Essays

Mauboussin on Making Better Comparisons

Michael Mauboussin Guide to Making Better Comparisons (Link) Comparing via analogies (steps and common mistakes) Select the source for analogy…

6 years ago

Matt Levine on shareholder value

Matt Levine discusses: Traditional and progressive views of the role of corporations How a narrow desire to raise shareholder value…

6 years ago

How much to wager when you have edge? (Hint: median not mean outcomes!)

Link: Rational Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Observed Betting Patterns on a Biased Coin Optimal bet size as a fraction of bankroll…

6 years ago

Refactored “When the Culture War Comes for the Kids”

This is a 10:1 compression and refactoring of George Packer's When the Culture War Comes for the Kids There is…

7 years ago

Tradeoffs in tax policy

Excerpts from Howard Mark's memo: It's All Very Taxing The concept of "paying a fair share" is nebulous at best.…

7 years ago

Notes on OSAM’s Factors from Scratch

http://osam.com/Commentary/factors-from-scratch How does the 'value' factor generate excess return? Method for decomposing the return into earnings growth and multiple expansion Limit…

7 years ago

Notes on Philosophical Economics: Predicting equity returns from supply/demand not valuation

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-greatest-predictor-of-future-stock-market-returns/ Premise If there is too much supply of a given asset relative to the amount that investors want to…

7 years ago

Excerpts from “Breaking Smart”

https://breakingsmart.com/en/season-1/ Original article by Venkat Rao. Summary An in-depth exploration of Andreesen's "Software is eating the world". Peak centralization is…

7 years ago