#186 Phil Knight (Nike)

SpaceX is one of the most dominant companies on the planet and their performance gap just keeps getting bigger. In 2025, SpaceX launched more mass to orbit than every other provider on Earth combined. MUCH MORE: every payload from China, Russia, Europe, and all American launchers ...  Show more

Running Down A Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love by Bill Gurley has been one of the most valuable talks I've heard. For years I have been using ideas from that talk to build this podcast. Bill has written a new book based on that talk: Runnin' Down a Dream: Ho ...  Show more

2023 marks year #28 for me in the field of leadership and personal optimization. Why do I continue to work so hard on my craft and my online courses and my keynote speeches and the books that I write? For YOU.

I was a litigation lawyer. I was laughed at for wanting to ...

I’ll be 60 in the not so distant future. Friends ask me if I’ll retire soon. I smile. “Why would I give up my oxygen?” To lead is to serve, yes?

 I still feel like a beginner. Much work left to do. Many places left to explore. More books still to write. Good people left ...

The regular person in us is frustrated by all this. But the Stoic in us knows that this is leading us, teaching us, shaping us. Seneca said that misfortune toughens us ...

On today’s episode, Clay reviews Nassim Taleb’s book – Fooled by Randomness. Nassim Taleb is a Lebanon-born American mathematician and statistician whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. He’s very well known for his popular books, including The ...  Show more