“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”― Lemony Snicket. You can only read a book front to back, right? Wrong....

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” ― René Descartes The average time an...

“We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” — Whoopi...

“Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson I was a lousy mentee. A really lousy mentee...

"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction" - John C. Crosby I used to enjoy a podcast called...

If there is one thing you take away from today's blog, it should be that to beat the market you need to understand the consensus and then...

Last week's blog on second order thinking was an introduction into how people beat the market. This week we are covering risk management...

Dear readers, I am so excited to be starting 2024 with you and hope we have some great discussions. Today's blog (#90) is relevant for...

“I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that's your responsibility as a person, as a human being – to constantly be...

Thank you. Thank you to all readers of the blog. Your comments, questions and follow-on discussions on the topics have been amazing and...

Ray Dalio: "The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist." John Templeton:...

“Investing is a funny business. It's really easy to be average. Just buy an index fund. It's really hard to be above average.”- Howard...

'Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.' - Daniel Kahneman Welcome to blog 85, which will be the...

Welcome to today's blog (number 84!). My sources are some of the smartest people I know and have distilled the tactics many people use. I...

"When people talk about fake news, a lot of folks are like 'people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out." -...

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” Robert Heinlein, Revolt in...

“Don’t confuse recognising information with being able to recall it.” - Adam Robinson This is the final installment of the learning...

“Cleverness is not wisdom.” - Euripides This short blog (#80!!) is an important one if you are keen to weed out pretenders and avoid...

“Learn from the mistakes of others … You can't live long enough to make them all yourself!” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Over the last 8 weeks...

“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” - Marvin Minsky Much of what I have written about is targeted at...

“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”- Howard Gardner Over the last couple of weeks, we have gone...

“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” - Bob Dylan I hope you love this one! I have enjoyed researching it. So far...

“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.” - Thomas Fuller So far in the series we...

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically” - Martin Luther King, Jr. In this series, we are...