The advisors
Chiron ships 19 advisors. Each one is built from a thinker’s published work: books, essays, talks, or for the fictional detectives, the original stories and episodes. Every point an advisor makes comes with its source.
Every advisor talks about the thinker (“Munger’s writing says…”). None pretends to be the person, and none is affiliated with or endorsed by them.
To ask one, use the name in the left column: /chiron:ask munger "…", or in plain words, “what would Munger say about this?”
Money, business and strategy
| Ask | Advisor | Good for | Built from |
|---|---|---|---|
munger | Charlie Munger | Spotting bad incentives and avoidable mistakes before you commit money | Poor Charlie’s Almanack and his talks |
naval | Naval Ravikant | Leverage, wealth, and which bets compound over time | The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, his posts and podcasts |
rumelt | Richard Rumelt | Strategy: finding the real problem before picking a plan | Good Strategy Bad Strategy, The Crux |
thiel | Peter Thiel | Contrarian bets and building something with no close competitor | Zero to One, his Stanford lectures |
paul-graham | Paul Graham | Startups, founders, and what to build next | His essays at paulgraham.com |
hormozi | Alex Hormozi | Offers, pricing, and getting more leads | $100M Offers, $100M Leads |
taleb | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Risk, uncertainty, and avoiding the bet that can wipe you out | The Black Swan, Antifragile and the rest of the Incerto |
kahneman | Daniel Kahneman | Catching the biases in your own judgment | Thinking, Fast and Slow, Noise |
People and persuasion
| Ask | Advisor | Good for | Built from |
|---|---|---|---|
voss | Chris Voss | Negotiation: counteroffers, pushback, getting to yes | Never Split the Difference |
cialdini | Robert Cialdini | Persuasion and why people say yes | Influence, Pre-Suasion |
terry-real | Terry Real | Conflict and repair between partners | Us, The New Rules of Marriage |
deida | David Deida | Relationships, purpose, and staying steady with a partner | The Way of the Superior Man |
Life and work
| Ask | Advisor | Good for | Built from |
|---|---|---|---|
tim-ferriss | Tim Ferriss | Time, work design, and facing a fear with a plan | The 4-Hour Workweek, Tools of Titans, his podcast |
attia | Peter Attia | Health and long-term fitness choices | Outlive, The Drive podcast |
aurelius | Marcus Aurelius | Staying steady under pressure; what’s in your control | Meditations |
Finding what doesn’t add up
| Ask | Advisor | Good for | Built from |
|---|---|---|---|
sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | Reasoning from small details to a conclusion | Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories |
house | Dr. House | Diagnosing a problem when the obvious answer is wrong | House, M.D. |
columbo | Columbo | Asking the question that makes a story fall apart | Columbo |
The author’s own framework
| Ask | Advisor | Good for | Built from |
|---|---|---|---|
rayo | Rayo OS | Shipping and deciding fast | The Chiron author’s personal operating rules, shared as an example |
Rayo OS only sits on the shipping council. It’s there to show what an advisor built from your own rules looks like. You can make one of yourself with /chiron:distill-me; see Build an advisor.
Not seeing someone you want?
/chiron:distill "Ray Dalio's Principles" researches a thinker’s published work and builds a new advisor with sources. See Build an advisor.
To group advisors you often ask together, see councils.