This exchange between Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger is golden—lessons for building wealth and living a better life: Buffett: "Write your obituary and try to figure out how to live up to it. For business, You just want to make sure you don't make any mistakes that take you

“We are built with an almost infinite capacity to believe things because the beliefs are advantageous for us to hold, rather than because they are even remotely related to the truth.” collabfund.com/blog/why-you-b… via Collab Fund

‘There’s an industry-wide mental health crisis’: authors and publishers on why the books sector needs to change theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…

Rich and Anonymous Thoreau once explained: “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” collabfund.com/blog/rich-and-… via Collab Fund

Inevitable this... What comes next in this whole sorry farrago?

Seems the bonfire building under Dame Alison Rose is even bigger than the wildfires in Greece. #ClimateChaos

She is little deserving of sympathy believe me. Love how this played out. theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Peter Principle at play. Bring back Ross McEwan someone of real integrity. theguardian.com/business/2023/…

A focus on doing the basics well is the key to any business. A drive toward 'purpose' though laudable does hold you to a higher standard. Sadly she fell short. news.sky.com/story/dame-ali…

It's so important to understand this #systemsthinking "Goals are for people who care about winning once. Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly." -James Clear

The nine sources of competitive advantage and most of these are within your control. A great Tiny Thought this week in the FS newsletter. fs.blog/brain-food/aug…

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"The reason artists don’t need market research is because they’re already immersed in the world they’re making for." Future of Strategy 2023 | via @warceditors warc.com/newsandopinion…

That's some trick... Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research theguardian.com/science/2023/n…

It could have been a cat burglar... theguardian.com/football/2023/…

Great from Mark Earls. Now includes the A.I. we all swim in too. "We use other people's brains to navigate the world: to acquire skills and practices, and to access knowledge systems of long-dead strangers. We call this 'culture'." goodreads.com/quotes/307812 via Goodreads

Further evidence that work itself has the greatest impact on a worker's wellbeing. What you require them to do, where and how.

"I worry that they have a bigger problem to address: how to make computer people care about everything else as much as they care about computers." archive.today/SLknv

🔢 Your Scotland team for tonight’s @EURO2024 opener. #GERSCO | #EURO2024

This is Jeff Bezos’s favorite book. He’s been rereading it for 25 years straight, and it inspired his most famous decision-making model. Here are the 7 lessons from "The Remains of the Day" that helped him build his $200B+ Amazon empire: 🧵