Hi everyone,Thanks for joining me today. I've had a good rest the past few weeks, and I hope everyone's having fun in the summer as well.Let's get into it.Today's SponsorWTF is an NFT? Alts demystifies and explains the hottest unique investment ideas...
Hi everyone,Thanks for joining me. My last update was in December, and what a ride it has been since then. I've started a new job as a lawyer, gotten married, and wrote my first article on a new project around tech and startups. This is probably an u...
Hi everyone,Thanks for joining me. My last update was in December, and what a ride it has been since then. I've started a new job as a lawyer, gotten married, and wrote my first article on a new project around tech and startups. This is probably an u...
Hey everyone,Thanks for joining me. Running a newsletter that runs on a regular cadence turns out to be really difficult over the long term, which is why after almost 4 years of struggling to put out an edition on a regular basis (and failing and the...
Hey there,Thanks for joining me. It's been awhile now since I've last sent out a post. Part of that comes from realising that a constant cadence might be useful for myself but not so much for you - sometimes there isn't that many items of value then...

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...