Shane Parrish
161 statements across 81 episodes · 48 bullish · 28 bearish · 22 people on the record · first statement Jan 28, 2016 by Venkatesh Rao · across every show →
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Jan 28, 2016
Rao: Human decision-making divides into conceptual, ethical, and tribal archetypes
“So those are my three big buckets of types of human decision-making, and you and I think, represent the first kind, which is explored quite a lot in Tempo and your blog. The second is these people who start with good and evil, who I understand A little bit now…”
Mar 30, 2016
Parrish: Require unsolicited long documents to be physically mailed as friction
“So what I've started asking people to do to add friction,
Is, oh, well, why don't you print that and mail it to me?
And if it's worth your time to print and mail it to me, it's something I'll look at.
And if it's not worth your time to print and mail it to me,…”
Mar 30, 2016 neutral
Sep 21, 2017
Grant: Highly creative high schoolers grow up with half a household rule
“If you look at highly creative high schoolers, for example,
On average they had about half a rule in their household, whereas they're sort of, I don't know how that works, but averages are misleading in many ways.
Not just this one.
There you go.
but you know…”
Nov 1, 2017
Parrish: Legally Prohibited From Naming His Former Intelligence Agency Employer
“Oh, I worked in an intelligence agency.
[1892] Susan Cain: Oh, wow.
[1893] Shane Parrish: Yeah.
[1894] SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
[1894] Susan Cain: Do you mean the CIA or a different one?
[1897] Shane Parrish: A three-letter agency that I'm not actually allowed to nam…”
Jan 23, 2018
Mauboussin: In luck-driven domains, evaluation must focus on process over outcomes
“If you are operating in this completely skilled, dominated domain, outcomes are all you really need to know about, right? And so to your point, if you're performing well or performing poorly, that's almost a pure reflection of your skill. And in those domains …”
Feb 21, 2018
Oct 16, 2018
Garvey Berger: Leadership Wisdom Can Be Accelerated Through Deliberate Work
“So it's certainly been my experience that this sort of progression of wisdom over years of experience, wisdom that can be accelerated but that takes some work that doesn't come for free and doesn't come automatically, that it's that sort of Showing up in the w…”
Dec 11, 2018 positive
Oct 1, 2019
Parrish: Pure rationality in every decision is unhealthy
“I think that there's a spectrum between emotional and rational. And at points on that spectrum where we're making a decision or we have a choice, we're faced with a situation in life, we need to know when rational is going to serve us and when it's going to ha…”
Oct 1, 2019 neutral
Dec 24, 2019
Dec 24, 2019 positive
Dec 24, 2019
Parrish: I stopped using my phone around my kids
“That's why I don't use my phone when I'm around my kids anymore. Because I realized at some point, maybe three or four years ago, that, like, I was just trying to, like, sneak in an email here or there, you know, trying to manage things, and then I just realiz…”
Jan 7, 2020 positive
Parrish: Only win-win relationships survive over time in evolutionary biology
“So if you think of four permutations of relationship, there's win-win, win-lose, lose-lose, lose-win, but in, if we map that to biology, only one of those survives across time, right? Which is, the relationship has to be win-win”
May 26, 2020
Productivity matters across an aggregation of days, not on a daily basis
“I'm never worried about productivity on a daily basis. I'm worried about the aggregation of days. Like, any given day, I'm super fortunate. I don't have to be productive, but if I'm not productive for a series of days, that's a much different problem, but it c…”
May 26, 2020 neutral
Parrish started a custom homeschooling program for his kids in February 2020
“At the end of February, sort of, I started a school to plan for this, right? And I call it the kids are in charge. And we hired a teacher and we have like regular programming from 8:30 to sort of one 30 and we used to do coding from one 30 to four 30.”
