Hey friend,Thanks for joining me this week. For those of you who've lost track of time like me, it's already March, so it's probably a good time to start reflecting on whether you need to double down or ease up on your goals. For myself, it's my last...
Hey there,Thanks for joining me! It's the Lunar New Year and I've had a great time celebrating, although things are certainly different now with Covid-19 restrictions in place. It's certainly harder (and less safe) to visit the same amount of people...
Hey there,Thanks for joining me! It's the Lunar New Year and I've had a great time celebrating, although things are certainly different now with Covid-19 restrictions in place. It's certainly harder (and less safe) to visit the same amount of people...
Hi ,Thanks for joining me. It's been a wild two weeks for anyone who's been keeping an eye out on the stock markets. And that's not all that's happening in the business world. Just earlier today, Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO of Amazon after helming...
Hey ,2020 has been a difficult time for many of us and I hope you're doing well. It's been a long time since my newsletter because I've been struggling to balance law school with creating content. A large part of it stemmed from being overly ambitiou...
The Book In A Single Sentence Some ideas stick around more than others do, but you can control how effectively your message is communicated. Personal Thoughts This is one of those classic pop psychology books (in a good way). Chip and Dan Heath are t...
Forty thousand people gather annually in May at Omaha, Nebraska. Most of them can’t place the city on a map. That doesn’t stop devotees who come from all over the world to hear Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger speak for five hours. They start queui...
Not having enough information is a problem. George Akerloff was the first to detail this. In his Nobel-winning paper, The Market for Lemons, he observed that markets with asymmetric information would eventually collapse. Because only sellers would k...
It pays to be a winner. In a winner takes all world, second best doesn't count for much. This is what we know as the superstar effect: being the best allows you to reap disproportionately larger rewards than your peers who are only slightly less tale...
Before he became a successful epigrammatist, Marcus Valerius Martialis spent most of his early life serving the rich and wealthy. Martialis would perform a variety of tasks for his patron; he would travel with them everywhere they went, clearing thei...
When Zeno of Cyprus was shipwrecked and stranded on Athens, he wasn’t expecting any good to happen. Having lost everything and with not much else to do, Zeno wandered into a bookshop and was quickly absorbed by the teachings of Socrates. After studyi...
Seeing patterns everywhere? You're not alone. The post The Tetris Effect: How Everything You Do Shapes Your Reality appeared first on Constant Renewal.
A false path is something that we are attracted to for the wrong reasons such as fame, fortune, and attention. Our work suffers when that happens. The post The Only Way To Find Fulfilment And Meaning In Your Work appeared first on Constant Renewal.
The Book In A Single Sentence Knowledge works in very different and counter-intuitvie ways; perhaps having knowledge isn’t personally very important at all. Personal Thoughts The Knowledge Illusion is a great primer on how knowledge works. Why do we...
There are far more good opportunities and activities in the world than we realistically have time for. No matter how good the opportunity may be, it can very well still be trivial if it doesn’t help us to reach where we want to go The post The Unders...