May 25Unraveling the Secret to Superior Investment Strategy: The Personal Economic BenchmarkSuppose you are a believer in the philosophy of value or focus investing. In that case, you inherently understand that market prices don’t always equate to the intrinsic worth of a company. Thus, market prices often fall short as a reliable yardstick for assessing a company’s real-time performance. This begs…Investing3 min readInvesting3 min read
Mar 8Investing Fundamentals: Probabilities (Free Tool)“If you don’t get this elementary, but mildly unnatural, mathematics of elementary probability into your repertoire, then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.” — Charles T. Munger If you’re like me when I started learning how to invest, I knew I should…7 min read7 min read
Sep 30, 2022The Lens Of AsymmetryThe Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) claims that if an investor wants higher rewards they must take greater risk. This belief in the symmetry of the public market is one of the pillars of EMH. The idea that you can find an investment that is low-risk and high-reward, on the other…10 min read10 min read
Mar 18, 2022Writing unoriginal contentIf you look over my blog posts you’ll see they have giant multi-year gaps between them. The main reason is simply my changing interests, and/or cynicism, at a given moment, and how I get caught up with other activities. …Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
Feb 17, 2022The Psychology of CensorshipMost Americans condemn censorship unconditionally, regardless of their political party. We are patriotically proud of our freedom. We have access to just about any book that has ever been on a "banned" list, and generally maintain a belief of superiority over other countries, such as China, due to their censorship. …Censorship6 min readCensorship6 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Feb 27, 201910 Early Indicators of a Toxic WorkplaceThe importance of culture has been becoming more evident as more and more workplaces strive to redefine what it means to work and be happy. Books like Delivering Happiness and The Culture Code are becoming required reading for early-stage startups to unicorns like AirBnB. Bottom line: a good culture is…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Oct 16, 2018How Much Time Should You Invest In Training?An analytical approach to training, discipline, and automation. — “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.” - Not actually Abraham Lincoln This quote has almost become cliché but I constantly see that, by and large, its message is being ignored. I am laying out a framework to…Productivity4 min readProductivity4 min read
Published inHackerNoon.com·Sep 24, 2018How North Star Metrics Can Lead You SouthWhat is a North Start Metric (NSM)? Let’s start with a definition: The North Star Metric is the single metric that best captures the core value that your product delivers to customers. - What is a North Star Metric It serves to unify a company or department to produce a single result that everyone can concentrate on. North Star Metrics for growth …Startup9 min readStartup9 min read
Published inITNEXT·Sep 17, 2018How to Write a Bug Reporttl;dr: skip to the bottom to see the template. Perhaps the most generic title I’ve ever written. It sounds like it’s straight out of a 1,000+ page 80’s textbook on “Testing Duties in Middle Management”. The problem is that I frequently run into terrible bug reports. Googling brought about some…Software Testing8 min readSoftware Testing8 min read
Published inITNEXT·Sep 10, 2018Debugging 101: Locating The ProblemI was recently observing a couple programmers attempt to fix a bug and watched (with considerable tension) the painstaking stabs in the dark as they tweaked and changed different lines of code. I instantly knew what I would do, and it is much more similar to a binary search (see…Debugging6 min readDebugging6 min read