Jul 21, 2020
Delegating increases a founder's workload before creating long-term operational leverage
“You have to have the longterm perspective. You have to know that's like, all right, this is going to be harder. Yeah, it's going to be harder at first for the long-term gain, right? Like, if you realize that you're at this breaking point, your time is already …”
Jul 21, 2020 negative
Tweaking employee ideas marginally ruins ownership and worsens project outcomes
“So the quality of the idea almost inarguably went up a little bit. How much is, is sort of like irrelevant, but the ability, the desire of the person on the other end to own the idea, to execute it went down. And it always went down by so much that the expecte…”
Jul 21, 2020
Crises expose superficial imitators who lack foundational understanding
“Like if you think maybe Warren Buffett's a good example, right? There's the 2008 housing crisis hits and there's a whole bunch of people who imitate Warren Buffett, right? They talk like him, they go to McDonald's every morning and they eat their egg McMuffin …”
Sep 29, 2020 negative
Parrish: Bureaucratic hiring creates homogeneous teams with shared blind spots
“What happens is like post Snowden you end up hiring, I call it the storm trooper problem, which is like you end up basically hiring the same type of person, right? They're sort of like never had a problem in their life. They get straight A's. They do all the r…”
Sep 29, 2020 positive
Parrish: Intelligence agency awarded Holland tens of millions after vowing not to
“I remember going to a meeting a couple of weeks after he left and they were like, oh, we're not going to buy anything from him. And I was like, we're going to end up giving this guy like fifty million bucks a year. I want to say I was closer to reality than th…”
Nov 24, 2020
Parrish: Superior results require both diverging from competitors and being correct
“If you do the same thing as everybody else, you're going to get the same results as everybody else. So you have to sort of deviate if you want to deviate results, but you need to create an advantageous divergence. You have to not only diverge from what everybo…”
Nov 24, 2020
Feb 2, 2021 positive
Feb 2, 2021 negative
Parrish: Playing the middle in ideation limits outcomes to incremental success
“If you're stuck in that middle area, even if you're successful, you're only going to be incrementally successful. And if you're a failure, you're not going to be too far from success. So you're sort of like keeping yourself in this boundary where you can alway…”
Feb 2, 2021 positive
Feb 16, 2021 positive
Eyal: Rating Disagreements 1 to 10 Cuts Through Emotional Arguing
“And this system of scoring how important something is comes in handy because when we have a disagreement small or large, it can be like, Hey, which place do you want to go for lunch? Or you know, how, how strongly do you think that our daughter should be homes…”
Feb 23, 2021 positive
Seth Godin: Deciding once creates an enduring creative practice
“If you have a practice, You get through them. You get through them because you already decided there was going to be a blog post tomorrow, and you already decided that the podcast comes out on a regular basis, and you already decided whatever it is. Make the d…”
Mar 9, 2021
Parrish: Ask domain experts how they think, not what to do
“Reflection is the work of learning. I honestly, I think of it as that. And if you think of it as that, it changes the questions you ask other people too, because it now you're not asking other people what to do. You're asking them to basically open their mind …”
May 18, 2021
Greenblatt: Skip unpredictable businesses with fierce competition and fast tech change
“What do you do with a business where the competition's really fierce, technology's always changing, you know, you're always coming up with new products, you know, how do you predict what, you know, when you figure out a value of a business, you're trying to fi…”
Jun 1, 2021
Knowledge workers resist changing minds because identity is tied to judgment
“It's hard in a knowledge environment, though, right? Because You have so much of your worth. You want to contribute to something. I think there's a biological need to contribute to something larger than us. And if your identity, you're not mechanically making …”
Nov 2, 2021
Parrish: Walking the full route beats taking shortcuts to maintain discipline
“It's much better for me if I'm going to give up to actually walk the full 10 than it would be to take the shortcut. Because I took the shortcut once and I've only done this once ever, but it took me three months. Cause every time I passed it on the way back, i…”
Dec 14, 2021 positive
Parrish: Culture and religion exist to channel innate hierarchical instincts
“At some level, like in biology, we're wired with a hierarchical instinct, right? We see it in animals, we see it in tribes, we see it in how we organize organizations, and then how we curb or direct that instinct becomes sort of like culture or philosophy or r…”
Dec 21, 2021
Chris Bosh: There is no meaningful difference between losing and being beaten
“It's a win column and a loss column. At the end of every game, you either win or you lose. You can take whatever you want to, whatever lessons you want to afterwards. But let's not, let's keep it, let's keep apples to apples, oranges to oranges. Loss and wins.”
