This Sam Zell quote really has wormed its way into my head, I often say I’m chairman of everything and the CEO of nothing. I stick to what I’m good at - vision, direction, strategy. That’s where I add the most value. I spend almost my entire day listening to other people. I ask questions, … Continue reading Sam Zell: Chairman Of Everything, CEO Of Nothing
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Sam Zell’s Playboy Business
Sam Zell was known for his investment acumen. But Patrick O’Shaugnessy shared this quote on where one of his first business ideas came from: On one of my walks I discovered a newsstand underneath the “L” tracks. It was 1953, and a provocative new magazine called Playboy had just made its debut featuring Marilyn Monroe … Continue reading Sam Zell’s Playboy Business
Podcast Of The Week: Zeihan With Rogan
Zeihan is getting more famous than ever. Who else is going to make the intersections between geography and geopolitics cool? While I may not be able to tell everyone to read at least the first handful of chapters from The Accidental Superpower, I’m hoping some of you will check out Zeihan’s brain getting the Rogan … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Zeihan With Rogan
Podcast Of The Week: Tales From The Crypto [FTX Podcast Collection]
Somebody else made a “Tales from the Crypto” joke already I’m sure, but I thought of it now and I’m running with it damnit. With the FTX bankruptcy and crypto ponzi blowups making headlines all around us, I’ve been fascinated by just what happened, who got sucked in (and how), and how the world is … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Tales From The Crypto [FTX Podcast Collection]
Why Hindsight = Opportunity, But Foresight = Risk
This Morgan Housel quote is about markets. It’s also about anything we thought was scary but did anyway in our past, and anything we think looks scary and aren’t sure if we’ll do in our future. Every past market crash looks like an opportunity, but every future market crash looks like a risk. In markets, … Continue reading Why Hindsight = Opportunity, But Foresight = Risk
Podcast Of The Week: Ben Hunt on Panic With Friends
Ben Hunt returned to Howard Lindzon’s Panic With Friends podcast a few weeks ago - and if you missed it, it’s worth the revisit. Hunt is one of my favorite thinkers on how to think about people’s behavior in the context of markets. If you’re not a finance person, think about it as how marketing … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Ben Hunt on Panic With Friends
Podcast Of The Week: It’s All About Bottlenecks
In finance, “macro” people are the ones who operate at the big-picture level. It’s not just stocks and bonds, but they (typically) factor commodities, exchange rates, politics, and all sorts of other things into their analysis. Sometimes they sound really smart, but aren’t. Sometimes they sound really tin-foil hat, and they are. And sometimes, if … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: It’s All About Bottlenecks
Want Wealth? Go Where The MBAs… Arent?!
Dan Rasmussen and Nicholas Rice at Verdad have a fascinating piece out called, “The MBA Indicator.” They studied which industries the graduating MBAs of Wharton have joined over time, and then tracked the stock performance of each sector in search of some correlation. What they found is that the more freshly-anointed MBAs were joining a … Continue reading Want Wealth? Go Where The MBAs… Arent?!
Stories Set Prices, But Changing Stories Move Prices
I was listening to a person talk about selling their house. They’re kicking themselves they should have moved when the market was hot last year, but they had some more work to do, and surely it’s still worth it now that everything in the house is perfect, right? The story sets the price. They sound … Continue reading Stories Set Prices, But Changing Stories Move Prices
Podcast Of The Week: Impassioned Founders (New Favorite Podcast!)
I had seen David Senra referenced/retweeted/etc. a few times, but I didn’t think I needed another podcast about business founders. Boy was I wrong. Senra was on the Invest Like The Best podcast with Patrick O’Shaughnessy and let’s just say if you don't know him - start here. All he does is read bios, make … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Impassioned Founders (New Favorite Podcast!)