The following is a recap of my tribute to Roneet delivered at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, May 2019
May 7, 2019, would have been my 30th anniversary with Roneet. We met towards the tail end of her senior year at UCLA.
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Get A Grip
33 days after my heart surgery I resumed playing tennis. Of course, it was not at the same level or intensity as it was prior to my surgery but it was great to get back on the court nonetheless.
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Basketball Masters and The Infinite Game
I’ve written many times over the years regarding my interest in the subject of mastery. I have great admiration for people who go deep into their craft and come to know it so well that they continuously find an edge to enable them to be successful over the long term and be able to persevere through the inevitable adversities that life throws our way.
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How to Identify and Leverage Your Munger Moment
This week I revisit one of my favorite concepts discussed in the book: The Munger Moment. The video discusses what I mean by this. For those of you who either prefer to read about the concept or have the video amplified by the key points, here you go.
What is a Munger Moment
- ‘Munger Moments’ are those rare opportunities when the odds align strongly in our favor and all we need are the resources and courage to take advantage of them.
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Elon Musk and The Real Them
Hiring people can definitely be a crapshoot. After all, people are putting on their best game faces when they are being interviewed because the stakes can be quite high since it involves people’s livelihoods and careers. With such large stakes many people will unsurprisingly go to great lengths to prepare for interviews and,
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GamePop and the Lollapalooza Effect
Here is GameStop’s stock price chart for one month. Setting aside that it was up 62% for the time and day when I captured this screenshot, it’s up over six times during this one month period. And at its peak, it was up about 10 times!
Now let’s look at a three-month view and the meteoric rise can be put in more perspective.
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Don't Be a Useful Idiot!
Warning: This post will probably upset just about everybody.
The election of 1800 was a bitterly contested one in which Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams. According to History.com,
Though Jefferson and his running mate,
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Lessons from King Lear with a Little Kurt Vonnegut Thrown In
“I am a man more sinned against than sinning”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear
Last week’s events made me think about how important it is to understand people’s personality profiles if you are going to be relying on them.
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March of Folly and the Federal Reserve
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Gary Carmell
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In The March of Folly author Barbara Tuchman defines folly as acts that are clearly contrary to the self-interest of the organization or group pursuing them. It would seem like the Fed would fall into this definition. Its mandate is full employment and price stability while also providing prudent financial oversight to minimize the risks of financial contagion (I added the third one).
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A Grateful Journey (and Sadness for the Covid Generation)
With the Thanksgiving holiday last week, I thought it would be appropriate to focus this week’s blog post on something I am deeply grateful for. My source of gratitude was coincidentally triggered when listening to a podcast about the Grateful Dead. Definitely, the right band when thinking about gratitude.
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