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The Two Train Solution

The answer is always both

Solomon Kahn

Jun 11

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This newsletter article is around the size of a LinkedIn post, but the idea is so important I want to make sure it lives somewhere permanent on the internet instead of lost in the void of old social media posts.

This Substack is... See more

Graham

So I was 12 years old. My parents went through a really bitter, ugly divorce. We changed schools to a new school, so I didn't really have friends. So the ground beneath me was pretty unsettled.

Grew up in a small town in Ohio, in the Rust Belt outside of Toledo. And I mowed lawns—I mowed lawns about six hours a weekend to make money. That was... See more

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and make plans.”

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Clearly, improved performance is an age-old aspirational goal of the active management industry – one that has proven elusive. But in a sign of the times – namely leveraging advanced technology and drawing inspiration from other industries — there is an emerging approach to active management that has demonstrated its ability to outperform. It is bu... See more

John Rush

@johnrushx

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Jul 6

1. Cold emails:

- go for quality, not quantity

send to 20 people; if no reply, change the copy and resend. repeat until 2 replies.

- make it super short and include the outcome E.g. for @listingbott I'd send this "100 backlinks from relevant directories in one click"

John Rush

@johnrushx

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Jul 6

2. Social media DMs (Li, X, IG, FB, ... See more

The Perspective Shift That Changes Everything

One of my favorite quotes comes from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse:

“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”

It highlights a story that plays out over and over again in our lives:

You’re doing the work. You’re showing up. You’re taking ac... See more

Additionally, the company ensures its data is backed up in multiple locations.

“We’re maniacal about redundancy,” McKeown told me. “I never want to be leveraged by a single data provider—we have multiple sources to protect against pricing hikes or supply disruptions.”