Julio's Almanack

Julio Froment
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Hi, I'm Julio! I share ideas from timeless books to help you become better, richer, and wiser.

Episodes

  1. 27 Jun

    Nassim Taleb - Antifragile (18 Key Ideas I Learned From Reading the Book)

    🎧 Get a 20% discount on BeFreed by signing up with my link - https://www.befreed.ai/?ref=LittleAlmanack (and start learning from 10K+ podcast-style audio lessons based on books) 💌 My weekly newsletter where I share a timeless idea every Friday - https://www.littlealmanack.com/ ------------------------- CHAPTERS0:00 - Introduction8:10 - Idea #1: Measure Fragility, Not Risk11:47 - Idea #2: Please Behead Me17:27 - Idea #3: Adopt a Mindset of Necessity20:00 - Idea #4: Overcompensation23:30 - Idea #5: Touristification30:51 - Idea #6: Antifragile at the Expense of Others37:09 - Idea #7: Pseudo-Stabilization42:10 - Idea #8: Naive Interventionism and Iatrogenics47:31 - Idea #9: Always Have Redundancies51:09 - Idea #10: The Barbell55:11 - Idea #11: The Green Lumber Fallacy58:46 - Idea #12: The Survival of Ideas1:00:35 - Idea #13: Lecturing Birds How to Fly1:03:13 - Idea #14: Small Is Beautiful and Less Fragile1:08:55 - Idea #15: Nonlinearities1:10:00 - Idea #16: Aging in Reverse — The Lindy Effect1:14:55 - Idea #17: Fasting1:17:53 - Idea #18: Heroism

  2. 18 May

    Andrew Wilkinson - Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire (11 Insights I Learned)

    📚 Try Shortform free for 5 days and get 20% off: https://shortform.com/almanack⁠ 💌 My newsletter where I share a timeless idea some Fridays (expect it once a month): ⁠⁠https://www.littlealmanack.com 📙 My (free) ebook 43 Nuggets to Become Better, Richer, and Wiser: ⁠⁠https://pickingnuggets.com ------------------------- CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 1:05 - Insight #1: The Advantage of Being Lazy 3:49 - Insight #2: Business Is About Solving Problems for Other People 8:23 - Insight #3: There’s No Harm in Asking 15:37 - Insight #4: Most People Hate Risk 16:39 - Insight #5: Be the Only One in Your Category 19:30 - Insight #6: Create Goodwill 20:15 - Insight #7: Save and Invest 23:18 - Insight #8: Anti-Goals 27:31 - Insight #9: The Best Investors Think in Decades 28:45 - Insight #10: Invest in What You Know 29:42 - Insight #11: No One Is Impressed with Your Possessions as Much as You Are DISCLAIMER Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you!

  3. 28 Jan

    Nassim Taleb - Skin In The Game (16 Ideas I Learned)

    👉 Blog post version - https://www.littlealmanack.com/p/skin-in-the-game-nassim-taleb 🟠 My notebook with over 5,000 insights (Doers Notebook) - https://www.doersnotebook.com/ 📚 Get a 20% discount with Shortform using my link - https://shortform.com/almanack 💌 My weekly newsletter where I share a timeless idea every Friday - https://www.littlealmanack.com/ 📙 My (free) ebook 43 Nuggets to Become Better, Richer, and Wiser - https://pickingnuggets.com/ ------------------------- CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 0:59 - Idea #1: Never Lose Touch with Reality 9:55 - Idea #2: Skin in the Game is about Honor 13:35 - Idea #3: Soul in the Game 19:13 - Idea #4: Heroes Were Not Library Rats 23:52 - Idea #5: The Public and the Private 26:00 - Idea #6: Unpopular Virtue 29:46 - Idea #7: Beware of Advice that Benefits the Advice-Giver and Never Harms Him 33:07 - Idea #8: Talking One’s Book & Revealed Preferences 38:02 - Idea #9: The Minority Rule 46:06 - Idea #10: Employee vs Contractor 50:00 - Idea #11: The Origin of Envy 55:28 - Idea #12: The Lindy Effect 1:01:38 - Idea #13: Simplicity and Complication 1:06:32 - Idea #14: The Agency Problem 1:11:11 - Idea #15: How to Make True Friends 1:13:51 - Idea #16: Rationality is about Survival DISCLAIMER Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you!

  4. 17/12/2025

    Nassim Taleb - The Black Swan (21 Ideas I Learned)

    👉 The Black Swan (Amazon) - https://amzn.to/4j5tVnE 👉 Blog post version - https://www.littlealmanack.com/p/the-black-swan-nassim-taleb 🟠 My notebook with over 5,000 insights (Doers Notebook) - https://www.doersnotebook.com/ 📚 Get a 20% discount with Shortform using my link - https://www.shortform.com/almanack 💌 My weekly newsletter where I share a timeless idea every Friday - https://www.littlealmanack.com/ 📙 My (free) ebook 43 Nuggets to Become Better, Richer, and Wiser - https://pickingnuggets.com/ ------------------------- CHAPTERS 0:00 - Introduction 4:47 - Idea #1: Focus on the Outliers 8:49 - Idea #2: Platonicity 12:31 - Idea #3: The Anti-Library 15:46 - Idea #4: Scalable and non-scalable professions 22:16 - Idea #5: The Province of Mediocristan 24:34 - Idea #6: The Province of Extremistan 27:17 - Idea #7: The Problem of Induction 30:20 - Idea #8: Black Swans are always relative to knowledge 31:08 - Idea #9: The Round-trip Fallacy 33:12 - Idea #10: The Error of Confirmation (aka THE CONFIRMATION BIAS) 35:43 - Idea #11: The basis for true Self-Confidence 40:48 - Idea #12: The Narrative Fallacy 44:09 - Idea #13: Silent Evidence 48:06 - Idea #14: The Ludic Fallacy 54:32 - Idea #15: Epistemic Arrogance & Epistemic Humility 56:56 - Idea #16: The Fire Hydrant Experiment 1:02:26 - Idea #17: Budget for Uncertainty 1:04:09 - Idea #18: Ditch the 5-year plan 1:06:52 - Idea #19: Maximize the Serendipity around you 1:08:36 - Idea #20: Look for asymmetric outcomes 1:10:21 - Idea #21: Set up your own game DISCLAIMER Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you!

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Hi, I'm Julio! I share ideas from timeless books to help you become better, richer, and wiser.

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    Julio Froment
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    2025 - 2026
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