I loved this book so much,
I got it as a gift for all my friends
This essay is not quite the same as the book, because it’s turned into something more.
It started as a review. I read the book twice, then I listened to it twice on Audible. But I still didn’t feel that I had internalized it enough – I needed to write about it. But what started out as a review grew into something more: it’s now a personal manifesto.
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Depressing Reasons Why I Am Bullish On Gold (part 2)
Here is what changed my mind. Not something about gold, but many things about the dollar. The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency. It has had a well-deserved place since WWII, and that rested on three things: the largest, steadiest, most diverse economy; a politically stable democracy; the best military.
Narrative Change (part 1)
Narrative change is a reversal of mass behavior. Economics and stock market valuation are governed by soft laws, but the reality bent by human behavior can disagree with these soft laws for much longer than rational actors would expect, or stay solvent. The change, going from euphoria to despair, is a change in narrative.
You Are Responsible for What You Have Tamed
As an entrepreneur, you always want to grow your business. Your current revenue and profit are never enough; they just set the bar higher for next year. We always want more. But this “more” has a hidden cost.
Chess Nights at Red Robin
I have vague first memories of playing chess with my grandfather when my family visited my father’s parents in Moscow. I was five years old.
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