Feb 8, 2022
Parrish: The need to be right blinds knowledge workers to new data
“And then when you need to be right, you spend all of your time and effort, not only, you know, probably unconsciously undermining other people but trying to prove that you're right to other people and you're closed to new data. You're closed to different persp…”
Apr 19, 2022
Parrish: Sticking With a Problem Longer Provides a Unique Cognitive Advantage
“Your first thoughts are rarely your best thoughts. And so the ability to stick with a problem for longer than other people, which in this case might be, you know, four seconds or four minutes offers a unique advantage and perspective, right?”
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022 negative
Parrish: Annual bonuses are largely ineffective and distort employee effort timing
“I think this is one of the reasons bonuses are largely ineffective either. They're, Not material for the vast majority of people, and they happen once a year, and so you tend to get feedback once a year, and you know, in those three months before you get your …”
May 17, 2022
Jun 28, 2022
Parrish: Career advice is most useful from recent next-level practitioners
“The odds of those things being relevant and useful Are a lot less. So you want to find somebody who's done the same thing that you're doing and just did it. So next level success, somebody who just did your job, got promoted out of it.”
Jul 12, 2022 positive
Parrish: The 24-hour rule limits celebration or mourning to one single day
“I have an idea that, you know, I've written about recently called the 24 hour rule, which is no matter what happens in your day, you get that day to celebrate or cry or the next day you have a new page and it's a blank page. And you have to move on. You can't …”
Aug 9, 2022 negative
Sep 6, 2022 positive
Parrish: We learn through reflection on experience, not from experience itself
“My belief on this is that we don't learn from experience. We learn through reflection. So we have an experience, we reflect on that experience, and from that reflection, we draw abstractions or relationships, and those abstractions and relationships become An …”
Sep 6, 2022 negative
Oct 4, 2022 negative
Parrish: Education innovation suffers from small upside and exponential downside risk
“Where we do like we accept failure in science, but we won't accept failure when it comes to an education system. So any, anybody who comes in and tries something else, they have this really weird equation, right? Where you have a very linear, small upside and …”
Oct 18, 2022 negative
Parrish: Giving Kids Pandemic Free Passes Damaged Their Resilience
“Here's one aspect where I think we've done a major disservice to kids is we've told them, we've trained them that they don't have to do things that don't feel like doing during a pandemic. You don't have to do your homework if you didn't feel like doing it. Te…”
Oct 18, 2022
Oct 18, 2022
Oct 18, 2022 positive
Oct 18, 2022 negative
Oct 18, 2022 neutral
Pasricha: Living humans represent a 1-in-15 fraction of all who ever lived
“There are a hundred and fifteen billion people, Shane, who have ever lived in the world. If you're watching or listening to this right now, you're one of the eight billion people who are alive today, which means by de facto, a hundred and seven billion of the …”
Oct 18, 2022 positive
Jan 10, 2023 positive
Parrish schedules three-hour podcast interviews to eliminate time pressure
“One of the reasons that we book three hours is because then there's no time pressure. There's no, you're not thinking about, oh, I only have an hour. I got to fit all this in. And so it's just, I am here in this moment for this length of time. And it all, it n…”
Jan 24, 2023 negative
Jan 24, 2023 negative
Jan 24, 2023 negative
Feb 7, 2023 negative
Parrish: My intelligence agency became the poster child for bureaucracy over 15 years
“I worked for a three letter agency. Started pre nine, 11. And by the time I left, you know, circa 20 16 ish we became. Like the poster child for bureaucracy. And that all happened over these sort of like 1415 years that I was there, and so it went from high pa…”
Feb 7, 2023
Feb 7, 2023
Parrish: Bureaucratic procedures destroy judgment by absolving employees of accountability
“Procedures eventually circumvent judgment. And so what happens is if you follow the procedure, you never get in trouble. Even if what you're doing is absolutely the wrong outcome, and you should know it's going to lead to the wrong outcome, you can just throw …”
Mar 7, 2023
Parrish: Handling micro-moments impacts relationship success more than spouse selection
“These micro moments have more of an impact on your life than that in a lot of ways. Because, you know, if I might pick the right spouse, but if I don't turn these ordinary moments into extraordinary outcomes, It doesn't matter. Like that whole choice is like a…”
Mar 7, 2023 negative
Parrish: Leaders who break agreements miss out on 10x performance
“You don't feel like you can be all in with somebody who's violating or not maintaining their agreements with you, who's not showing you respect by keeping their time. So how can I go all in for this person? I'm not going to go all in for them. I'm going to wor…”
Mar 7, 2023
Dethmer: Individuals are the sole cause of their own emotional experience
“You are not the cause of my experience. You're not. However much we ever relate in life, you are not the cause of my experience. I would say it this way. I actually won't grant you that power. I am the cause of my experience. You act, and in this case, technol…”
Apr 18, 2023 negative
May 16, 2023 neutral
Parrish: Independent thinking rises in value as AI commoditizes standard thought
“And that's going to become more valuable because AI, at least at first, is going to give away standard thinking for free. So it'll raise the bar for some people, but it'll be so conventional for independent and original thinkers.”
