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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. Media Madness : Do we really need 24/7 financial advice for our investments we wont draw on for decades? Bad Numbers : 4.

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Wednesday links: narrative fallacies

Abnormal Returns

Strategy On the strange math of stock returns. sherwood.news) The number of existing homes for sales keeps rising. newsletter.abnormalreturns.com) Mixed media Why Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX. fortunesandfrictions.com) Betting on smart beta has generally not worked out well for investors. platformer.news)

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TikTokInvestors

The Big Picture

At least one person1 has noticed the risks to young consumers of social media: Since August 2020, @TikTokInvestors has been curating the most outrageous money-losing and dangerous videos culled from the “financial experts” at TikTok. 2 Sure, you can claim mainstream media is bad, but social media is worse.

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Why Hasn’t the California Globe Retracted Its Story?

The Big Picture

The Globe, amazingly, cannot even sum a column of five small numbers. Newsom and his staff including Brandon, are picking numbers and months to serve Newsom’s own false narrative. It was the Journal, then Hoover, then CABIA, that did all of the cherry-picking, and used a bad set of numbers to do it. That’s not even math.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( History by numbers : Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns? The Atlantic ). •

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Saturday links: communities coming together

Abnormal Returns

bakadesuyo.com) Numbers are persuasive up to a point. npr.org) The math on farmed fish doesn't work. newsletter.abnormalreturns.com) Mixed media Redbox went bankrupt. (wired.com) What happens when a connected device is no longer supported. arstechnica.com) In praise of taking photos without the help of AI. theatlantic.com)

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Saturday links: hospitality and sophistication

Abnormal Returns

(apnews.com) Travel There is a growing number of hotel brands. popsci.com) Science Google DeepMind solved a previously unsolvable math problem. slate.com) Chronic fatigue A better estimate of the number of people with chronic fatigue syndrome in the U.S. sportico.com) Entertainment Social media is devouring stand up comedy.

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