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Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth) - Wait But Why
We all care way too much what other people think of us. Here's why.
🏯 What you need to know about Moats
Moats are essential for quality investors. In this article we'll teach you everything you should know about sustainable competitive advantages.
The Imperfectionist: How to forget what you read
First, a quick reminder about Designing Your System for Creativity, a live online event in two two-hour sessions that I'll be offering over one weekend in March. We'll exp...
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.”
The Science Behind Viral Thread Hooks | The 1% Newsletter
The 5 Keys To Viral Thread Hooks, 3C Framework and Profile Audit
How to Write a Twitter Thread: The Complete Guide
A 5-step guide to unlocking Twitter virality.
Dr. Roddick on Note-Taking and Obsidian
Dr. Roddick on Note-Taking and Obsidian Dr. Andy Roddick, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University Table of Contents Introduction From Anthropology 3FF3 Introductory Notes Smart Notes & the Zettelkasten On the value of "smart notes" On Reading Critically On Kinds of notes Title of your N...
How to grow your newsletter audience
A guide to promoting your Substack, from the former head of comms for Substack
Hedge Fund Investing is Hard & Michael Platt's Obsession with Risk
"I don’t have any tolerance for trading losses. I hate losing money more than anything. Losing money is what kills you. Not the actual loss. The fact that it messes up your psychology." Michael Platt
On Email and Horses - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
Earlier this week, the New York Times Magazine published a conversation between me and the journalist David Marchese. We touched on a lot of the ideas about digital technology and the workplace that I elaborate in my 2021 book, A World Without Email. At one point during the interview, however, I came up with a
Carl Jung on the Second Half of Life.
C.G. Jung Speaking : Interviews and Encounters Question 3. In what respect, if any, does the treatment of neurosis in the second half of life—that means after thirty—differ from that in the …
Four Thousand Weeks
A tribute to the book by Oliver Burkeman, an exploration of time management in the face of human finitude, and addressing the anxiety of “getting everything done.”
The Imperfectionist: Don't invite your thoughts to tea
Don't invite your thoughts to tea In the return of an occasional series, here are four ideas I've recently found useful/enlightening, and which I didn't want to ignore jus...
The brilliance of Henry Singleton: The CEO you never heard of
The importance of capital allocation As a corporate lawyer, I have been extremely fortunate to meet and to get to know some exceptionally gifted CEOs. Many of these individuals have performed admirably in their respective fields, demonstrating the types of qualities you would generally expect of exe
🥇10 Lessons from 20 years of quality investing
Only a few companies are able to consistently compound shareholder wealth at superior rates of return over a very long period of time. Here are 10 lessons from 20 years of quality investing.
Differentiation
Or, why you should be a mutant
r/AskReddit - Comment by u/rhoner on ”Have you ever picked up a hitch-hiker? ”
2,436 votes and 2,894 comments so far on Reddit
SIX at 6: Conceptual Ancestors, Seinfeld’s Shrine, A Thousand Faces, The Air Sole, A Wonderful Technique, and Combining Your Influences - Billy Oppenheimer
The Conceptual Ancestor of The Great White Magicians In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, there is a character named Prospero. And in a parenthetical reference in The Creative Brain, Dr. Nancy Andreasen mentions, “Prospero [is] a great ‘white magician’ who is the conceptual ancestor of more modern wizards such as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and
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The Three Sides of Risk
I grew up ski racing in Lake Tahoe.
Ghost grid
A ghost grid is a guide for organising thoughts, information and sketches, that doesn't compete with content. Content itself can also be the ghost grid to highlight changes and help draw comparisons — as when you might sketch options for extending a house or designing a garden. A grid is useful for structure and creation but needs to fade back from content or disappear when no longer needed. Like freeing data from its data prison, a ghost grid emphasises content and information without non-data-ink taking attention. I learned the term ghost grid from Edward Tufte's Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth. I rarely buy other notebooks for work than a dot grid, preferably in a funky colour. Some of my favourites: Leuchtterm dot grid hardcover, Moleskine dot grid softcover, Moo soft cover dotted journals
The platform and the curator
Who has their hand on the dial? Talk with someone who works at Apple, Amazon, Google, Linkedin, Facebook, etc, and they’ll be happy to give you tips on how to work the platform to your advant…
see people as trees via Ram Dass
The Scandal of Financial Nihilism
The Wheels Keep on Turning—and the anti-mimetic breaks are breaking.
💰 How to outperform the market by François Rochon
François Rochon is one of the best quality investors in the world. Over the last 30 years, he returned more than 6.000% to shareholders (15.7% per year). You can find everything you need to know about Rochon in this article.
Ebombs Away
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Cliff Asness
Markets, Management and Momentum
A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan
He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh?
Buffett Profile from 1979: "The investor's investor"
"I cannot promise results, but I do promise this: a. Our investments will be chosen on the basis of value, not popularity. b. We will attempt to reduce permanent capital loss to a minimum."