Vitaliy Katsenelson

Lessons for My Kids – Conversations with Vitaliy – Ep 16

What lessons do you want to leave behind for your kids? 📩 Sign up for my free weekly email newsletter  🎙 Check out my weekly podcast, The Intellectual Investor. 📚 GET MY BOOKS Soul in the Game -   The Little Book of Sideways...

Don’t Let History Repeat Itself – Ep 208

I know young adults who have gone to Israel to fight to protect it from evil. I have friends who have put their lives on hold and gone to Israel to volunteer to help that country in any way they can. My pen is my gift. This is how I can make a...

Israel is Not Hamas’ Final Solution – Ep 207

I usually look forward to waking up every morning. My family is still asleep. I make a cup of coffee, put on my headphones, and write. But I wasn't looking forward to mornings over the last week while I was working on this and tomorrow’s essays. It...

How To Teach Your Kids To Read – Conversations with Vitaliy – Ep 15

Without a doubt, this is one of the most difficult things to do in a world dominated by technology. I hope my advice helps in some way.  📩 Sign up for my free weekly email newsletter 🎙 Check out my weekly podcast, The Intellectual...

Stoic Tools to Become a Great Investor

Stoic Tools to Become a Great Investor

Stoicism changed my life. In this video, I break down the stoic tools that profoundly impacted me, not just as a person but as an investor.

Why You Should Walk Everyday – Conversations with Vitaliy – Ep 14

In this short video, I explain how walking can change your life. 📩 Sign up for my free weekly email newsletter 🎙 Check out my weekly podcast, The Intellectual Investor. 📚 GET MY BOOKS Soul in the Game -   The Little Book of Sideways...

My thoughts on AI

My thoughts on AI

Innovation disrupts, but it also creates new jobs and improves the standard of living of society. AI will displace many jobs, but it will also empower people with new productivity tools.

How To Invest Your First $100 in Under 2 Minutes

How To Invest Your First $100 in Under 2 Minutes

A lot of people have asked me how to invest your first $100 over the years. Here is my answer in under 2 minutes.

The Power of Constraints

The Power of Constraints

Our society looks at abundance only from a positive perspective; however, it also has a very dark side. If scarcity is a disease that inflicts people in socialist countries, overabundance is a sickness prevalent in capitalist ones.

How Stoicism Can Change Your Thinking – Conversations with Vitaliy – Ep 13

How stoic philosophy changed the way I think about life. 📩 Sign up for my free weekly email newsletter 🎙 Check out my weekly podcast, The Intellectual Investor. 📚 GET MY BOOKS Soul in the Game -   The Little Book of Sideways Markets...

Tax Loss Harvesting

Tax Loss Harvesting

With a few exceptions, which I’ll address at the end, tax-loss selling makes no logical sense. Let me give you an example.

Dont Let History Repeat Itself

Don’t Let History Repeat Itself

I always wondered what I would have done if I were a Jew living in Germany on November 9th, 1938. Kristallnacht, the night when Germans attacked Jews across the country. Would I run? Would I fight? Would it make a difference?

What happens in China may not stay in China – Ep 206

To understand what will happen in China and its impact on the global economy, we simply need to invert what happened over the last two decades. 📩 Sign up for my free weekly email newsletter 🎙 Check out my weekly podcast, The Intellectual...

10 Lessons in Investing Mastery

10 Lessons in Investing Mastery

People ask me what I learned from Warren Buffett or Charlie Munger. I hope their wisdom passes down to you as well with this 10 lessons in investing mastery.

Israel is Not Hamas Final Solution

Israel is Not Hamas’ Final Solution

Hamas, with sadistic creativity that made the Nazis look like amateurs, in just a few hours slaughtered 1,500 Jewish civilians. The Nazis tried hard to hide their atrocities. Not Hamas.

Are You In Control?

Are You In Control?

This is the concept that got me into stoicism. Dichotomy of Control.

The 5 Investing Books Everyone Should Read – Conversations with Vitaliy – Ep 12

There are 5 investing books that I think everyone should read. - Lawrence Cunningham - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - James Montier - Pat Dorsey 📩 Sign up for my free weekly email newsletter 🎙 Check out my weekly...

The Rise and Fall of Russia

The Rise and Fall of Russia

I was born in Russia, raised in Russia, but my shame for Russia is unrelenting.

Never Run Out of Ideas

Never Run Out of Ideas

People often ask me how I come up with ideas for investing. Here is my answer.

Charlie Munger's Rules For a Good Life

Charlie Munger’s Rules For a Good Life

I learned a lot from the great Charlie Munger, here are 5 Charlie Munger's rules for a good life that stick out to me.

Our investments in oil and natural gas stocks – Ep 205

I am about to discuss a topic that, for reasons that are unclear to me, has been politicized: oil and gas. I am writing this as a pragmatic analyst who looks at two factors: supply and demand. After all, I am not hired by you (IMA clients) to come up...