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Smashter wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 19, 2019 3:21 pm

Whoa! Why bury this in a PM? I'm sure a ton of people could benefit from your actionable advice.

Possibly because it's been covered on the forum...I highly recommend reading through cimorene12's journal from a couple years back if you haven't yet.

Great thread. I worked as a management consultant for the first 6 years of my career. Not an MBB firm, although we competed successfully against them in a number of places. We owned a niche part of a niche business and executed on it very well. (Which, incidentally is a textbook strategic approach.)...

Good podcast with Epstein out today that shares a lot of the ideas (Invest Like the Best): https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mathew ... refid=stpr

Relevant books from my reading list as I've grappled with psychological issues / unhappiness / whatever since 2012, with some sort of descriptor from my reading journal (some are more helpful than others), presented in the order in which I read them. Quite a list! Thank you so much. Enjoy these par...

I've continued my reading into meditation, having recently slogged through a dense book on the intersection of psychology and meditation. I may post some of my reading notes here some day, but I don't have the energy to try to condense my 6 (!) single-spaced pages of reading notes into something co...

Re: the white collar / blue collar dichotomy, isn't it plausible that white collar jobs be just as affected? Maybe in a way they are more vulnerable because you don't even need a robot to replace you, just a good enough computer program. The computing resources needed to run these programs are cheap...

I remember hearing a discussion about this someplace, but damned if I can remember where. Hell, it might've been on this board... The upshot was that the species will produce some number of iconoclasts/misfits. And that these members of the culture take risks and deviate from the behaviors of the no...

@OP: You're in FL? Done the keys? Get a kayak and paddle around, the whole state has tons of water trails (maybe some pictures here https://www.floridarambler.com/florida-camping/kayak-trail-fisheating-creek-florida/ are inspiring?). Everglades are gorgeous. Learn to sail? Take a small craft from Ke...

+1 on Finite and Infinite Games. Really unique book. It might actually be enough of a mindshift to solve this problem.

I recently hacked up a web app(*) to help myself find people to follow on Twitter. Basically you input two twitter users that you like, and I show you the friends they have in common so you can see if there are others you'd like to add. This isn't novel or difficult, but it's implemented in a way th...

I have read most of them. There are common threads and interesting connections throughout them all but I can't think of any single book that summarizes all the ideas. I would pick whichever one seems the most interesting. They all took me longer to read than I thought they would - good ideas, discur...

I have been pondering this exact thing for a while. My current role is managerial and I have no technical training except self study, but I'm slightly obsessed with machine learning. We have some PhD data scientists in our department and I would much rather be doing their work. But I'm paid to manag...

Reminds me of this book I had checked out of the library a couple of months ago (sadly it came due before I could get more than a chapter or two in, but would be a good read for someone who found the OP interesting). What I remember learning from it is that the self-similar nature of natural and hum...

So I was buried in work all week and am surprised to see this thread still on the 'active topics' page. Thanks everyone for the love. Honestly, I don't know how some of the power-posters here do it- such a large amount of well-formulated prose on a variety of topics! I definitely can't keep up. I do...

There's something called the volatility skew ...And I've already learned a new vocab word. Thanks! Reading up on it. Regarding tail risk, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel like it's starting to get elevated, and so I'm looking for a way to position myself such that I'm able to benefit f...

I have been inspired slash maybe a bit shamed into posting here. I have been reading the blog/forum since (oh jeez) 2009. Basically after graduating from college it took less than a month before I came home and asked google how to retire as early as humanly possible. Since then, I've made a lot of p...

[Hello! First post. I will introduce myself shortly on the introductions sub-forum (edit: here ). This is an investing question, but I usually find investing boring overall and generally neglect it. So if it's too noob, please say so and I will remove it.] My current asset allocation contains a lar...