SnoJohn

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by SnoJohn 1y ago
10048
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by SnoJohn 1y ago
https://niallferguson.substack.com/p/mileis-manmade-miracle
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by SnoJohn 1y ago
https://niallferguson.substack.com/p/mileis-manmade-miracle
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by SnoJohn 1y ago
Good. If I can get there this weekend I can get my last free battery from the battery club.
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by SnoJohn 2y ago
Here are his last two interviews. I hope I can be as insightful at that age. 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lewis-lapham-money-and... 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glcTLgnEEGE
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by SnoJohn 2y ago
His last interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpm2NOF2Zw
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
Books in Charlie Munger's Library: Influence by Robert Cialdini, Einstein by Walter Isaacson, Go East Young Man (memoir of William O. Douglas), Eugene Meyer bio (Father of Kay Graham, Chair of Fed in 30s), Max Planck bio, John Kenneth
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Ray Dalio and the manipulative professional hellscape over which he presided(nytimes.com)
1 points by SnoJohn 3y ago|0 comments
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
LQ was always a labor of love supported by a handful of Lapham's friends and supporters. He was recently still coming into the office everyday at 87 and was actively editing the journal. Lapham dropped out of Cambridge (where his advi
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
Robert Ringer wrote the classic on this type of behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ringer It's called Winning Through Intimidation, and it is a very funny story of how he learned to not get burned in
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
He has been saying so for years. Here he is detailing it with Sam Harris in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9aAYJhQz3A
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
One of the more harrowing accounts of 1918 is the famous short story by John O'Hara called The Doctor's Son, about a teenage boy driving a country doctor around during the 1918 flu. We got off easy: https://archive.or
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
Update: It's Al Capone's vault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s_V...
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23622865
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
Better link: https://archive.is/vfTjc
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/ultimate-g...
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Ultimate Guide to Platforms: Steven Sinofsky(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
1 points by SnoJohn 3y ago|2 comments
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230603063354/https://hardcores...
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
Religious organization of crowds: "The faithful are gathered together at appointed places and times, and through performances which are always the same, they are transported into a mild state of crowd feeling sufficient to impress itse
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
Surprised the author did not mention Louis Auchincloss, who is the obvious template for the excellent Diaz book. Auchincloss was fascinated by what money did to the wealthy class of his time. The Great World and Timothy Colt, The House of
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Focus on repeat founders and you'd skip FTX, Celsius, BlockFi, Bolt and Fast.com(open.spotify.com)
1 points by SnoJohn 3y ago|1 comments
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
Logan Allin - We only invest with repeat founders. This has saved us more money than anything else. It means you passed on FTX, Celsius Network, BlockFi, Bolt, and Fast.com.
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by SnoJohn 3y ago
This is fun to listen to for all its counterintuitive observations like not wanting to meet the founders. But like a lot of angels, it just ends up being a fish story without any real hard numbers or company names. I don't doubt what h
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by SnoJohn 4y ago
Tom Nicholas, an HBS professor, wrote a book about the history of VC (1) which spends the first chapter of the book talking about the whaling industry and how it created the venture structure we know today. Many whaling voyages failed to f
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by SnoJohn 4y ago
This is very cool. Would love to try it on The Rest is History podcast.
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by SnoJohn 4y ago
Sorry to quibble, but these aren't investment memos. They are PR statements announcing an investment. An investment memo is an internal document that lays out a business model, a competitive analysis, a risk assessment, the reasoning
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by SnoJohn 4y ago
I recently learned about the concept of the "Lead Dad" which is when the father is the chief caregiver. There are a handful of groups that try to connect these fathers (1). A big part of their emerging agenda is to get corporatio
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Ask HN: Was there anything innovative about the FTX platform itself?
9 points by SnoJohn 4y ago|7 comments