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I think access, as in having contacts of influential individuals or a good distribution network, is upstream of any other component with regards to building wealth and/or driving i…

Sometimes, one can hedge their risky bets by placing vicarious expectations on a close counterparty with the hopes that the latter may succeed when one fails on the arena of compet…

> An old Chinese folk wisdom holds, "Of all the thirty-six ways to get out of trouble, the best way is-leave." I read this yesterday in *The Sovereign Individual*, a book I’ve bee…

The thought of *what would xyz think of my work?* while doing the work ruins much of the atmosphere needed to create. There's this dilemma around the intersection of doing work f…

Principled people can sometimes be very predictable, partly because they're emotionally rational about following their principles no matter the cost. If it makes sense, this "emot…

Sometimes, thinking ahead can be counterproductive, as one is trying to create a rather fixed mental framework for a future that's not necessarily within one's control. I'm learn…

Chasing a moving target gets trickier when the target also keeps changing its form. I've heard many times that the act of chasing itself is counterproductive, mainly because the m…

It's actually a good headstart to wake up earlier than the majority, get most of the basic work done before the noise of the world's expectations and obligations begins and then ca…

I'm trying to wrap my head around the intersection of business and investing. I think investors more or less invest in businesses, they may not be an operator but having some bas…

Getting what you want, after having wanted it with all your heart, all your strength, and for so many months, doesn’t always bring an explosion of joy where you leap into the air w…

The more information we get exposed to, the more likely we are to question the very foundations upon which we've built our lives. There's an unsettling effect with consuming inform…

There’s this folklore story about not killing game in the forest after chasing it for a few hours because the animal has released stress hormones into its body making it unfit for …

At least for me, there always seems so much is left to be done no matter how far you've come already. I don't know why the journey ahead is held in higher regard than the journey s…

Counterintuitive strategy. Instead of focusing on an explicit goal based on achieving a specific outcome, one flips the focus into an implicit goal based on establishing a specific…

It isn't always clear to me that an abundance mindset can be practical in a world that seems objectively scarce. I totally get the part where artificial scarcity is created by wa…

At this point in time, my trading experience mostly revolves around observing chart interpretations of those actually making trades in this unforgiving yet still opportunity-rich m…

Part of the reasons I'm not too attached on the idea of self-sovereignty and its realization is as an end state in and of itself is because I think there's a missing element of con…

As a matter of consequence, entrenched beliefs can often act as barriers to understanding, through cognitive dissonance which then creates a "holy grail" of misunderstanding that i…

Why does arranging thoughts in a coherent way seem harder than just producing thoughts? Why don't our produced thoughts come pre-packaged in a coherent manner, ready for consumptio…

What's that saying again about getting rich through taking a lot of risk with little money and staying rich by taking little risk with a lot of money? The more I examine this stat…