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From Technical Expert to Commercial Thinker

Connect your technical expertise to customer economics, business priorities and better decisions. Seven lessons, about 90 minutes of audio.

Path · Difficulty 2   /   7 lessons · Available in the app

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Follow your next question.

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15 available now · 16 coming soon.

Sprint · Difficulty 2

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Ask Better Questions

Learn to follow the answers that matter, understand consequences and leave a customer conversation with a clearer picture of the decision.

2 lessons · Available in the app

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Sprint · Difficulty 2

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Negotiate Without Giving Away Margin

Prepare your alternatives and limits, trade across issues and recognise when no deal is better than a bad one.

3 lessons · Available in the app

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Philosophy

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Stoicism: Foundations

Seven days with the core practices of the Stoics.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Communication · Curated path

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Introduction to Boundaries

Learn to understand a request, set its scope, respond clearly and revisit an earlier agreement.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Communication

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Introduction to Communication

Seven days on the small moves that decide whether your difficult conversations go well or go badly, for the adult who has never been taught them.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Finance

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Introduction to Financial Independence

Understand what your life costs, how saving changes your options, and how to plan beyond the next payslip.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Habits

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Introduction to Habits

Seven days on how habits actually form, and the small moves that make a new one stick where willpower has not.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Psychology

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Staying Steady Under Pressure

Seven lessons on noticing a reaction, considering what it means and choosing a workable response.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Focus

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Deciding What Gets Your Attention

Seven lessons on choosing tools, understanding the pressures around attention and making room for what matters.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Creative

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Three Ways Through a Creative Block

Seven days with three writers who each spent a career on the same problem — the work you mean to start, and don't — and arrived at three answers that don't fit together.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Relationships

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Attachment, Conflict and Connection

Seven lessons on attachment, recurring disagreements, repair and desire, with room for individual circumstances.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Negotiation

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Introduction to Sales

Seven days on what sales actually is, for someone who has never sold anything and isn't sure they want to.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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Negotiation

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The Three Schools of Negotiation

Seven lessons comparing listening, interests and perception in everyday negotiation.

7 lessons · Available in the app

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History

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Introduction to Historical Thinking

Three deeper sessions on what history is actually for — how it steadies judgment, how historians actually think, and how to read your own life the way a historian reads the past.

3 lessons · Available in the app

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Philosophy

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Introduction to Philosophy

Three deeper sessions on what philosophy is actually for — and the two moves anyone can use, regardless of whether they ever read a philosophy book again.

3 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Philosophy

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Stoicism and the Tao

Seven days with a Roman emperor, a Chinese sage who may never have existed, and a fighter who inherited both — on staying steady when the ground will not hold still.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Philosophy

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Practical Wisdom

Seven days with three modern writers who give three different answers to one question — what a person should actually be working on, given that the future will not hold still.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Philosophy

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A Slave, an Emperor, and a Courtier

Three ancient lives with almost nothing in common, put in one room — and ten lessons on why anyone believes a text at all.

10 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Finance

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Money Is Mostly Behavior

Seven days with three writers who agree that wealth is built less by what you know about money and more by how you behave with it.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Finance

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The Index Fund Argument

Seven days on the case for owning the whole market instead of picking pieces of it — the evidence behind it, the objections to it, and which half of the argument is still being fought over.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Habits

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The Will to Persist

Twenty-one short lessons on what actually makes people keep going — and on the two famous answers that got smaller the moment anyone tested them properly.

21 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Psychology

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Introduction to Psychology

Seven days on the small set of moves that make ordinary emotional life easier, for the adult who was never taught how their inner life works.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Psychology

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Meaning Under Pressure

Seven days with three writers who went looking for what suffering is for — and an honest account of how much of what they found actually holds up.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Psychology

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How Your Mind Actually Works

Ten days on what is actually known about human judgment, which of the famous findings survived being checked, and how to tell the two apart yourself.

10 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Psychology

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The Body and the Mind

Seven days on what the body actually contributes to psychological life — and on three of the most-read writers in the field, who disagree about where the leverage sits.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Focus

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Introduction to Focus

Seven days on how attention actually works, why yours keeps shattering, and the small set of moves that get it back — for the person who was never taught.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Creative

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Introduction to Creativity

Seven days, seven small things made — for the person who stopped calling themselves creative somewhere around age twelve.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Relationships

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Introduction to Relationships

Seven days on how close relationships actually work — and the small, learnable moves that keep them alive — for the person who was never taught.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Relationships

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Self-Respect and the Evidence

Seven days on the advice industry's central claim — that romantic success is downstream of self-respect — and what the research actually says about which way that arrow runs.

7 lessons · Catalogue preview

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Science

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Introduction to Scientific Thinking

Three deeper sessions on what science actually is — a way of thinking, not a pile of facts — and the toolkit anyone can carry into an ordinary day.

3 lessons · Catalogue preview

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