by Sean Lloyd | Apr 29, 2020
Ray Dalio is widely considered one of the greatest living investors. He is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, as well as a master educator through How the Economic Machine Works and his latest book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises. What follows are my...
by Sean Lloyd | Apr 16, 2020
Ray Dalio is widely considered one of the greatest living investors. He is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, as well as a master educator through How the Economic Machine Works and his latest book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises. What...
by Sean Lloyd | Sep 9, 2019
Ray Dalio is widely considered one of the greatest living investors. He is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, as well as a master educator through How the Economic Machine Works and his latest book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises. What follows are my...
by Sean Lloyd | Aug 5, 2019
Sir John Glubb (1897-1986) was a British soldier and scholar. He served in World War I and later commanded Jordan’s military from 1938-1956. In his essay, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival, he surveys 3,000 years of history and provides his observations on...
by Sean Lloyd | Jul 21, 2019
Ray Dalio is widely considered one of the greatest living investors. He is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, as well as a master educator through How the Economic Machine Works and his latest book Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises. What follows are my...
by Sean Lloyd | Jul 21, 2019
Joseph Salerno (b. 1950) is an American economist of the Austrian School. In 2010, he wrote Money, Sound and Unsound, where he provides a wide-ranging application of Austrian monetary theory across history. What follows are my notes. chapter 1: two traditions in...
by Sean Lloyd | Jul 18, 2019
Carl Menger (1840 – 1921) was an economist and founder of the Austrian School of Economics. In 1892, he wrote On the Origins of Money, where he argued that money is not created or sanctified by the State, but instead money naturally emerges from the marketplace. What...
by Sean Lloyd | Apr 8, 2019
After dodging the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification for 15 years, I finally hit a contract requiring it. Nearly everyone I know who is a PMP attended a week-long cram session for about $4000. Shortly after, they sat for and passed the exam. Clearly,...
by Sean Lloyd | Mar 28, 2019
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got. ~ Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the...
by Sean Lloyd | Mar 25, 2019
I skim an article about Chinese bamboo. Apparently, once the seed has been sown, you see nothing for about five years, apart from a tiny shoot. All the growth takes place underground, where a complex root system reaching upward and outward is being established. Then,...
by Sean Lloyd | Mar 22, 2019
An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage. ~ Lucy...
by Sean Lloyd | Mar 21, 2019
Back in 2006, I joined Facebook because MySpace sucked. The page was cleaner then. The goal was straight-forward. I could easily find old friends without paying a fee. This was still early days for internet businesses. We were surrounded by free services. Google =...
by Sean Lloyd | Mar 11, 2019
The truth is you know it when you see it. We shroud Truth in complexity. We like to give it shades and assign it attributes like “truthiness.” We argue over it. We declare it. We even claim exclusive knowledge of it. Sometimes, we even spell it with a capital “T.” But...
by Sean Lloyd | Mar 4, 2019
It’s not static. We can’t hold it in our hands for very long. It feels great when we possess it, but it’s wild and free. The truth is that yesterday we all agreed to split the bill. Today, some of us want a discount. This could take a while for us to sort out. In the...
by Sean Lloyd | Mar 1, 2019
Don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Often we give up on pursuing good things because they are not perfect solutions. The problem is, we have to start somewhere and sometimes taking the first step, however imperfect it may be, is the important...
