“I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor.” – Warren Buffett
“Most of the time you’re going to spend as a value investor is really to be an academic, to be a researcher, to be a journalist actually, to basically be have insatiable curiosity to really, and try to figure out how just about everything works.” – Li Lu
Be good at writing, be a good investigator, and be good at tech—Warren Buffett meets Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant.
Next:
- 5-1b1b1a Power-law curiosity - be professionally curious about a few topics and idly curious about many more
- 5-1b1b2 Flow to the most interesting, because the Fun Criterion doesn’t distinguish what’s fun via categories. Fun just means fun.
Related:
- 3-1a The reality doesn’t have categories, there are only problems to be solved. Be problem-project-oriented. ‘Academic subjects’ are mere social constructs.
- 3-1a3 Multidisciplinary thinking is the most realistic thinking
- 4-2c 周辺的関心の方が中心的関心よりも活発に働く。脱線話の方が記憶に残る。
- 5-1b1b2b Don’t try to be the best. Be the only.
- QUE5 - What’s your company’s billion-dollar function