Do you want to build the most successful city state of the 21st century? Well here's how to do it like Lee Kuan Yew:

@BenWilsonTweets 5,854 minutes of How to Take Over the World this year. Still the best long form breakdowns of great lives I’ve found.

" Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal." - Alexander the Great

I just found a new favorite quote about speed: "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." (Mario Andretti)

Shout out to Podcasters who educate me: 1. @Markmanson - his deep dive focus on a certain topic has helped out so much! 2. @costofglory -Learning from the great Ancients always helps in modern times! 3. @BenWilsonTweets - Like Cost of Glory, generalized & well researched. Cant

Good year for the show. And we're just getting started.

Spotify wrapped is such a tough scene for dads.

"In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats. " - Napoleon Bonaparte

“Larry Ellison is the most focused person I’ve ever seen when he has something to beat. Larry has to have an enemy. One of the biggest enemies he ever picks is Bill Gates. This was brilliant positioning. This is how he got Oracle in the media: Everybody at the time was

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in" - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The skillful man takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a few more chances; the less skillful man, sometimes by neglecting a single one, loses everything." - Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Do you know what fills me most with wonder? The powerlessness of force to establish anything. There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the end, the sword is always conquered by the mind.’ - Napoleon Bonaparte

"There is little success where there is little laughter" - Andrew Carnegie

"Have faith in yourself, but also have faith in faith. Not faith as others define it. Faith as you define it. Faith as faith defines itself in your hear" - Founder of Nike, Phil Knight

"Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment." - Phil Knight

“Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there’ is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop." - Founder of Nike, Phil Knight

"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, would be to be a god." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us." - Founder of Nike, Phil Knight

"In politics, an absurdity is not an impediment." - Napoleone Buonaparte