Sometimes the biggest mistake you can make in business is being too rational when you’re standing in front of a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Nothing Peedi is saying here is necessarily wrong. Key man risk is real. Building your entire business around one person can be dangerous. But bro, sometimes you’re standing in front of a one-of-one. One in a million. The kind of talent you might never encounter again in your lifetime. And when you recognize that, you have to be willing to make a bet that might look completely irrational to everyone else. Some of the greatest returns you’ll ever get in life come from concentrating your time, energy and resources on the right people and letting that investment compound. In business, friendships, relationships, everything. I understand Peedi's reasoning completely. But there’s a difference between managing risk and recognizing an extraordinary opportunity. Burna Boy was one of those opportunities.

but efficiency is rarely an ally of intimacy.

More often than we admit, the most consequential thing some environments steal from us is our imagination

In the stock market, luck works behind the scenes far more than people think

simultaneously learning "equities, credit, options, currencies, derivatives, crypto & fixed income" creates an " expert problem." investors gain superficial knowledge, taking massive, misunderstood risks that can lead to total ruin (naïve empiricism).