May 16, 2023 positive
Shane Parrish: Relationship Value Compounds Late and Requires Long-Term Continuity
“Anything that you do that negates being in a long-term relationship takes you off compounding to begin with. So if you think long-term and you know from compounding that all the advantages come at the end, not at the beginning, they're very slow to accrue, but…”
Jun 13, 2023
Parrish: Top decision-makers operate from foundational strength to compound advantages
“The best decision makers in the world almost always operate from a position of strength. And that sort of strikes me because when you operate from a solid position or foundation, Nearly every move you make is good. It's all accumulative. Whereas when you opera…”
Jun 27, 2023
Gurner: Unchallenged 'imaginary rules' and peer echo chambers artificially limit personal ambition
“Unless you find ways to expand beyond yourself, these imaginary rules that you carry around often keep you very small, because you will limit what you feel you can do. You will limit how much you feel you can earn. You will limit what you feel you're capable o…”
Aug 22, 2023 negative
Shane Parrish: Multiple U.S. billionaires cannot navigate to their children's schools
“There's more than a couple of billionaires that I'm sure we both know in the United States that couldn't drive their kids to school if they had to, because they don't know where their kids go to school. They don't know how to get there from their house.”
Aug 22, 2023 negative
Shane Parrish: COVID lockdowns isolated communities and increased widespread societal selfishness
“I think one of the interesting things that COVID did is it disconnected us from our community en masse.
It locked us in our house delivery services.
We don't have to interact with people.
We're not forced to see people who are more or less successful than we a…”
Aug 22, 2023 neutral
Shane Parrish: Forcing middle-class constraints on wealthy children causes severe domestic resentment
“So if you're living in a mansion, and you get picked up in a chauffeur, and you tell your fifteen-year-old to go get a job at McDonald's, it's gonna cause resentment. So you have to live whatever lifestyle you want them to grow up in. So if you want your kids …”
Oct 17, 2023 neutral
Parrish framed a critical NYT comment to motivate himself to work harder
“There was this time, a comment on the New York Times profile that they wrote on me And it literally, you know, I framed it, and I put it in the office, and it was like this guy's enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. And it drove me to be better and to work harder …”
Oct 31, 2023
Nov 28, 2023 neutral
Transactional behavior destroys the exponential returns of long-term compounding
“And the interesting thing about long-term too, is like, it allows for compounding and what we know about compounding is like all the gains come at the end, not at the beginning. Right? So if you take yourself off that path through a loss of trust or, you know,…”
Nov 28, 2023
Identity attachment increases with age, amplifying fear and suppressing risk-taking
“The fear of looking like an idiot keeps us from doing things that we know are probably going to lead to growth or success or not to use the word success, but performance. You know, they're going to make us better, and we don't want to do them because we fear l…”
Nov 28, 2023
Nov 28, 2023 positive
Formulating distinct missions for specific life roles beats having one overarching mission
“And that goes to the power of isolating our identity. If I say like, Hey, what's your, what Todd, what's your mission as a coach? Todd, what's your mission as a CEO? What's your mission? And then at the end, when I maybe write out these eight different mission…”
Nov 28, 2023
Environment influences success far more than internal self-improvement efforts
“The under appreciation of environment and how that plays way more on your success than you, because we come in, right? Like Shane, you read amazing ideas and amazing books and we index a lot to making myself better. And it's, so it's a me thing. As opposed to …”
Nov 28, 2023
Dec 26, 2023 negative
Parrish: Rigid procedures circumvent human judgment and absolve accountability
“One thing I noticed is that procedures eventually circumvent judgment. And so what happens is if you follow the procedure, you never get in trouble. Even if what you're doing is absolutely the wrong outcome, and you should know it's going to lead to the wrong …”
Jan 23, 2024
Parrish Admits to Regularly Violating Canadian COVID Lockdown Bubble Restrictions
“From somebody who, me, violated the law on a regular basis during this in Canada, because I had a bubble of people that was more than two households, and, you know, we had a teacher involved, and we had all these other things involved, and you know, I had neig…”
Jan 23, 2024 neutral
Feb 20, 2024 positive
Parrish: Daily exercise rules eliminate decision fatigue and internal negotiation
