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Decentralizing into social classes

Crypto stands on the moral high ground of decentralising the powers from the few. But inadvertently social stratification exists within the crypto community just like the real world – the have’s and the have...

November 29, 2021| CYH Read More

There’s no sorry

I used to represent my school soccer team at different levels. During one of the training sessions I miskicked the ball and apologised to my senior teammate. He looked at me and said “there’s no sorry” sternly....

November 25, 2021| CYH Read More

Who is John Galt in China?

Atlas Shrugged is a book by Ayn Rand about a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. The capitalists are the protagonists in the story who struggle...

November 2, 2021| CYH Read More

What’s not going to change in the next 10 years

I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question:...

September 19, 2021| Strategy Read More

What’s your hotdog

(Excerpt from Rework by Jason Fried) The way to find the epicenter is to ask yourself this question: “If I took this away, would what I’m selling still exist?” A hot dog stand isn’t a hot dog stand without the...

September 19, 2021| Circle of Competence, Strategy, Via Negativa Read More

Learn from success, not failure

(Excerpt from Rework by Jason Fried) Another common misconception: You need to learn from your mistakes. What do you really learn from mistakes? You might learn what not to do again, but how valuable is that? You still...

September 19, 2021| Business, Founder, Success Read More

Nothing to something

Light bulbs at first had no power stations and cables. Telephones at first had no poles and lines. Cars at first had no petrol stations and roads. Trains at first had no stations and rails. Aeroplanes at first had no...

September 14, 2021| CYH Read More

Mean reversion is the most ironclad rule in financial markets

(Excerpt from What Works In Wall Street by James P. O’Shaungnessy) The most ironclad rule I have been able to find studying masses of data on the stock market, both in the United States and developed foreign markets,...

September 3, 2021| Investing, Mean Reversion Read More

Books that define each decade of investing

(Excerpt from The Books That Help Explain Every Market Cycle of the Past 80 Years by Ben Carlson) 1940s: Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? by Fred Schwed Schwed did a wonderful job exposing Wall Street and its...

September 2, 2021| Investing Read More

Life imprisonment gives you financial freedom

What if you can achieve financial freedom immediately, would you do it? It is not a lottery ticket or some scams. Think about it – you can commit a crime that warrants a life imprisonment sentence and you will...

September 1, 2021| CYH Read More

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