Shaan Puri

Shaan's top picks

What Shaan uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.

What Shaan warns against

Things Shaan says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.

All 40 of Shaan's picks

• Instinct Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "Instinct is like the hot startup version of this... I gave her access and I was like, just use this like it's an assistant. It can do anything... tell it to go ask if the state of California owes you any money. And then it comes back two minutes later: 'Yeah, you actually owed $2,000. Would you like me to file the claim?'... It helped my wife plan my daughter's birthday party." +19 others
• Claude Uses it 5 episodes "When I was prepping for this meeting, I put all of our MFM numbers, our competitors, our goals into a Claude prompt, and it gave me a 60-day action plan for growing our channels" +248 others
• Creative gym session Uses and recommends it "Tim Ferriss once said... I basically have like 45 minutes that I'll do a creative gym session... it charges my battery. It has been one of the very few times that I can get in flow." Only Shaan
• Viktor Uses and recommends it "Take the PDF for situational awareness, give it to Victor in your Slack, and say, 'Victor, break this down into the 10 key ideas, predictions and hypotheses that he has, explain it to me.' Victor did a wonderful job — he just chewed up this PDF for me, explained it step by step, and then I asked follow-up questions and it was just great. Victor, by the way, is an AI thing that Sam put me on to that I am now hooked on. I ended up investing in it." +3 others
• Tesla Full Self-Driving Uses and recommends it "Self-driving cars are definitely here. I get in my Tesla every day. I push the button. It drives 95% of all the miles. The only time I take over is basically in parking lots where I want to pick my spot." +6 others
• Whatnot Uses and recommends it "I bought a crab this morning. It was like a fisherman fishing and he's like, 'I got these crabs. You can buy this crab right now.' I bought a crab. He's like, 'Great, it's going to be sent in the mail to you.' There's a crab coming my way now." +7 others
• Influence Uses and recommends it "I am reading Influence again by Robert Cialdini. Reading the best books again at different times in your life, it's a totally different book. Going back and reading great books is like the gift that keeps giving." +5 others
• Shopify Uses and recommends it "I own an e-commerce business and ecom's a pretty brutal industry, like pretty low margin type of business, but I just funneled all the profits into Shopify and the underlying e-commerce stack and I've done great. I made more money there than I did in the actual business itself, but I also wouldn't have understood that ecosystem had I not gone through the pain of being there." +10 others
• The Art of the Deal Uses and recommends it "So I bought I bought the art of the deal. I was like, I'm going to read the art of the deal to try to understand what is the strategy here?" Only Shaan
• The Blue Zones Uses and recommends it "There's a book called The Blue Zones. I read it 10 years ago or something and I was like this is my Bible for like living a long healthy life." Only Shaan
• Suno Uses and recommends it "I'm addicted to the app. I use it all the time. I've probably made 40 or 50 songs. I've burned tens of thousands of credits on this thing." +8 others
• How to Win Friends and Influence People Uses and recommends it "I love that book, Sam... I love that book. I just the reason I like these old books is because some of them the rules have stood the test of time" +5 others
• Misogi Uses it "I had a fitness challenge for the year, fitness misogi, which was to do the Murph... hit this weight goal and I was going to try to dunk." Only Shaan
• Mistborn Uses it "I'm reading the Mistborn series... like the good, like Game of Thrones, Harry Potter type stuff." Only Shaan
• GrokBot Uses it "Grokbot is very much like Slack. You create different bots for different things. So I got a social media bot and I got a health bot... Instinct pretty quickly took over my Grokbot usage. Grokbot feels slow and heavy compared to this." +23 others
• Tesla Model X Uses it "We have the Tesla Model X, which is awesome, but she hates the doors. Everyone can see in our car at school drop off — I open up the kimono every time." +3 others
• The Body Keeps the Score Uses it "I've read The Body Keeps the Score and I intuitively know that trauma is a physical thing." Only Shaan
• Rule of 100 Recommends it "Make a hundred videos and every video pick one thing to do better. The rule of 100 — 100 videos, every time choose one thing to get better. It could be the thumbnail, the hook, the storytelling, the color editing. It doesn't matter what it is. Pick one thing every time. This is the real algorithm that you should follow. Forget the news feed. The algorithm is 100 pieces of content, each time pick one and do it well. If you do that, you will become so good that they can't ignore you." Only Shaan
• Love Every Uses it "There's this company called Love Every — it's like a toy company. They send these books. We bought a book for them on potty training and it totally worked. It totally helped her." Only Shaan
• Investing in your P&L Recommends it "It's a pretty underrated strategy. I call it investing in your P&L because you just go look at the expense items. I own an e-commerce business and ecom's a pretty brutal industry, but I just funneled all the profits into Shopify and the underlying e-commerce stack and I've done great. I made more money there than I did in the actual business itself." Only Shaan
