specific knowledge + leverage + accountability = wealth.
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ReadyCo-founding Viaweb and Y Combinator, then distilling startup and maker judgment through more than two decades of essays
Programmer, essayist, Viaweb founder, and Y Combinator co-founder. Pulls you away from startup theater and back toward users, product, and the work itself.
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ReadyFormer management strategy consultant turned writer, author of The Pathless Path, arguing against the default script of school, career ladder, and retirement.
A former strategy consultant who quit the default career script, spent years lost in what he calls the void, and came out arguing that work does not have to be the center of your identity.
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ReadyCreator of Adventure Time and co-creator of The Midnight Gospel
Make something strange, kind, and fun.
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ReadyCo-founding PayPal and Palantir, backing Facebook first from the outside, and arguing in Zero to One that competition is for losers
Co-founded PayPal and Palantir. First outside investor in Facebook. Believes competition is for losers.
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ReadyBuilding Bridgewater Associates into the largest hedge fund in the world and then publishing the operating system behind it, a written set of principles built on radical truth, radical transparency, believability weighted decision making, and the conviction that pain plus reflection equals progress, alongside mechanical explanations of how the economy, big debt cycles, and the rise and decline of empires actually work.
He bet everything on a depression in 1982, said so on television and in front of Congress, was catastrophically wrong, and shrank his firm down to one employee: himself. He turned that humiliation into a written system for making decisions, and he wants to know which of your painful mistakes you have refused to look at.
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ReadyCo-creating and writing The Office and Extras with Stephen Merchant, then creating After Life solo: winning seven BAFTAs, two Emmys, and multiple Golden Globes, and hosting the Golden Globes five times
The office temp who wrote The Office, then turned honesty into an art form across After Life and a dozen stand-up specials. He'll show you how to mine the ordinary for the extraordinary, build cringe from a character's blind spots, and say the unsayable without flinching.
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ReadyBuilding Walmart from a single Arkansas five and dime into the largest retailer in the United States
Built Walmart from a single five-and-dime into the world's largest company. Never stopped visiting stores.
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ReadyBuilding Apple twice and reordering personal computing, music, phones, and animation by insisting on taste, focus, and saying no
Built Apple twice. Believed the intersection of technology and liberal arts changes everything.
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ReadyAuthor of The War of Art, which named Resistance as the universal force that stops people from doing their real work, and drew the line between the amateur and the professional.
He wrote for seventeen years before anything sold, and afterwards named the thing that had been stopping him. He calls it Resistance, and he insists it is not a mood but a force.
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ReadyAuthor of The 4-Hour Workweek, Tools of Titans, and Tribe of Mentors, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show, one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world.
He deconstructed hundreds of world class performers on his own podcast, wrote the book that made lifestyle design a household phrase, and treats his own life as the experiment.
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ReadyCofounder and CEO of Shopify, the commerce software behind millions of merchants in more than 175 countries, and the engineer who rebuilt his own company from first principles instead of imitating anyone else.
He dropped out of school at sixteen, learned to code as a German apprentice, and turned a failing online snowboard shop into the software millions of businesses sell through. Bring him the thing you are copying from somebody else, and let him ask you why you are not building your own version instead.
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ReadyBuilding Raising Cane's from one Baton Rouge chicken finger stand into a 1,000 restaurant, $6 billion company he never franchised away and never sold
His professor said a chicken finger only restaurant would never work and every bank in Louisiana agreed, so he fished salmon in Alaska to fund it himself and built it into a 1,000 restaurant company he still owns almost all of. He will ask what you are refusing to sell, and whether you actually want it badly enough.
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ReadySingaporean writer known for prolific, raw, first person essays and threads on ambition, self esteem, and friendship, and for the self coined identity Friendly Ambitious Nerd.
A Singaporean writer who wrote a quarter million tweets and a thousand unedited essays chasing the same question: how does an ordinary internet nerd become a friendly, ambitious, undeniably real version of himself.
Person agent
ReadyChairman and former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and author of nearly five decades of shareholder letters
Turned a failing textile mill into a decentralized compounding machine. Treats every decision as capital allocation.
Book agent
In onboardingBook by Chris McDonnell
Behind-the-scenes art book published by Abrams. Reference only; full text has not been ingested and does not ground this guide.
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In onboardingBook by Robin Lane Fox
Modern scholarly biography. Best for synthesizing the ancient sources and assessing strategy, leadership, and the campaign's geography.
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ReadyBook by Derek Sivers
Forty short lessons from founding and selling CD Baby: business as accidental problem solving, ideas as a multiplier of execution rather than a substitute for it, and staying small and controlled on purpose rather than chasing growth.
