I’ve just finished the first half of Ray Dalio’s book Principles. It’s great! In the book, he goes into a huge amount of detail and reiterates the points, in a valuable way. I recommend it. My paraphrasing of Ray’s summary of Life Principles: In order to have the best life possible, you have to: 1) … More Life Principles from Ray Dalio
Anyone is welcome to read my material but not all posts are intended specifically for public consumption. Often I’m just documenting my thoughts, learnings and conversations for myself so that I can come back to them again in the future. Sometimes I don’t share these posts with anyone, sometimes I only share them with a … More Wedding Speech | November 2017
I really enjoy podcasts! The radio, with its incessant advertisements and highly opinionated hosts, annoys me. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with opinions but some radio DJs seem to believe that their platform entitles them to strong opinions without substantiating those opinions. I’ve become very judicious of the content I allow into … More Podcast List to avoid being assaulted by the radio
Johann Hari’s Chasing the Scream is a history of the war on drugs that challenges the conventional societal understanding of this heated topic. The content is thankfully more entertaining than a factual recount because it follows the life stories of a few personalities; legislators, doctors, addicts, enforcers and dealers. The author has clearly used his … More Book Review: Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
“The man who broke the Bank of England” is widely acclaimed as one of the investment greats of our time so I thought it worthwhile to absorb his insights. I’m not sure if it was the tone, or approach or language, but reading the book was actually quite hard work. I struggled to engage with … More Book Review: The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
Great practical investment advice that pushed me to reflect on my thinking and approach to investments. Well worth a read! For now, I don’t think I can do the insights any more justice than merely summarising a number of the key points. Marks didn’t set out to write a manual for investing. The book is … More Book Review, “The Most Important Thing” by Howard Marks
A few blogs I read from time to time: http://www.epsilontheory.com/ http://www.alhambrapartners.com/ http://alexgurevich.tumblr.com/ https://www.hussmanfunds.com/ https://behavioralmacro.com/
The first few chapters of Hoppe’s “A Theory of Capitalism and Socialism” were absolute gold – some of the clearest political philosophy I’ve read. The explanation of the spectrum between conservative and revolutionary socialists was particularly enlightening and has changed the way I think about political parties. I now appreciate that most socialists are actually … More Book Review: A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hans Herman Hoppe
A wonderful play on words with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). This book is more psychology and philosophy focused than purely about investments, which is a familiar trend with my favourite investment books. Goodspeed takes us back to an old Chinese philosophy, Taoism, which contrasts against the more dominant Chinese philosophy of the past few hundred … More Book Review: The Tao Jones Averages by Bennett W. Goodspeed
The style of this book was a little more conversational than I would normally choose. It would sometimes felt like I was reading a diary entry, which is a little lighter than I’d prefer. It was nice for a change to read an easy-reading page turner though. I found the back and forth of the … More Book Review: Red Notice by Bill Browder
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