Ben Wright

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Charlie Munger helped change Warren Buffett’s entire investment approach. Buffett had been trained to look for deeply discounted companies. Munger pushed him towards exceptional businesses that could compound for decades. That meant focusing on competitive advantages, pricing power, management quality and patience. Munger also obsessed over avoiding the behaviours that destroy investors: leverage, envy, impatience and chasing whatever currently feels exciting. His greatest contribution wasn’t one stock pick. It was a better operating system for making decisions and avoiding permanent mistakes.

There’s literally billions of dollars in institutional algo black boxes selling because huang got honey potted. Do they teach that in Harvard 200k finance degrees?

The Truth About Gamblers Ruin 👀

"Sex and sleep are the only two things that can make a man forget his goals. Control them, and you can conquer the world." ~Alexander the Great

Stan Druckenmiller’s most interesting decision may not have been a trade. It may have been knowing when to stop managing outside money. He founded Duquesne Capital in 1981, later worked with George Soros and built a reputation as one of the strongest macro investors of his generation. Then, in 2010, he closed Duquesne to external investors. That decision matters because success creates its own pressure. Once someone is known as a great investor, every difficult period becomes a test of the reputation they have built. The temptation is to force trades, take more risk and protect the image instead of the process. Druckenmiller stepped away before that pressure dictated how he invested. Most market careers aren’t ended by one ordinary loss. They end when ego, leverage or outside expectations turn a manageable mistake into a fatal one. Longevity is not just about finding winning trades. It is about protecting your decision-making well enough to survive the moments when you are wrong.

You don’t need to watch this to know why sanctions aren’t working…

The History of Charting

Investing in SoftBank has often meant investing in Masayoshi Son’s view of the future. Son founded the company in 1981, but over time it became far more than a traditional operating business. It became a vehicle for large, concentrated bets on where technology was heading next. That approach can produce extraordinary outcomes when the timing and thesis are right. It can also create painful losses when conviction runs ahead of reality. That is the trade-off with person-led capital allocation. You are not only backing someone’s intelligence and ambition. You are also accepting their blind spots, risk tolerance and willingness to act years before the outcome becomes clear. Being early sounds attractive after the bet works. While you are living through it, being early can look exactly like being wrong. So the useful question is not simply whether a visionary investor is smart. It is whether you understand the volatility, concentration and uncertainty that come with following their judgement.

what kind of monetary policy do you call this

When AI agents built an economy

Why Peter Lynch was one of the greatest investors of all time.

$42 billion tried to leave Silicon Valley Bank in a single day. The bank had grown alongside the technology boom, holding large deposits from startups and venture funds. More than 90% of those deposits were uninsured. SVB invested much of that money in long-term government bonds. They appeared safe when interest rates were close to zero, but their market value fell sharply as rates rose. Then the bank sold part of its portfolio at a loss and announced it needed fresh capital. Customers saw the same warning at the same time. Messages spread through founder and investor networks. Withdrawals could be made instantly. The bank could not turn its assets into cash quickly enough to keep up. Regulators closed it the next morning.

Leaders of Innovation: Taiwan - Chips England - Financial services US - Financial services and AI North Korea - Draining Centralised Exchanges I feel like we live in a simulation. An entire government state propped up by draining wallets 😂

Hyperreality - allowing content to completely replace or warp your perception of physical reality. TikTokers trying to drive any content these days 😂 Nan dies? - film Lose your job? - film Leverage to the tits and make your kids homeless? - film

The aura of Powell is just undefeated This is like watching gladiator 2

The Godfather of Quant: Jim Simons

Ray Dalio started Bridgewater from a two-bedroom apartment in 1975. What he built wasn’t based on one brilliant market prediction. It was based on the belief that decisions could be turned into repeatable systems. Dalio viewed the economy as a machine. If you could understand the cause-and-effect relationships inside it, you could write down rules, test them against reality and improve them when they failed. That approach eventually shaped Bridgewater’s wider culture of principles, transparency and structured disagreement. You don’t have to agree with every part of that culture to see the value in the underlying idea. A real framework forces you to decide what evidence would change your mind before stress and emotion take over. That matters because markets make everyone feel intelligent when conditions are easy. The real test comes when prices move against you. Opinions can change with the mood of the day. A process gives you something to examine, challenge and improve.

Wasn't expecting to read this today. Lab grown gold. Of course this is going to be years and years and years off becoming economically viable. But it's really a case study in the fragility of physical scarcity. The Gulf's economy ran on pearl diving until the Japanese started farming them. Within years the industry collapsed and the economy was devastated. To this day it's still nowhere near where it was. De Beers mined and controlled 90% of the world's diamonds. They are also credited with popularising "diamonds are forever" and the idea of the diamond ring itself being a sign of a man's love. They controlled so much of the supply that they had to artificially hold it back to protect prices. Since then De Beers has been on a race to the bottom as that scarcity continues to erode. Now we have gold. Something the US dollar used to be pegged against. A store of wealth that has held for centuries. Now potentially, in probably many many years to come, facing the same fate. It's going to take a long time, but if it happens, we are in for a hell of a ride. So if nearly every precious commodity is eventually farmable, what is left? Maybe digital scarcity. If Bitcoin is unaffected by quantum computing, then it will be a very interesting next 100 years for scarce assets and how we store value.