Noteworthy Nonsense
Notes on Communication, Decision-Making and Business & Investing
Reframing Failure: What Did You Fail at Today?
Sarah Blakely, businesswoman and founder of Spanx, grew up with her father asking her, “What did you fail at today?”
The Psychology of Personal Finance: Meet Diligent, Destitute and Dickey (Part 3)
There are three broad approaches you can take for your personal finances, which in large part is behavioral. And so, I’ve modeled these approaches with three fictional characters.
Thus, meet: Diligent the Rational, Destitute the Emotional and Dickey the Blend
Beating Blackjack: How An Outsider Beat The House
In the late 1950s, Ed Thorp defied conventional wisdom and developed a winning strategy for blackjack that anyone could then use—if it could be stomached.
14 Ways to Become More Successful
“We should just study successful people more. Like how’d they do this?…And there’s a very superficial version of that in the media all the time. But like actually trying to figure out how they did it. To me it’s one of the most interesting topics.”