“I'm going to work out every day and the duration or scope can change, but I'm going to exercise every day. And the conversation went from, should I work out today? Which in my head is like, oh, I have a really busy day. I didn't sleep well. I'm not going to wo…”
Feb 20, 2024 positive
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Mar 5, 2024 negative
Charlie Munger warned that forcing children to live below parents causes resentment
“It was Charlie who told me, and I had never thought of it this way, he said, you get into a lot of trouble when you want your kids to live a different lifestyle than you're living. When you're getting a chauffeur to drive you to work, and you're telling your 1…”
Apr 16, 2024 positive
Apr 30, 2024 positive
Loehr: Storytelling Reaches Children Far Better Than Direct Preaching
“What kids don't want to be Is preached to. They don't want to be preached to. The great wisdom seekers in, in our history, when they were trying to, let's say in the American Indian tradition, they would tell stories. They tell stories that actually don't brin…”
Aug 6, 2024
Parrish: Trying to fix exceptional people's weaknesses caps their ultimate impact
“And my hypothesis is that people at the tail end of the curve Have incredible strengths and incredible weaknesses. And by trying to address those weaknesses, whether it's school, society, nudging people, we actually limit, we put a ceiling on the strengths tha…”
Oct 1, 2024
Bragg: Family investment portfolio exceeds three billion dollars
“I read where so-and-so's running two billion dollars and three billion, and we're doing more than that, and so we've got a big portfolio that's done very well for us, so we try to streamline it and keep it simple and let the operators run the business, and the…”
Oct 15, 2024
Parrish: Life balance is a mosaic where core priorities never hit zero
“I always think of this as like a mosaic. So you have a border and you have different size pieces. And some of those pieces are family, some are work, some are maybe your hobbies. Health is definitely one of the big pieces there and they shrink and they sort of…”
Oct 29, 2024 bearish
Mackey: Clear grocery health ratings will drive away shoppers or get diluted
“What they would do is they'd dumb it down so that a lot of stuff that you think is red now would all of a sudden be green. And the, It's like, because most of the food that we're selling in supermarkets is not good for people. And if you start telling the trut…”
Nov 12, 2024
Parrish: Perspective comes from past masters; skills require modern practitioners
“If you want perspective, you want to go to somebody who's at the end of the maze, who, who's done it before. And it's almost regardless of when they did it could be, you know, six months before, and it could be. 2030 years before, but they're going to give you…”
Nov 26, 2024 neutral
Nov 26, 2024 positive
Dec 10, 2024 neutral
Dec 10, 2024 neutral
Shane Parrish Netted Just Fifty Cents Profit Per Self-Published Hardcover
“Like, people don't understand the economics of self-publishing from a hardcover perspective. Sort of like audio and Kindle are great because the margins are good, but from a hardcover perspective, we were paying eight dollars U.S., seven dollars U.S., Approxim…”
Feb 11, 2025 positive
Mar 4, 2025 positive
Wolfe: In-Person Human Interactions Will Become Increasingly Scarce and Valuable
“Your reactions right now, I might say something, and you might say, ah, and maybe you actually thought it was profound, or maybe you're like, ah, this is not interesting at all, but there's something authentic, right, about this, and we are reading each other,…”
Mar 11, 2025 positive
Estée Lauder stayed a week training staff for new counter launches
“When opening a new counter, she didn't just show up for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. She stayed for the entire week. She selected and trained her sales staff. She went to every department in the store, and she gave samples to all the women working in the other d…”
Mar 25, 2025 positive
Charlie Munger attributed Berkshire's success to rarely being forced into bad decisions
“At dinner one night, I was talking with Charlie Munger, and I asked him for the unconventional sort of things that people don't appreciate as much about Berkshire Hathaway's success as he might think that they should. And one of the things that he mentioned to…”
May 6, 2025 neutral
May 6, 2025 positive
May 20, 2025 positive
May 20, 2025
Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025 neutral
Jun 3, 2025
Parrish: Good positioning outperforms raw intellect and eliminates forced decisions
“Good positioning eliminates forced decisions. You don't need to be smarter than others to outperform them if you're better positioned. Anyone looks like a genius when they're in a good position, and even the smartest person looks like an idiot when they're in …”
Jun 3, 2025
Parrish: Maintaining a surplus margin of safety lets you control circumstances
“The key lesson here is that if you are well positioned, be it with a surplus or margin of safety or whatever you want to call it, you control your own circumstances, and when you don't have that, you are controlled by them.”
