Sitemap - 2022 - The Hard Fork by Marvin Liao
Always Be Prepared to Pay: There is NO Free Lunch
The Godfather: A Movie Classic Full of Life Lessons for Men
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 25th, 2022
Nostalgia: It’s a Hell of a Drug
Lessons from the Hell’s Angels: Taking Care of Business
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 18th, 2022
The 3 Levels of Business: The Framework for Your Career Growth
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 11th, 2022
"Happy at Any Cost": Lessons from the Amazing Life and Tragedy of Tony Hsieh
We’re All Broken Inside: If Successful, Even More So The Case
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 4th, 2022
Becoming a Monster: The Path and Philosophy for Great Success and Growth
Going Home is Hard, Staying Home is Harder
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 27th, 2022
Player Versus Player: Life is Work & Pain
Global Maximum Versus Local Maximum: Understand What Level You Are Truly Competing At
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 20th, 2022
Be a Live Player: How to be Exceptional in Life
Knowing When to Quit: Sometimes You Have to Move On
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 13th, 2022
The Path to Progress, Fulfillment & Fun: Taking Risks
Easy Come, Easy Go: Understanding the Universal Law of Money & Success
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 6th, 2022
The Dumbest Person in the Room: Always Slightly Behind the Curve in Silicon Valley
Limiting Beliefs: Invert, Invert, Invert to Get to Bigger & Better Life
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 30th, 2022
The Amazing Age of Access: Parkour as a Metaphor
Let Your Rage Flow: Anger as a Mechanism for Progress and Achievement
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 23rd, 2022
Die with Honor: Think Long Term & Go Down Fighting
Infinite Pacing: Activity & Inactivity, Rest & Recover to an Interesting Life
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 16th, 2022
‘The Guardian’: A Story of Mentorship, Transitions and Sacrifice
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 9th, 2022
The Agony and Ecstasy: The Blade Cuts Both Ways
Idleness is the Devil’s Workshop: Cursed are the Idle, Blessed are the Busy
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 2nd, 2022
The First Rule of Personal Finance & Happiness: Pay Yourself First!
Ageism & The Reality of Silicon Valley: Beware of Older Tech Folks (Like Me)
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 25th, 2022
The Ground Truth: Go to the Frontline!
Wisdom from My Violin Teacher: Relationships & Grand Memories Are the Whole Point of Life
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 18th, 2022
Dreams Versus Reality: You Need Both To Truly Live & Thrive
Living in our Own Matrix: Reality is a Choice
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 11th, 2022
Feast or Famine: Know Where you Are in the Cycle
The Breaking of the Modern Mind: The Curse of the Attention Economy
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 4th, 2022
The Right Way to Look at Personal Finance: Lifestyle Cash versus Building Equity
The Real Point of Life: The Search for Beauty
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 28th, 2022
Travel as a Tool: Why You Need to be Global
Recreating 2006: My Magic Year of Personal HyperGrowth
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 21st, 2022
The Eternal War: the War Within Ourselves
The Most Important Thing in Life: Just be in the Game
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 14th, 2022
Finding Your Happy Place: The World is Your Oyster
Age is Just a Number: Older is Not Wiser, Younger is Not More Youthful
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 7th, 2022
Data Volume and Sample Set Matters: Becoming a Better Venture Investor
Pain is Information: Embrace it
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 31st, 2022
Realistic Idealism: The Way to Progress
Every Little bit Helps: The Game of Inches
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 24th, 2022
Tolerance versus Intolerance: Setting Rules for Life
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 17th, 2022
Be Like a Light Bulb: The Importance of Resting Ethic
The Moral Imperative of Every Man: Be Hard to Kill
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 10th, 2022
Brutality Works: The “Whiplash” School of Education & Training
Pain is Information: A Tool for Self Development & Better Self Management
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 3rd, 2022
The Self Destructive Nature of Humans: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
Strategic Depth & Personal Finances: Part Political Rant & Part Financial Freedom
