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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Your Sophist Filter On CEOs, Cynics, and the Voice in Your Head

Your Sophist Filter: On CEOs, Cynics, and the Voice in Your Head

A great speaker can bend logic with emotions and exert undue influence on your decision making. The better someone speaks, the more discriminating your Sophist filter needs to be.
Go Ahead, Covet Your Neighbor’s Wife

Go Ahead, Covet Your Neighbor’s Wife.

I recently asked another value investor if he wanted Warren Buffett’s success. While this may seem like a rhetorical question, the truth is many value investors are quietly envious of Buffett.
Depressing Reasons Why I Am Bullish On Gold

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

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.

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With Hannah’s passion for chess growing and the lockdowns easing, we discovered the wonderful world of chess meetups.
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