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Second order thinking
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...
hbsingh
Jan 5, 20246 min read


2024 topics
“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...
hbsingh
Dec 22, 20232 min read


2023 - the review
Thank you. Thank you to all readers of the blog. Your comments, questions and follow-on discussions on the topics have been amazing and...
hbsingh
Dec 15, 20233 min read


Why we make investment mistakes
Ray Dalio: "The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist." John Templeton:...
hbsingh
Dec 8, 20237 min read


Why beginner investors are lucky
“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...
hbsingh
Dec 1, 20234 min read


Why are investment decisions important?
'Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.' - Daniel Kahneman Welcome to blog 85, which will be the...
hbsingh
Nov 24, 20232 min read


Protecting yourself from propaganda
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...
hbsingh
Nov 17, 20236 min read


Digital Propaganda
"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." -...
hbsingh
Nov 10, 20236 min read


Propaganda 101
“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” Robert Heinlein, Revolt in...
hbsingh
Nov 3, 20236 min read


Learning is testing
“Don’t confuse recognising information with being able to recall it.” - Adam Robinson This is the final installment of the learning...
hbsingh
Oct 27, 20237 min read


Beware of clever fools
“Cleverness is not wisdom.” - Euripides This short blog (#80!!) is an important one if you are keen to weed out pretenders and avoid...
hbsingh
Oct 12, 20234 min read


Revision tips 1: Learning is training
“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...
hbsingh
Oct 6, 20238 min read


Neurodiversity - different ways of learning
“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...
hbsingh
Sep 29, 20234 min read


What do we really mean by learning?
“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”- Howard Gardner Over the last couple of weeks, we have gone...
hbsingh
Sep 22, 20234 min read


How to remember long term?
“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...
hbsingh
Sep 15, 20236 min read


Making things memorable
“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.” - Thomas Fuller So far in the series we...
hbsingh
Sep 8, 20235 min read


How to learn intensely
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically” - Martin Luther King, Jr. In this series, we are...
hbsingh
Sep 1, 20235 min read


Creating curiosity
“Genuine learning is impossible without curiosity.” – Naval Ravikant For Blog 73, we are tackling a thorny issue around learning....
hbsingh
Aug 24, 20234 min read


The 5 steps of learning
'I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand ' - Confucius Your brain works like Google - a cue can access memories...
hbsingh
Aug 18, 20235 min read


Why do we learn?
“A man who asks, is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.” - Chinese Proverb I find learning a fascinating...
hbsingh
Aug 11, 20235 min read


Test your EQ!
“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels” ― Daniel Goleman Welcome to Blog 70! It is all about EQ and...
hbsingh
Aug 4, 20232 min read


3 beach books and half time commentary
"In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime." - Andy Andrews As I sign off for the first half of the year...
hbsingh
Jul 13, 20233 min read


Analysis Paralysis - how to understand and overcome it
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action." - Walter Anderson I’m delighted to write this blog for a long time reader on analysis...
hbsingh
Jul 7, 20234 min read


Procrastination is fear
“There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act”- Harry S. Truman I have the...
hbsingh
Jun 30, 20235 min read
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