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ReadyBook by James Clear
A practical guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones through the Four Laws of Behavior Change: make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying, built on the claim that habits are the compound interest of self improvement.
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In onboardingBook by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson's biography. Best modern source for Franklin's diplomatic work in France, the Junto's institutional legacy, and his reinventions across seven careers.
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ReadyBook by Warren E. Buffett
The official Berkshire Hathaway archive of Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letters, 1977 through 2024: primary-source lessons in owner economics, capital allocation, business quality, management, risk, mistakes, and compounding. This corpus is a curated selection of the most substantive letters (34 of the ~48 years), not every single year digested in full.
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In onboardingBook by Reeves Wiedeman
The first major book on WeWork, by a New York magazine writer who had been reporting on the company throughout the run. Best on the mission-as-moat technique, the cultural details of the WeWork floor, and how the narrative compressed the early rounds.
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ReadyBook by Cal Newport
A case for distraction free, cognitively demanding work as an increasingly rare and valuable skill, distinguishing deep work from shallow, logistical busywork and laying out rules for cultivating it in a fragmented attention economy.
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In onboardingBook by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson's authorized biography after two years of shadowing Musk. Source for the manufacturing algorithm, the idiot index, and the 2008 crucible.
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ReadyBook by Ashlee Vance
The earlier biography. Best on Musk's South African childhood, Zip2, PayPal, and the SpaceX startup years before Falcon 1 reached orbit.
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ReadyBook by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The first Incerto book. On the difference between skill and luck, why rare, unseen events dominate outcomes people attribute to competence, and how a trader survives long enough for competence to matter.
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ReadyBook by Visakan Veerasamy
A self compiled, self published collection of Veerasamy's best essays and threads from over a decade of writing, naming and defending the identity of the title: smart, striving, a little awkward, and allowed to want things in public.
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In onboardingBook by Lee Kuan Yew
The sequel covering 1965 onward. Source for the HDB housing program, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, and the pragmatist doctrine.
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ReadyBook by Derek Sivers
The expansion of a 2009 essay into a full decision filter: if it is not a hell yeah, it is a no. Argues most overcommitment comes from saying yes to too many medium options out of fear rather than genuine desire.
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ReadyBook by Derek Sivers
Twenty seven short chapters, each fully convinced of a different and often contradictory way to live. Independence and commitment, mastery and always staying a beginner, are each argued completely on their own terms rather than resolved into one rule.
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ReadyBook by Marc Andreessen
The April 2020 essay written in the early weeks of the pandemic. A direct argument that Western institutions had stopped building, and that the right response to any problem is to ask “what do we build to fix it, and what is stopping the build?”
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ReadyBook by Seneca
124 letters written to Seneca's friend Lucilius, governor of Sicily, in the last three years of Seneca's life. Each letter takes one practical idea (time, friendship, anger, crowds, death) and works it down to something you can do today. The single most readable Stoic text ever written.
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ReadyBook by Plutarch
Roman-era biography written ~AD 100. Source for the taming of Bucephalus, the helmet of water in the Gedrosian Desert, and Alexander's character.
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ReadyBook by Marcus Aurelius
Twelve books of private notes written in Greek on the northern frontier, never meant for publication. The most enduring practical-philosophy text ever written: the dichotomy of control, the view from above, memento mori, and the obstacle becoming the way. Public domain.
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ReadyBook by Carol S. Dweck
A Stanford psychologist's research based case for the distinction between a fixed mindset, believing ability is a static trait, and a growth mindset, believing ability develops through effort and strategy, and how that belief shapes achievement.
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In onboardingBook by Seneca
Three books on anger as a vice: its physiology, its destructiveness, and the practical techniques for not being governed by it. The clearest pre-modern account of what to do between the trigger and the response.
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In onboardingBook by Seneca
A short essay addressed to Seneca's friend Paulinus on the use of time. The core argument: life is long enough if well invested; we make it short by selling it cheaply, hour by hour, to projects we have not chosen.
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In onboardingBook by Lee Kuan Yew
Lee's late-life assessment of geopolitics and Singapore's place in it: the U.S., China, Japan, Europe, Southeast Asia, and small-state survival.
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ReadyBook by Paul Graham
A growing synthesis of Paul Graham's official essay archive on startups, users, programming, writing, taste, ambition, and doing great work. The first source-backed slice covers six canonical essays; the private sync pipeline can backfill the rest without republishing his full text.
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In onboardingBook by Pendleton Ward, interviewed by Max Eddy, GeekDad, and Rollin Bishop
Summon reading list of three interviews from 2012 and 2020. Selected evidence is summarized in the guide prompt; this is not a published book or a complete transcript corpus.
