I just read Strengthen Your Business by Robert Bethel, here are some notes on it. It’s overall good information, but not particularly profound. It reminds me of some lessons common to Extreme Ownership and Perennial Seller. It’s far lighter than the dense philosophy I usually read, so I was able…

“Some books cannot be summarized (real literature, poetry); some can be compressed to about 10 pages; the majority to zero pages.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes We can learn many important lessons from classic literature. They are the most valuable signals which survived after stressors filtered out the noisy data over time. Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa and The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas are two of the longest and most influential novels I have read…

Over the years, I’ve tried a lot of morning routines, but none of them seemed to stick. I’ve realized that the main reason was that they were too time consuming and complicated. I also like new experiences and dislike habits in general. …

The truth is something that burns, it burns off deadwood and people don’t like having their deadwood burnt off often because they’re 95% deadwood. — Jordan Peterson This year, I don’t have a New Year’s Resolution. As the new year approaches, people are often filled with regret and say, “I’m…

The Great Samurai Miyamoto Musashi says that the way of strategy or martial arts is for overcoming men. The first man you must overcome is yourself. Any good soldier, hunter, police officer, or others in similar warrior professions must be able to live a disciplined life, eliminate his own superfluous…

The goal of Mimetic Arbitrage is to understand and capitalize on imitative behaviors and desires. To do so, we link together the investment philosophies of Peter Thiel, Warren Buffett, Nassim Taleb, and my own observations and studies. Peter Thiel is the PayPal Mafia boss, early investor in many successful startups…