#12 In the Classroom

"A rich mental simulation of the future that allows you to get what you want"-Michio Kaku's definition of intelligenceFriday night, after the Certaint...

#11 The Monkey Mind

I refer to the "monkey mind" a lot. More specifically, I warn you to be aware of the tricks your monkey mind will play on you if you let it. What is the monkey mind and how do you know what to look for? I'm too lazy to type it out again, but this is copied and pasted from the August 2020 issue o...

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Force Multipliers #2

Ce n'est pas une question de discipline, c'est une question d'honnêteté. From the February 2021 Letter Another week, another newsletter, another inversion of conventional wisdom, and throwing a few more stones. In the classroom, or anywhere else people aren't burdened with contact with reality,...

#10 Competitive Or Petty?

“You are not competitive for your age, you are petty for your age” Years ago I was sitting in my office when a client walked in and started complaining that there weren’t any good races to enter and it was driving him nuts because he is, in his words, “so competitive, especially for my age”. T...

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#9 Mind The Gap

"Anxiety = powerlessness x uncerainty" Chip Conley Dan Nicholson introduced me to this quote a couple of years ago. In the CCA and in his book, Rigging The Game, he expands: using the distributive property he masterfully extrapolates this equation to finance: (Financial) anxiety = (financial) po...

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Force Multipliers #1

"Never cross a river that is on average 4 feet deep"Nassim Nicholas TalebThis is a newsletter. So buckle up. Newsletters, Blogs and How Does...

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#8 Newsletters

Man's greatest downfall is believing that what is relevent and accurate from his point of perception is relevent and accurate from all points of view. Humans are funny. Observe them at your own risk. Recently, my Twitter feed has been flooded with people that believe newsletters are the next b...

#7 Growing Trees

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago" - Warren Buffet The problem we have with planting trees, of course, is that they take so damn long to grow. But they don't have to. There are two ways to look at planting this metaphorical tree; a bias towar...

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#6 May The Force Be With You

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ArchimedesObservation:For about 12 years now I've observed...

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#5 Niche? No thanks

I went on a mini-crusade earlier this month throwing stones. Mostly at experts and specialists. I made an article comprised of two emails I sent two d...

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