It doesn’t count as being busy if you’re working on things that don’t matter to avoid working on things that do.

If there is a secret to investing, I’m convinced it’s this: There are few truly special companies. In the moment, they trade at fair multiples thus reasonable, but not spectacular, implied returns. Then they surprise on the upside presenting the opportunity to build tremendous

Ideas without action aren’t ideas. They’re regrets.  – Steve Jobs

If you want to improve the taste of your food, just add fat. If you want to improve your stock returns just add profitable stocks. Simple solutions. Great results

"Every night at about 4:30PM I get 272 charts. They cover just about every group in the stock market, every commodity, every currency cross I'm interested in, every fixed income market around the world...daily, weekly, and monthly [charts]...When I make an investment

HOW LONG STARSHIP WOULD TAKE TO REACH THE REST OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Starship’s travel times hit you with that mix of wonder and quiet disbelief you only get when the numbers stop feeling like numbers and start feeling like distances carved into reality. A burn from Earth to

Have posted these before but was thinking of them this morning: Quotes on timing in business and investing. Some are mine, others I've picked up. - Stanley Druckenmiller: "I never use valuation to time the market. I use liquidity considerations and technical analysis for

Programmers were asked to make the worst volume control for a contest

If someone uses the term “first principles”, I generally assume whatever will follow is complete & utter nonsense.

If we all have more children, they can be put to work on these wheels to generate power for the AI data centers.

Sounds facetious but if you actually 1) read voraciously 2) think critically about that information from first principles, and 3) have a time horizon longer than a few months, you've already separated yourself from the majority. Applies to many facets of life, not merely

Fun Fact: McD created Redbox in 2002 and then eventually sold it off in 2009. It was originally called “Tiktok Easy Shops” and was stocked with items you may run out of at the house. Pivoted to DVD’s in 2004 & changed the name to Redbox. This venture was apart of a non-core McD

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday. -- Erwin Schrödinger

BREAKING: Tomorrow is Warren Buffett's last day as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett took the stock from $19/share in 1965 to $750,000/share today, up +3,950,000%. Congratulations to the best investor of all time.

Friend says "hey she told me she thinks you're cute" and suddenly you walk up to her like God sent you. But without that confirmation you're timid as can be Hiring manager says "fyi the team loved you" and your next interview is pure flow state. But zero feedback and now you're

There's a famous saying about how every dead body on mt everest was once a highly motivated person. There's gotta be a similar saying about how every dead microcap that's down 75%+ from peak once had a loud group of holders at the top screaming how it's still undervalued

I hate seeing people kick others on the way down. It’s ungraceful and unhelpful. If you had the balls - call it out on the way up. And remember karma is a bitch.

old age begins the day your curiosity dies

Z_ai glm5 agentic chat is by far the best chat tool out today.

first year of trading: “I don’t know anything” ten years of trading: “nobody knows anything”