How a few high-impact successes drive up overall average outcomes in investing, business, and creative projects. How to harness positive skewness using a barbell approach. Learn when to mitigate risks and when to embrace them. Topics covered include: Show Notes Long-Term Shareholder Returns: Evidence from 64,000 Global Stocks by Hendrik Bessembinder, Te-Feng Chen, Goeun Choi, K.C. John Wei—SSRN Long-Horizon Stock Returns Are Positively Skewed by Adam Farago and Erik … [Read more...]
408: Is Success Due to Hard Work, Talent, or Luck?
How to survive in a world where luck and randomness play a pivotal role. Topics covered include: Show Notes Redacted messages to and from Elon Musk—Delaware’s Court of Chancery Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius by Charlie Warzel—The Atlantic Talent Versus Luck: The Role of Randomness In Success and Failure by Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda Susan Alexandra Welcome to Susan Alexandra’s Dream World by Sophia … [Read more...]
323: The Economy Is Not A Machine
How the drive for efficiency leads to greater wealth concentration and threatens capitalism. What can be done about it? Topics covered include: Why income growth has slowed for the middle classWhy the economy now follows a power-law distribution rather than a normal distribution, leading to skewed outcomesWhy the economy is a complex adaptive system rather than a machineHow the type of job you have and the company you work for affects your incomeWhy greater efficiency increases the risk … [Read more...]
