Inversion Tag Archive

Nuclear, flying and guns are safer than you think

(Excerpt from Motherf*ckin’ Monday 4 Nov 2019 edition by Mark Manson) Quite simply, nuclear power would save lives. For every nuclear power accident, hundreds of thousands of people die due to fossil fuel-related...

November 11, 2019| Availability Bias, Inversion, Nonlinearity Read More

Be the last mover

(Extracted from Zero to One by Peter Thiel) You’ve probably heard about “first mover advantage”: if you’re the first entrant into a market, you can capture significant market share while competitors...

September 21, 2019| Inversion, Strategy Read More

Losing $1 for most expirations and making $10 more than 9.1% of the time

(Extracted from Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb) There is another type of satisfaction provided by the option seller. It is the steady return and the steady feeling of reward—what psychologists call flow. It...

September 20, 2019| Inversion, Investing, Nonlinearity Read More

Seek negative feedback

(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Another study, titled “Tell Me What I Did Wrong,” showed that a shift takes place when people are on the path to expertise. Novices seek and need positive...

September 20, 2019| Inversion, Life, Via Negativa Read More

Overconfident people are more dangerous than incompetent people

(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Incompetence is a problem that inexperienced people have, and all things being equal, we don’t entrust inexperienced people with all that much power or...

September 20, 2019| Inversion, Overconfidence Bias, People Read More

Tech founders with extreme strength and serious flaws are often the outliers

(Excerpt from Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker) Marc Andreessen spoke at Stanford, saying: . . . the venture capital business is 100 percent a game of outliers, it is extreme outliers . . . We have this...

September 20, 2019| Inversion, Tech Read More

Be less wrong

(Excerpt from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Most of our beliefs are wrong. Or, to be more exact, all beliefs are wrong—some are just less wrong than others. We shouldn’t seek to find the...

September 19, 2019| Inversion, Life, Via Negativa Read More

For value investing to work, it has to stop working sometimes

(Extracted from Why Value Investing Works on safalniveshak.com) The fact that the value approach doesn’t work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term....

September 18, 2019| Inversion, Investing Read More

Destroy your best-loved ideas constantly

“Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.” Charlie Munger...

September 16, 2019| Inversion Read More

Curious incident of the dog in the night-time

(Extracted from The Adventure of Silver Blaze on Wikipedia) Gregory: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”...

September 15, 2019| Inversion Read More

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