Blog Posts

  • Zigging and zagging

    Zigging and zagging

    It has two main themes. The first theme is that lucky people follow a zig zag path in life. The second theme is that heavy ideologies must be avoided because they box you in and don’t allow you to zig zag. And therefore, in a world of ideas, we must be nomads, not settlers.

  • Anchoring Bias

    Anchoring Bias

    This post is about Anchoring bias in humans.

  • How foolish are you willing to look

    How foolish are you willing to look

    Warren Buffett said that he and Charlie are willing to look foolish provided they have not acted foolishly. In this blog, I am saying this is a superpower because it allows you to not fall for social proof and making independent decisions.

  • Falling for narratives

    Falling for narratives

    The mind likes to weave simple narratives around complex events. It makes it easier to store, understand and retell them. In investing it is better to have fewer narratives and be willing to go anywhere where there are opportunities.

  • Bias for now

    Bias for now

    Humans spent a majority of the time as hunter – gatherers. Therefore we have a bias for immediacy. This is both good news and bad news. Good news when we can use dashboards and other real time feedback for improvement. Bad news because Compound Interest is an invention of civilization which we are not programmed…