Advertisers and public relations professionals have understood for decades how to use psychological techniques to sell products and promote ideas. Coming from the world of business, Trump is VERY aware of these techniques and employs them to promote his narratives. — Steven Hassan (@CultExpert) December 24, 2019
$INV: Jerry Neumann has some advice for aspiring VCs | Dec 2019
So here’s my advice, which you will not take: (1) Buy low, sell high, with the caveat that the average market price today is obviously not low — Jerry Neumann (@ganeumann) December 22, 2019
$INV: Men going through a divorce should engage a lawyer to negotiate for proper child custody rights because your children’s needs will change as they grow up | Dec 2019
This is a hard time of year for me. I just dropped my kids off + I won’t see them for almost two weeks. This is bc I made a terrible uninformed decision when I got divorced. I just wanted the pain to stop so I agreed to a bad schedule. Men going thru divorce: […]
$INV: An interview with Willie Simmons, a man who has spent the last 38 years in prison for stealing $9 | Dec 2019
THREAD: Today I talked to Willie Simmons, who has spent the last 38 years in prison for stealing $9. He was convicted of 1st degree robbery & sentenced to life without parole in 1982, prosecuted under Alabama’s habitual offender law because he had 3 prior convictions. 1/12 pic.twitter.com/s5BNK2Ejyd — Beth Shelburne (@bshelburne) December 22, 2019
$INV: Most of the important scientific and technological invention have been made by people over 40 | Dec 2019
1) This is so incorrect and has been pretty much disputed by research in the last decade: https://t.co/FDFuDojJ6D Most of the important scientific and technological invention has occurred in people over 40. https://t.co/SR4jXsdLTL — Sarah Cone (@impcapital) December 22, 2019
$INV: 19 things Nassim Nicholas Taleb is proud of having done in 2019 | Dec 2019
2019, Personal Review 1-Managed to Yuugely upset monocultures: both anti-Iran & pro-Iran shills; both pro-Trump & anti-Trump; both the “left” & the Neo-nazis/Quillette/eugenists. 2-Busted IQ as a fraud,on stat/math grounds. 3-Finished Stat Cons Fat Tails, Tech Incerto vol 1 — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) December 21, 2019
$INV: Thread on aspects of good investing | Dec 2019
Just broke Venkat so I’ll do my own assignment. 1 like = 1 opinion on… investing, I guess. Maybe a few per like if no one wants to play. https://t.co/ZeQvbRekHL — Liz (@LAForeverHall) December 14, 2019
$INV: This is how inter-generational trauma healing looks like | Dec 2019
Today I heard a beautiful conversation. My husband who is the son of two Chinese/Taiwanese immigrants got a call from his parents and they wanted to talk to him about his childhood. His dad at the age of 65 decided to start therapy. He wanted to apologize. — Liz McTan is Marlene is Redheaded Rambling […]
$INV: Why high PE-ratio / unprofitable hyper-growth stocks are worth buying | Dec 2019
On high PE ratios or non-profitability of SaaS + other young growth companies – Most of the hyper-growth companies in my portfolio either have (a) no earnings or (b) they are trading at triple digit PE ratios. Before dismissing these businesses as potential investments,… — Puru Saxena (@saxena_puru) December 15, 2019
$INV: Modern economics fails to adequately capture Individualism-Collectivism dynamics | Dec 2019
Glen Weyl has fascinating ideas around the relationship bwt private & public goods (& btw individualism and collectivism) that call for us to potentially transcend the nation state & the corporation as currently conceived Here’s me gathering & making sense of his ideas: — Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) December 16, 2019 Glen Weyl has fascinating ideas […]
$INV: How investment (spending!) creates wealth | Dec 2019
Thread: How Investment (Spending!) Creates Wealth When economists talk about “investment,” they’re talking about spending: purchasing, or paying people to create, long-lived (productive) goods. 1/n — Steve Roth (@asymptosis) December 13, 2019
$INV: Mosaicing your way to a cogent investment thesis
The lawyers are right! The method of #Gathering, #Weighing, and #Analyzing the information to form a #Mosaic can help form a cogent thesis which might be highly differentiated from the general Market Opinion. Has to be devised + constantly tested against actual results. https://t.co/9Da162IDga — MBB (@LockStockBarrl) December 12, 2019
How to grow an Independent Asset Management Firm
Introduction “Trust is gold,” a fund manager once remarked at an industry conference. Building trust between clients and investment professionals is critical to healthy, long-term relationships from which sustainable growth can be generated. Importantly, to paraphrase Paul Volcker, the recently departed former Fed Chairman, credibility must be built during peace time for managers to call […]
Q: What is one thing that everyone in your field knows and nobody in your industry talks about because it would lead to general chaos? | Nov 2019
YouTube/TikTok/Twitch/etc’s success are reliant on constantly teasing massive numbers of people with potential rewards that will come for only a tiny percentage of them, making it different from Hollywood only because, on YouTube, at least you get to own your own work. For now. https://t.co/BmzGUTAZ9L — Hank Green **PIH.org/hankandjohn** (@hankgreen) November 27, 2019
$INV: “Getting rid of piracy.. wouldn’t change how much most people spend on entertainment” because people have a finite budget for entertainment | Nov 2019
Piracy. Here’s the thing: Piracy is not taking money out of our wallets. Getting rid of pirated comics won’t cause readers to spend more money buying comics. To illustrate why, let me talk about when I was a teen. — Barry makes comics (@barrydeutsch) November 26, 2019