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Navigating the Capital Cycle: Working Templates for Long-Term Investors and Business Owners
Understanding the behavioural traps that lead to booms and busts
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Why Great Returns Attract Terrible Capital
A parable about market cycles, vulture investors, and the holiday armadillo
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Understanding Retained Earnings, Opportunity Cost and Net Present Value (NPV)
A capital allocation framework
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3 Ways We Fool Ourselves
Why is the reality most acceptable to science one that no small child can be expected to understand?
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Bayes' Theorem and the Changing of Your Beliefs
A model for better rationality, avoiding the Bayesian thinking trap, and a multi-billion-dollar engagement machine
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Welcome to The School of Knowledge
Your 1-stop shop for systems thinking, mental models and frameworks
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Think Better with the New AI-Powered Six Thinking Hats Prompt
Welcome to The School of Knowledge and this week’s paid essay. Each Sunday, I send an essay to help you navigate your personal or professional…
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A Complete Thinking Framework for Better Decisions
Welcome to The School of Knowledge and this week’s free essay. Each Sunday, I send an essay to help you navigate your personal or professional…
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21 Thinking Tools for Making Better Decisions
Interesting concepts, mental models & frameworks
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The Garden Test for Every New Idea
Welcome to The School of Knowledge. Each Sunday, I send an essay to help you navigate your personal or professional transition, from those who have…
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Is "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger" Terrible Advice?
Our founding membership for The School of Knowledge Community will be opening soon. Thank you to those already on the list. If you haven't joined the…
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The Rumsfeld Matrix Explained
A simple, but powerful tool for managing uncertainty
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