Great things do not happen on the first try. Many musicians record 50+ songs to select the 12 best ones for their album release. The rest gets trashed. Similarly, many business owners have a graveyard of failed projects before they finally hit something succesful. Maybe it was having the right co-founder, or the right contact [ ]
And some of my best friendships have been with those you’d never guess I’d get along with. An “unholy alliance” as they call it in geopolitics. I’m drawn to the serendipity of such unexpected bonds. I wasn t always like this. In the past, I sometimes dismissed people prematurely because of a minor thing I thought [ ]
There are people who are rich, yet who don t earn my respect. Because they ve become rich not by serving others or producing products that people want, but by doing things that only benefit themselves. I call them rich losers. They re often involved in things like crypto gambling, dropshipping, playing poker or malicious affiliate marketing. If [ ]
A long time ago, a young Japanese man decided to start his own bar. His bar did well, even though he noticed that only a tenth of the people liked his bar enough to come back. The other nine never returned. But that’s all he needed to sustain his business—one in ten. He ruminated on [ ]
An easy way to gain credibility in my eyes is by voicing harsh truths about your ingroup: Religious? 👉🏽 Criticize your religionAcademic? 👉🏽 Criticize academiaIndian? 👉🏽 Criticize Indiaetc.. The reverse also holds; Those who only talk positively of their ingroup look dumb as hell. Furthermore, criticizing your ingroup conditions you to think more freely about [ ]
This is a short document that I keep for my own use. It consists of things to customize, and a list of apps to install. I update it every once in a while to my own changing needs. Remove all the default icons from the Dock.Since you never use them. Change the default screenshot location [ ]
My all-time favorite ETF would have to be $VT. And it’s not even close. It’s the ultimate “total world” equity fund. If you’re High IQ: you’ll know that the V in $VT stands for Vanguard, known for their super low fees, while the T stands for “Total”, as it includes 10,000 global stocks, including emerging [ ]
Here’s a random collection of quotes that I’m saving “Make something people want.”— Paul Graham “People can admit when they’re logically wrong. They will never admit when they’re emotionally wrong.”— Paul Portesi “Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you.”— Pedro Domingos “An idiot admires complexity, a [ ]
Executive summary: If you have excess savings that you want to grow and compound with minimum drawdowns, you should put half of it in global stocks, a quarter in bonds, and the last quarter in gold. Rebalance yearly and go to the beach. The Persian Portfolio is an investment portfolio that consists of just three [ ]
Every person on the planet should have their own website, on their own domain name, and blog about whatever they want. I’ve had my own website since I was 13. I will not tell you the domain name because it contained some cringe ass shit that’s still visible on archive.org. But that’s not the point, [ ]