Warren Buffet – Q 1121

8 Quotes If merely looking up past financial data would tell you what the future holds, the Forbes 400 would consist of librarians. – Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (February 2009) Degree of difficulty counts in the Olympics; it doesn’t count in business. You don’t get any extra points for the fact that something’s very … Read more

The Unreasonable Power of Checklists

One of the main lessons from Thinking: Fast and Slow is that we tend to be more overconfident than we should be. In most cases, we can afford to be this way because the consequences of failing are not too bad. But some professions cannot afford this luxury. One day over breakfast, a medical resident … Read more

Warren Buffet – QMB 1121

8 Quotes If merely looking up past financial data would tell you what the future holds, the Forbes 400 would consist of librarians. – Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (February 2009) Degree of difficulty counts in the Olympics; it doesn’t count in business. You don’t get any extra points for the fact that something’s very … Read more

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Summary (9/10)

Selected excerpts from Things Hidden Since The Foundation of the World by Rene Girard. Fundamental Anthropology “The most we can do is to recognize as the one who produces symbolic forms, systems of signs, and who then confuses them with ‘reality’ itself, forgetting that in order to make reality meaningful he interposes an always particular … Read more

How To Make Better Investments? QMB 1021

Five Quotes  The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. – Warren Buffett If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. – Norman Ralph Augustine In the short run, the market is a voting machine. But in the long run, it … Read more

Valis Summary (8.2/10)

Valis is Phillip K Dick’s fictional novel based on a real life story, when he had a transcendent experience. He describes how he was transported into a different dimension after encountering a fish sign. A moment of pure information flow gave him knowledge of the past and the future. He had transcended time. The narrator … Read more

The Top 19 Books On Productivity

The 4-Hour Workweek The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Getting Things Done… Fast! : The Ultimate Stress-Free Productivity System Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What … Read more

The Top Books About Finance

The Man Who Solved the Market Title: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Author(s): Gregory Zuckerman First Published: 2019 The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success would impact his firm … Read more

Myth 20: Researchers Have Demonstrated that Dreams Possess Symbolic Meaning

Dream dictionaries are books that help people explain the symbolic meaning to their dreams. These books promise to change your life very quickly. Websites exist for this purpose, so do software programs. Dream interpretation is good business. Unfortunately, it’s all bullshit.  Why do people have these beliefs? Some movies and television shows capitalize on the … Read more