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 26th, 2022
It’s Okay to Be Different & Weird: But You Better Be Strong Too
We Have All the Time in the World: Living in the Present
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 19th, 2022
Treating Life Choices Like Playing in a Casino: A Framework
You Need a Tribe: Lone Wolves Don’t Make it
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 12th, 2022
“100 Foot Wave”: Why so Many Entrepreneurs are like Surfers
The Rule of 7: Entrepreneurship and Financial Independence is Key to Survival & Freedom
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 5th, 2022
Having A Big Mission & Taking Action: A Moral Imperative
Parsing Out the Truth As the Truth Will Set You Free: Facing Painful Reality
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 29th, 2022
Tripwires Over TimeFrames: Using PreSet Rules for Preventing Loss & Pain
Batten Down the Hatches: Massive Waves Coming
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 22nd, 2022
Details Matter: Importance of Operations and Process in Growing Startups
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 15th, 2022
Having Life Heroes: Modeling Behavior & Attitudes
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 8th, 2022
The Human Law of Unintended Consequences: How the Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
The Inevitable Great Reckoning: An American Story and A Personal One
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 1st, 2022
Counting the Uncountable: Power of Intangibles
9 Meals to Crazy: The Real World Strikes Back
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Apr 24th, 2022
Tactical Darwinism: Survival is Victory
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Apr 17th, 2022
Celebrate When It’s Over: Complacency Kills and Paranoia Wins
Facing Your Fears: The True Underlying Reasons for Your Bad Decisions and Bad Behavior
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Apr 10th, 2022
Rise of the Marcher Lords: Danger from the Edges & the Importance of Environment
The Death Zone and the Will to Win: Why Big Companies and Old Powers Lose
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Apr 3rd, 2022
The Alpinist: Amazing Life Lessons on the Frontiers of Climbing
Forced Obsolescence is a Feature, Not a Bug: Staying Relevant in the Tech Industry (or Any Industry)
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Mar 27th, 2022
Putting Things in Perspective: Feeding Gratitude
Living on Multiple Grids: Towards Being a Sovereign Individual
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Mar 20th, 2022
The Hell of Future Spiraling: How to Manage Uncertainty
When Sadness Turns to Rage: Managing Yourself
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Mar 13th, 2022
Fighting FOMO: Learning to Play Your Own Game
Revenge of the Real World: Painful Implications of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Mar 6th, 2022
Power of Obliquity: Having the Right End Goals
New Year Habit: Doing This One Thing Every Day Guarantees A Better Life
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 27th, 2022
Bad Days: Why It’s Okay to Wallow In your Pain (For A Short Time) Before You Face the Future
“Apocalypse Now Redux”: Lessons from the Heart of Darkness
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 20th, 2022
Lions Led by Donkeys: “A World Undone”
Why Conspiracy Theorists are Usually Wrong: Because Humans Can’t stop being Humans
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 13th, 2022
Be Water: The Story of Bruce Lee, An Original Cultural Pioneer
Entering A Global and Decentralized World: Why You Need to Both Localize and Internationalize NOW!
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 6th, 2022
Macro versus Micro: the Challenges of Investing Well as a Venture Capitalist
Staring Down the Abyss: the Reality of Entrepreneurship
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 30th, 2022
“The Lost City of Z”: Adventures on the Frontier
Quality over Quantity: Tracking Smart People to Find the Future
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 23rd, 2022
Work Life Choices, Not Work Life Balance
“Hard Water”: The Magic of Learning & Mixing Across Sports & Other Disciplines
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 16th, 2022
"YellowStone": The TV series that Captures the American Paradox
Notes from “Roadrunner”: Awesome life lessons from the legendary Anthony Bourdain
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 9th, 2022
Trauma with a small T: Therapy & How to Learn About What Drives you
Why is Everyone So Angry?: Behavioral Psychology in the time of Pandemics and Lockdowns
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 2nd, 2022
Things Fall Apart: The First Step to Rebirth & Rebuilding in the New Year