• Other Ship Uses it "I've been using the Other Ship app. I think they're kind of de-prioritizing the app." Only Shaan
• Notion Uses it "I don't need to use Tableau anymore, you know? Like I just make my own dashboards in notion and I created a script to auto update it." +38 others
• The Power of Positive Thinking Uses it "I just got the power of positive thinking. That's another one from the 1930s. I just love these old books" Only Shaan
• Maximum Accountability Exercise Recommends it "You had to write a story of your life where you were wronged... and then rewrite the story, instead of in the victim mindset, with 100% ownership of your part of that whole thing. And he goes, 'It was the most freeing moment of my life.' I think a lot of people would benefit if they just rewrote one story in their life from the point of view of maximum accountability." Only Shaan
• Think on These Things Recommends it "Get off Twitter, social media. Go read a book. A good book I recommend is Think on These Things by Krishnamurti. Good book." Only Shaan
• Project Hail Mary Recommends it "The audiobooks for those things are really good though. Project Hail Mary audiobook was one of the best audiobooks I've ever heard." +2 others
• Dawn Recommends it "You're supposed to basically put it in Dawn soap and then clean it with a toothbrush every week or two... As soon as you do it, your ring looks totally different. It's like, hey, you got a ring upgrade just from a toothbrush and some Dawn soap." +1 other
• anyhum.com Recommends it "By the way, have you seen this site anyhum ever? So check this out... This is like just a put-in-perspective style of website about how lucky we are literally to just have been born where you're born in the year that you're born." Only Shaan
• The Six Thinking Hats Recommends it "There's this great book called Six Thinking Hats. I found this to be a very productive book. The white hat is focus on facts, the yellow hat is be optimistic, the black hat be devil's advocate. When you're having a discussion you're like, okay, if you were an optimist what would you say about this idea — it just creates a significantly better conversation." +1 other
• We Don't Sell Saddles Here Recommends it "You remember that great blog post by the CEO of Slack called 'We Don't Sell Saddles Here'? I think she should read that post. I think every founder should read that post." Only Shaan
• Cloning Strategy Recommends it "MrBeast's cloning strategy: if he hires you in one of the key roles, you just follow him everywhere. Literally shadow him every single place he goes — from morning to night — for 6 months. By the end of 6 months you know exactly how he thinks because you've been with him everywhere. You saw every decision he made. Essentially you're a proxy for him — he can now be in two places at once." Only Shaan
• Single-Tasking Recommends it "Peter Thiel at PayPal had this thing: 'We are going to be a single-tasking company. Everybody has one big problem you're trying to solve at any given time.' And if someone tried to talk to him about anything besides their problem, he would just walk out of the room. The non-verbal communication was pretty clear. Focus is convex — the jump from 80% focused to 90% focused will double your impact." Only Shaan
• Wispr Flow Recommends it "I like WhisperFlow — it has pretty meaningfully changed how I communicate. That's been pretty cool. I think that's been my big standout the last six months." +34 others
• Padel Recommends it "We played padel, which I had never played before. I loved padel. Immediately was like, oh, new life hobby unlocked." Only Shaan
• Ferrero Rocher Recommends it "I love Ferrero Rocher the chocolate. These chocolates are kind of amazing. The packaging is amazing. If you've ever had one of these, you really feel like you're eating something special." Only Shaan
• Ambassadors Clubhouse Recommends it "We had dinner at probably the best Indian restaurant I've ever been to — Ambassadors Clubhouse. You should definitely go. The food is unreal." Only Shaan
• Hampton Recommends it "If you're an interesting business owner and you want to be in a community of other interesting business owners, join Hampton. And maybe you too can be on MFM someday." +1 other
• Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip Recommends it "There's this great book. It's Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip. I read this a few years ago. It's so good. In 1935, two Russians came over and they took a road trip throughout America and they describe what they're seeing. This book is one of my favorites." Only Shaan
• How to Do Great Work Recommends it "Paul Graham wrote this long essay. It's called How to Do Great Work. It takes you like two days to read this goddamn blog post, but it's great and in it he has this one phrase that I remember, which is let enthusiasm be not just the motor, but the rudder of your boat." Only Shaan
• Rework Recommends it "Rework was a fantastic book. Your website right now is basically kind of like Rework. It's just 30 chapters of stuff we believe." Only Shaan
• Uncrustables Warns against "You know who's making a huge comeback is Uncrustables. But yours is like fresh and healthier than Uncrustables. Like if I buy that for my kids, I know I'm making a bad choice." 1 recommend it
• Yelp Warns against "Where do you get food recommendations today? Yelp. Yelp is the default answer. And it's like, dude, Yelp sucks. I've never seen anyone be like, 'God, I love Yelp so much. I trust Yelp so much.'" No one recommends it
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