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machine-oriented populations, particularly in the investing world, is both a challenge and an opportunity as each sect is not fully utilizing the capabilities of the other. Good Bloomberg article from…
…Morningstar published this chart of the ten largest ETFs and their average holding period. There’s all sorts of caveats to showing a chart like this — some of the causes…
…we need to start over on the question of the right amount of risk to take. For that, you’ll have to wait for Part 2. PDF Download (Paid Subscription Required):…
…why I put up with chickens and sheep, both of whom are just about the stupidest and most selfish animals on this green earth. And it’s why I’m particularly interested…
…in its achievements to date. In the taking-over-the-world corner, we have this canonical article titled “How AI is taking over the global economy in one chart.” The absolute comparisons of…
…blacklisted by China’s online censors: “Social media ban for fictional bear follows comparisons with Xi Jinping.” Original FT article here (possibly pay-walled) and lower resolution derivative article (not pay-walled) by…
…develop models which are positive for near-term reward maximization but do not necessarily deal with longer-term consequence or long tail events, and so become very hard for human overseers to…
…at heart. Since we’ve decided it’s now acceptable to terminate employees for expressing wrongthink, I’ve started firing anyone who doesn’t see my copy of The Road to Serfdom and slam…
corpus of the out-of-the-money bid for any security or market, and like their counterparts in the Mean-Reversion Archetype we’ll read about shortly, that’s when they tend to participate in the…
get hit, it’s your own fault! Lisa: OK, then I’m gonna start kicking air like this. <Closes eyes and starts kicking at random> And if any part of you should…
…simply this: Homey don’t play that game. Whee! I bet you’re a real hoot at cocktail parties, Ben. But can we come back to Planet Earth now? Yeah, sorry about…
…diagnose and difficult to treat once established. Once transferred via tick saliva, the wormlike burgdorferi bacteria quickly spread throughout the human host, particularly into joints, the heart and the brain….
Download a PDF of Things Fall Apart (Part 1).Listen to an audio recording of Things Fall Apart (Part 1). Also available at: Things Fall Apart Part 1 Part 2 Part 3…
…style, it’s like trading in the family minivan for a motorcycle and telling your wife what a great deal you got and how this is really the perfect way to…
…but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. – Isaac Asimov, “Foundation’s Edge” Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our…
…more for that.” I feel the same way about what I write, particularly on social media like Twitter. We’ve reached a new height (depth, really) of what I call “mirror…
…the Walmartization of Advice. I know that sounds bad, but that’s only because you don’t like Walmart as much as I do. I say it with equal parts admiration and…
…In the meantime, Draghi will go forward with his ABS purchase scheme, a brilliant theory that will deliver frustratingly slim results quarter after quarter after quarter. Until the politics of…
…– History of the World, Part I (1981) There is only one prayer I know which God always answers: ‘O God, make me humble.’ When I was growing up in…
Download a PDF of Things Fall Apart (Part 3) Listen to an audio recording of Things Fall Apart (Part 3) Also available at: Things Fall Apart Part 1 Part 2 Part 3…