Notes towards becoming a better investor
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Notes towards becoming a better investor
If you've carefully analyzed a situation but something still feels wrong, that discomfort deserves attention. It might signal that your unconscious mind has recognized a pattern your conscious analysis missed. This is particularly true in uncertain and dynamic situations where, as Gigerenzer points out, logical analysis often falls short.
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George Sudarkoff • Stop Analyzing Your Gut Feelings: A Counter-intuitive Guide to Better Leadership
The term at hand, umarell, is borrowed from Emilian and is rare enough for my word processor to display it underlined with a string of pink dots. Literally it means “little man,” but within my tiny sub-community it means “someone who spends time observing workspaces, typically construction jobsites.” I am an umarell. I love watching work being... See more
When you step into the Moat of Low Status, you also step away from the grinding of normalcy. On your first day of dance class, you don’t know how to move your body. Isn’t that exciting? You don’t know how to move your body. This thing you’ve been lugging around is now a whole new vehicle — it might move like a frenzied wolverine, or an indifferent... See more
Cate Hall • Learn to Love the Moat of Low Status
A Look Back at Q1 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings
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This write-up is about practical patterns for integrating large language models (LLMs) into systems & products
A Man Bakes Soulful Bread in a Renovated Garage | Sourdough Bread Making in Japan
youtu.bewhat is so interesting about baking bread?
“I’m always thinking about... It reminds me of the first person I was. Kids going crazy about beetle catching, playing in the water, etc. There's no reason for that one. They're just absorbed in it. But as we grow up, we tend to look for reasons and logic for such behaviour.
No, it's not that. [It’s] that kind of obsessed, sensory, original self. When I'm kneading dough by myself in a place like this, that's what it reminds me of.
So my mental age is getting more and more childish. I'm becoming a social misfit. I'm getting further and further away from organizational people."
What is neoliberalism anyway? One common understanding of the term describes neoliberalism as an ideology of “free markets” and “deregulation.” But this definition mistakes advertising for reality. A better understanding, and the one Baradaran implicitly invokes, sees neoliberalism as re-regulating, not deregulating. Rather than getting the state... See more