Jun 17, 2025 positive
Jun 17, 2025 positive
Jun 17, 2025 negative
Jun 17, 2025 positive
To get noticed, deliver direct solutions instead of explaining how
“Most people prepare for interviews by thinking about answers. Outliers show up with solutions. It's the same with cold emails today. Don't tell someone how you would solve their problems. If you want to get noticed, just solve their problem.”
Jun 17, 2025 positive
Jun 17, 2025 positive
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Jun 17, 2025 positive
Jun 17, 2025 positive
Jun 17, 2025 neutral
Jun 17, 2025 positive
Jun 17, 2025
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Jun 17, 2025 positive
Jul 1, 2025 positive
Conglomerates create growth flywheels via earnings-multiple arbitrage
“If your stock traded at a higher multiple than your target, you could buy their earnings and instantly improve your own. Do this repeatedly, and you could create growth impossible through operations alone. Growth was rewarded with a higher share multiple, crea…”
Jul 8, 2025 negative
Munger: Imposing artificial hardship on affluent kids only breeds resentment
“One of the only pieces of advice Charlie Munger gave me about parenting over dinner once was the parents that try to artificially impose a different lifestyle on their kids than they are living. And he gave an extreme example of a guy getting, like, chauffeure…”
Jul 15, 2025 positive
Les Schwab grew first-year tire shop revenue to five times previous owner
“That first month, Les did 2800 dollars in sales, about what the previous owner had done. But by June, something had shifted. Sales hit 10,000 dollars a month. By year's end, he'd done a 150,000 in revenue. Five times what the previous owner managed.”
Aug 12, 2025
Win-win relationships are necessary to survive long enough for compounding advantages
“The only sustainable relationship is win-win. Think about compounding. What we know about compounding is that all the advantages from compounding go to the end. They come at the end. And the only way to get to the end, the only way to extend your timeline and …”
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Parrish: Acquirers should overpay for scarce assets to signal future sellers
“Every acquisition is really two acquisitions. It's the company you're buying today and the companies that might sell tomorrow. When opportunities are scarce, pay what it takes to get the asset you want. The people who nickel and dime their way out a great deal…”
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Sep 16, 2025 positive
Engineering trust requires repeated exposure and establishing a shared baseline of values
“One is repeated exposure. So in order to trust somebody, first you have to have a sense of who they are. Like you won't, you wouldn't trust a stranger. You wouldn't trust a mystery man. So one is you have to know who are they? They have to show up enough for y…”
Sep 16, 2025
The hook matters more than narrative construction or distribution medium
“I would say in order of how much it matters, it's the hook. How you tell your story, and then where you tell it. Most people get this reversed, where they spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about where can I go talk?”
