TED 2017: My 5 Big Takeaways

I just got back from TED 2017. It was a fire-hydrant of ideas. Here are the big takeaways for me:

With Whom would I Invest? Part I

If I was not investing professionally myself, who would I hire to invest for me?

10 Life Lessons from a Survivor of Cardiac Arrest

TOP 10 LESSONS FROM MY ABORTED SUDDEN DEATH EXPERIENCE

In August, Jeffrey Feig, a 50-year-old financial executive in Manhattan and father of three young sons…

Lunch With Warren Buffett Changed My Life

Guy Spier and a friend paid $650,100 to have lunch with Warren Buffett. Thankfully, it…

I learned about cycling from that:

the dubious blessings of a split shoulder.

Zero Management Fee, Deep Learning, Cardiac Arrest, Dodie Clark, Brexit, Strava, FitBit

Singularity, Slack, Renewables, Peterson Capital, Pabrai, Neuralink, Metalab, Mad Minute, Grammofy, Google, Dershowitz and Clegg

Investing

Renewables

Zero Management Fees

As I wrote in my book, my fund did not start out with zero management fees. But my meeting with Mohnish Pabrai, and our subsequent lunch with Warren Buffett convinced me that I had to move my fund to zero management fees — on in which I only make money after I have outperformed for our…

Five Ways to Handle Adversity.

Adversity is when the rubber hits the road. It’s not how we behave in the good times that will determine how successful we are in life, but how we act in the bad times.

Here are some resources that have helped me to deal with adversity.

Doomsday Dashboard. Ode to Vice. Narrative Economics. The Art of the Good Life. The Wisdom of Being Affable.