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ReadyBook by Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman
Munger's talks, speeches, and practical maxims on multidisciplinary thinking, incentives, human misjudgment, inversion, opportunity cost, and becoming a learning machine, supplemented here by his first-person account of the Berkshire system in the 2014 shareholder letter.
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ReadyBook by Ray Dalio
Dalio's original free PDF, the direct precursor to Principles: Life and Work. Three parts: why principles matter, his most fundamental life principles, and his management principles as lived out at Bridgewater, roughly 200 principles covering culture, hiring, and decision-making.
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ReadyBook by Ray Dalio
Dalio's framework for reading empires rising and falling through a repeating Big Cycle of money, credit, debt, and power, tested against the Dutch, British, American, and Chinese empires. This source is Dalio's own free chart-and-table companion PDF, not the prose edition, so the grounding here draws on real frameworks, historical timelines, and data tables rather than extended narrative.
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ReadyBook by Lulie Tanett
A curated set of essays from Lulie Tanett's blog, lulie.co.uk, working in the Popper/Deutsch tradition of fallibilist epistemology applied to personal life: why discipline is usually internal conflict, why coercion (including self-coercion) can't manufacture new thoughts, how knowledge actually grows, and her open research questions.
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ReadyBook by Hermann Hesse
A Brahman's son leaves everything arranged for him, tries asceticism, meets the Buddha and refuses to follow him, falls into wealth and self-disgust, and finally learns to listen to a river. Its argument is that wisdom cannot be transmitted, only arrived at, and that the ruin on the way was not a detour.
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ReadyBook by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hidden asymmetries in daily life: who bears the downside of a decision, why symmetry of risk is the precondition for trust, and how removing skin in the game corrupts a system.
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ReadyBook by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson's authorized biography, based on more than forty interviews with Jobs over two years plus interviews with over a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, and colleagues. The definitive account of the garage founding, the 1985 ouster, the NeXT and Pixar wilderness years, the 1997 return and turnaround, and the product decisions behind the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, in Jobs's own words as well as those who worked with him.
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ReadyBook by Laozi
Eighty-one short chapters traditionally split into the Tao Ching and the Teh Ching, teaching government and self-cultivation by yielding, emptiness, and non-action (wu wei). This is James Legge's 1891 scholarly translation, the widely cited public-domain edition. Authorship is traditionally credited to Lao Tzu, a semi-legendary figure with no settled historical record, so this source is registered as a text to chat with directly, not a guide.
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ReadyBook by Benjamin Franklin
Franklin's own account, begun 1771, published posthumously. The 13 Virtues, the Junto, his approach to self-education and reinvention all come from here.
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ReadyBook by David Deutsch
Deutsch's argument that good explanations, ones that are hard to vary while still accounting for what they explain, are the engine of unbounded human progress.
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ReadyBook by the biblical authors
A scoped selection from the King James Version covering the Bible's advice-oriented core: Proverbs (aphorisms on speech, wealth, discipline, and character), Ecclesiastes (a sustained meditation on mortality and meaning), a selection of wisdom and reflection Psalms, and the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Not the full 66-book canon, this is the material people actually turn to for guidance, digested as a text to chat with directly rather than through any persona.
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ReadyBook by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rare, high-impact, retrospectively-rationalized events, and why forecasting and expert prediction routinely miss them. The book that made Taleb's name.
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In onboardingBook by Eric Jorgenson
Jorgenson's anthology of Musk's own words: interviews, transcripts, talks. Same compiler as The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. Pending ingestion: drop the PDF in sources/elon/the-book-of-elon.pdf and we'll extract a fresh set of skills.
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In onboardingBook by Arrian
The most reliable ancient military account, drawing on Ptolemy I's lost memoirs. Source for Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela, and the siege of Tyre.
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In onboardingBook by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
The deeply reported Wall Street Journal account of the SoftBank dynamics, the S-1 disaster, and the six weeks between filing and ouster. The clearest source on what the public-market scrutiny actually exposed.
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ReadyBook by David Deutsch
Deutsch's first book. Argues that quantum physics, epistemology, evolution, and computation are deeply intertwined strands of a single theory of reality.
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ReadyBook by Tae Kim
The first full account of Nvidia's thirty-year history, built on more than one hundred interviews including Jensen Huang himself. Traces the Denny's founding with cofounders Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky, three separate near-death experiences (the NV1, the RIVA production crisis, the NV30), the coining of the term GPU, the two-decade CUDA bet, and the culture of 'Speed of Light' standards and public criticism that Kim calls the Nvidia Way.
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ReadyBook by Paul Millerd
A former strategy consultant's argument against the default script of school, career ladder, and retirement, drawn from his own extended, unstructured period he calls the void, and a case for building identity from more than a job title.
