This is the fourth part of the series where I’m sharing those essays, articles, and speeches that pass the Lindy Filter. If you haven’t heard about this strange term called Lindy Filter, please read a detailed post I had written about Lindy Effect a few years back.
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The World’s Best Investing Checklist
Peter Kaufman has done an amazing job compiling some of the world’s best lessons on investment behaviour into a masterpiece. We know it as Poor Charlie’s Almanack, which is a collection of speeches and talks by Charlie Munger.
While the entire book is one amazing journey through the mind of one the greatest investment and behavioural thinkers of our times, one part that takes the cake is where Kaufman has condensed Munger’s teachings into a checklist.
He calls this “Investing Principles Checklist”, as it contains the core principles that has made Munger the brilliant investor he is today.
Spotlight: Lindy Beyond Books – Part 4
This is the fourth part of the series where I’m sharing with you those essays, articles, and speeches that pass the Lindy Filter. If you haven’t heard about this strange term called Lindy Filter, please read a detailed post I had written about Lindy Effect a few years back.
20 Rules of Formulating Knowledge
It’s estimated that one thing common between forty percent of medical students in western countries is a tool called Anki. Anki assists them in assimilating a gargantuan amount of information that medical education requires. Similarly, many language learning enthusiasts also use Anki to memorize the vocabulary of a new language. However, outside these two cohorts, Anki software is pretty much unknown. Recently, Anki has been picking up interest among people from the programming community and a bunch of self-proclaimed life-long-learners — Yours truly being one of them.
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Spotlight: Lindy Beyond Books – Part 3
This is the third part of the series. The idea is to share with you those essays, articles, and speeches that pass the Lindy Filter.
Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable
Written by Richard Zeckhauser in 2006, the paper looks at how to invest rationally in unknown and unknowable situations and how behavioral finance can shed light on these situations and decisions.
He starts by differentiating between Risk and Uncertainty. He defines risk as the probability of permanent loss of capital whereas uncertainty is the inherent unpredictability of the future.
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Spotlight: Lindy Beyond Books – Part 2
This is the second episode of the series I started last month. The idea is to share with you those essays, articles, and speeches that pass the Lindy Filter.
Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor is an interface designer and computer scientist. In January 2012 he delivered a speech titled Inventing on Principle at CUSEC (Canadian University Software Engineering Conference).
It’s perhaps one of the most remarkable talks on design, creativity, and how one should decide the work which is worth doing. Bret spends an hour advocating for a career built not on a craft or a process, but guided by a principle. In the process, he explains his own guiding principle, looks at examples from history and lays out the case for discovering one’s own guiding principle.
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