Journal
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What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. How can I help you? In the next post I will share why and what to ask instead.
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I watched an insightful lecture about How to Live an Asymmetric Life by Graham Weaver. It is part of Stanford’s Last Lecture Series. Check it out on YouTube. Here are some enlightening slides from that lecture:
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I don’t have New Year’s resolutions. Instead, I set intentions at the start of every year. I write my intentions in my physical weekly planner and digital journal. In 2024, all but one of the intentions I wrote down has been realized. Specifics don’t matter, but three big things, which were not entirely in my…
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I feel scared whenever I see a Chevy Silverado or RAM 1500 on the streets. And I am noticing an increasing number of these huge American trucks on the cramped suburban streets of Auckland. I understand why Americans might need such large trucks; their vast land mass and spacious freeways can accommodate them. However, from…
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In a rapidly rising market, the faster you trade, the better you’ll do — and that makes you forget that those whom the gods would destroy, they first make confident. The more you know, the higher the odds that you’ll make a serious mistake. That’s why it’s not the beginners who tend to die at…
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We are what we have always been – a nation of immigrants and immigrant descendants exporting minimally-processed commodities, creating good businesses for people offshore to buy and relocate, and focussed not on strong income growth but income redistribution and issues of egalitarianism. We are not stuffed, just like Fiji is not stuffed, nor Albania, nor…
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The below post is written by a customer service leader, on the blog of a company that sells helpdesk software. I, as a customer service professional, am amplifying it here. But it is really a nice post I read lately on the importance of customer service for any business. Check it out: Why Great Customer…
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What you own will eventually own you. What you consume will eventually consume you. Therefore, be mindful of what you own and consume.
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Whenever you trade a stock, you’re saying that you’re smarter than the person on the other side of the trade, which is generally not true. And when you think that you can time the market, you’re saying that you’re smarter than the collective wisdom of the market, which is not true more than 90% of…
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Blood Tests. I got my fasting glucose and fasting insulin tests done and pleased with my results. Two books. I completed reading these two little books: The rule of 72. I first heard about the Rule of 72 in this recent podcast. You can read more about it in this Investopedia article: The Rule of…