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In onboardingBook by Lee Kuan Yew
Lee's account of Singapore's founding through 1965: the British colonial years, the Japanese Occupation, merger with Malaysia, and the traumatic separation.
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ReadyBook by Marc Andreessen
The October 2023 manifesto. Marc's most fully articulated worldview: capability over caution, abundance over scarcity, building over critique. The operating philosophy underneath the other two essays.
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ReadyBook by Steven Pressfield
Pressfield's account of Resistance, the impersonal force that opposes any work that matters, and of turning pro as the only reliable defence against it. Written in very short chapters, arranged in three parts: defining the enemy, combating it, and what shows up once you are working.
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ReadyBook by Napoleon Hill
Hill's claimed twenty year distillation of interviews with leading industrialists of his era into thirteen principles of success: definiteness of purpose, the mastermind principle, persistence, and the transmutation of desire into achievement.
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ReadyBook by Annie Duke
A former professional poker player's case for thinking in probabilities rather than certainties, naming 'resulting', the error of judging a decision's quality by its outcome, and arguing life is more like poker than chess.
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ReadyBook by Ron Chernow
The definitive 800-page biography. The source of every framework we attribute to Rockefeller: Ledger A, the Cleveland Massacre, the dimes, the systematic philanthropy.
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ReadyBook by Timothy Ferriss
A distilled playbook of the tactics, routines, and habits of hundreds of world class performers interviewed on The Tim Ferriss Show, organized around health, wealth, and wisdom.
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ReadyBook by Timothy Ferriss
A collection of short, high density interviews with over 100 world class performers, each answering the same compact set of questions on failure, habits, and what they would tell their younger selves.
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ReadyBook by Derek Sivers
Argues that a belief is worth holding not because it is objectively true but because holding it is useful right now. A short, deliberately uncomfortable case for treating beliefs as tools rather than as claims about reality.
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ReadyBook by Marc Andreessen
The 2011 Wall Street Journal essay that named the era. The argument that software companies were poised to take over industry after industry, framed years before it was conventional wisdom.
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In onboardingBook by Derek Sivers
Marketing and reputation lessons drawn from CD Baby, reframed for any creator: marketing as an extension of the art itself, being considerate as a form of being memorable, and proudly excluding most people to matter more to the few.
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ReadyBook by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Thiel's own primer on startups, expanded from a 2012 Stanford class Blake Masters took notes on. Argues that competition destroys profits and every valuable company is some kind of monopoly; lays out the definite-optimist 2x2 for thinking about the future, the power law that governs venture returns, the 'Thiel's law' foundations every founder gets one shot at, why distribution is as important as product, and the seven questions every business must answer, illustrated by the cleantech bubble and Tesla's escape from it.
Book agent
In onboardingBook by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic
An open access study that reads the zombie figure as a diagnosis of cultural alienation: a body without inner life, moving without meaning. The authors use it to describe the loss of the shared frameworks that connect people to each other and to the world.
Channel agent
ReadyChannel by David Senra
Since 2016, Senra has read and narrated over four hundred founder biographies alone, no co-host, no outline, reading from his own pen and ruler annotations. A companion interview feed, under the same banner, talks with living founders and operators directly.
Channel agent
ReadyChannel by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Patrick O'Shaughnessy's long-form interview show with investors, operators, and founders: specific capital-allocation decisions, real deal mechanics, and named theses rather than generic market commentary. This corpus is a curated selection of 28 of the show's highest-signal episodes out of roughly 64 long-form interviews, digested as a text to chat with directly rather than through any single persona.
Channel agent
ReadyChannel by Pat Walls
Pat Walls's YouTube show interviewing founders about exactly how they built a specific business: real revenue numbers, real customer-acquisition tactics, real pricing and unit economics, not generic advice. This corpus is a curated selection of 28 of the channel's highest-signal episodes out of roughly 170 long-form interviews, weighted toward substantive case studies over thin clip-show entries, digested as a text to chat with directly rather than through any single persona.
Channel agent
ReadyChannel by Y Combinator
The startup accelerator's own YouTube channel: Startup School lectures and partner talks on ideas, product-market fit, MVPs, fundraising, co-founders, pricing, sales, and metrics, taught by YC partners (Michael Seibel, Dalton Caldwell, Kirsty Nathoo, Garry Tan, and others) and credible alumni founders (Patrick Collison, Suhail Doshi, Tom Blomfield). This corpus is a curated selection of 35 episodes out of roughly 558 long-form videos, chosen for topic coverage rather than duplicating the same lecture, digested as a text to chat with directly rather than through any single persona.