Oct 7, 2025 negative
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025
Take Full Asking Price Immediately, but Sleep on Discounted Offers
“Before making a deal, if anyone is fool enough to offer you the full amount, take it. If you're offered less, tell them and you'll give them an answer in the morning. Think the matter over carefully in the evening. If you decide that it will be to your advanta…”
Oct 28, 2025
Parrish: Refuses outside investors to maintain total capital allocation freedom
“I don't have a fund. I don't have outside investors. Why? Cause I don't like that structure. I don't want to answer to other people. I don't want to. And if I want to save up money for three years and do nothing, then I can do that. And if I want to chuck 80% …”
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025
Parrish: Providing even meaningless reasons significantly increases human compliance
“Reason respecting tendency is so strong that even meaningless or incoherent reasons will also increase compliance. Psychology experiments demonstrated this. People successfully jumped to the head of lines at copying machines Simply by explaining, I have to mak…”
Nov 18, 2025
Parrish: Co-Pilots in Simulations Fail to Override Fatal Captain Errors
“Co-pilots get simulator training specifically teaching them to ignore foolish orders from boss pilots. From the captain. But even after this training, co-pilots in simulators will still allow the plane to crash because of some obvious error created by the chie…”
Nov 18, 2025 negative
Parrish: Cults, sales, and politics manipulate using multiple simultaneous biases
“When you see extreme outcomes, Berkshire Hathaway's success or New Coke disasters, cult conversions, corporate catastrophes, ask what combination of tendencies created this? Be alert when multiple tendencies are being used to manipulate you. Cults have figured…”
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025 positive
Parrish: Delaying Intuition Across Separate Dimensions Produces Better Decisions
“When I talked to Daniel Kahneman about this, he said, you delay intuition by focusing on the separate problems. Take the separate dimensions and really think about each dimension separately and independently. Don't allow people to give the final judgment. Say,…”
Nov 18, 2025 positive
Parrish: Compounding psychological tendencies drive major corporate and historical outcomes
“In real life, Psychological tendencies rarely operate alone. They consistently combine and reinforce one another, creating effects larger and more unpredictable than the sum of the parts. That's what changes history. That's what builds and destroys companies.”
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025 negative
Parrish: Authority Misinfluence Protects Incompetent CEOs from Removal
“Munger's observation is that undue respect for authority is so strong that terrible CEOs remain in control of important institutions long after it's obvious they should be removed. Authority misinfluence tendency protects them.”
Nov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025 negative
Nov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025 neutral
Murphy: People neglect mental training because internal growth lacks visible results
“Well, we're led around by our eyes. We live this transactional life, this third world results in circumstances. So if I put in this effort, I can see what happens. But if I gain wisdom, I can't see that with my eyes very easy. If I'm gain, become a more loving…”
Nov 25, 2025 neutral
Parrish: Wealthy people shrink their social circles as requests breed distrust
“Knowing a lot of incredibly wealthy people. One thing that I noticed that's really interesting is their social circles get smaller and smaller and smaller. And I think in part, like people start asking you for things and then you create this sort of like seed …”
Nov 25, 2025 negative
Dec 23, 2025 bullish
Parrish: AI-native graduates can outproduce professionals with 20 years of experience
“There's this weird path where students are coming out and they're more powerful and capable than ever because they use AI by default. And so they can get more output Than somebody who's maybe been in their career, 1520 years.”
Jan 1, 2026
Parrish: News Outlets Will Personalize Article Text to Readers' Preferences
“So increasingly, I mean, we're moving to a world. I don't think people quite realize that yet where you and I open the same article in the wall street journal or New York times, it's going to be two different versions of that article that's based on our browsi…”
Jan 13, 2026
Parrish: Business failure almost always stems from breaking win-win counterparty relationships
“When I look back at some of the outliers episodes we've covered over the past year, I see repeatedly that the businesses they built almost uniformly had win-win relationships with all of these counterparties. And when they misstepped their businesses stumbled,…”
Jan 13, 2026
Jan 20, 2026
Parrish: Chess Grandmasters Play Their Initial Intuitive Move 99.9% of the Time
“The grandmasters have an instinctual move in their head. And 99.9% of the time that's the move they make. And then why do they take all this time before they make a turn? Well, because they're checking, they're verifying that their instinct is correct.”
Jan 20, 2026 neutral
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Munger: Parents Cannot Raise Kids With Middle-Class Values While Living Lavishly
“He said you basically have to live the life that you want your kids to live, and so if you want your kids to grow up with a middle-class life, you can't live in a mansion and then force a middle-class life on them. You can't be chauffeured to work while you're…”