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Intelligent vs. Smart

Here’s an important distinction to make in life.

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A Few Stories About Big Decisions

In 1964, Warren Buffett owned shares in an old industry company with fading prospects.

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How to Read: Lots of Inputs and a Strong Filter

My reading strategy is to start as many books as I can but finish few of them.

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Everything Is Cyclical

French geologists recently discovered that a Himalayan mountain suffered a massive landslide 800 years ago.

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Smart Things Smart People Said

A few lines I came across recently that I liked…

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A Few Questions

Whose life do I admire that is secretly miserable…

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Why You Believe The Things You Do

I remember reading an article years ago about a father in Yemen who lost a son to starvation, only to…

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Fear of Acorns

I am a big fan of fables.

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Compounding Optimism

Let me share a little theory I have about optimism, and why progress is so easy to underestimate.

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Paying Attention

Sherlock Holmes says in the book, The Study of Scarlet…

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Expectations Debt

I live in Seattle, and Amazon is our giant.

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The Spectrum of Financial Dependence and Independence

“I did not intend to get rich.

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Vicious Traps

There are times in nature when two plus two equals ten – when two little things combine to form one…

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Some Things I Think

The fastest way to get rich is to go slow.

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One Big Web: A Few Ways the World Works

Joseph Tussman, a UC Berkeley philosophy professor, wrote in the 1960s that, “What the pupil must learn, if he learns…

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