Yesterday, Jeff Bezos put out his annual letter to shareholders, which you can read here. Jeff shared his thoughts on what makes Amazon so successful: high standards. He acknowledges that a combination of many things makes Amazon what it is, but strongly believes...
What are the odds that you'll win the lottery, be in an automobile accident, make market beating investments, or get a divorce? We're all capable of making educated guesses regarding the probability of these events, but how likely would we be to update our predictions...
What's your strongest belief about investing? Did you come to that conclusion independently or do you believe it because other people do too? Belief formation is a fascinating topic covered extensively in Yuval Noah Harari's, "Sapiens". So much of the world we know...
Why would anybody pay someone to evaluate their financial situation and not be truthful with that person? It seems like a waste of time, money and effort. Yet, we're all guilty of doing this exact thing! We all go to various professionals for help several times a...
Last week, I read about a Netflix algorithm update that's changing the way they serve program images to customers. In addition to curating your Netflix feed based on what you've previously watched, Netflix will now be showing unique program images that are also based...
My dad used to tell me before my baseball games, "ya know Case, you play baseball against yourself". I didn't really get it at first. But the more he said it and explained it to me, the more I understood. You play baseball to the best of your abilities. If you do...
On a recent episode of Hidden Brain, host Shankar Vedantam discusses a book by Alison Gopnik called The Gardener and the Carpenter. Alison uses an analogy between gardeners and carpenters to explain modern approaches to parenting. To summarize: Carpenters have the...
To conform is human. During the Stone Age, our ancestors learned to fit in with their tribe. If they didn’t adopt the tribal culture, they were banished. Being banished was essentially a death sentence, so humans learned that fitting in was a pretty solid survival...
You can't take a swim without getting wet. I recently finished reading Professor Scott Galloway's, The Four. If a deep dive into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google sounds intriguing to you, definitely check the book out. I'm actually going to relate a passage from...
Last Friday, Netflix released the highly anticipated Stranger Things 2. In the show a group of middle schoolers start to investigate the disappearance of one of their friends, Will Byers. Their investigation leads to the discovery of some dark secrets. Most...
