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Time-Tested Principles From A to Z (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, I started reading The Intelligent Investor, as I wanted to build knowledge of stock picking and value investing.While the book does cover these aspects, it talks more about investor psychology than investment techniques.One line in particular made me stop and think:“With every new wave of optimism or pessimism, we are ready to abandon history and time-tested principles, but we cling tenaciously and unquestioningly to our prejudices.”Here, the author isn’t describing bad investor
Be the Source of What You Think You Need (opens the original)
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When I walk to work in the morning, I usually spot one or two homeless people asking for spare change or food.Occasionally, I give them some money when I happen to have enough cash on me. Once, I gave someone a loaf of bread.“If only I were a multi-millionaire, I would donate a million to charity,” I would think.Except, I don’t really know that for sure. The fraction of wealth that a person would part with to help those less fortunate depends on many factors.Being generous with your time is some
Do You Leave Things Better Than You Found Them? (opens the original)
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You walk into your local supermarket to buy some milk and bread.As you walk up to the bread aisle, you notice two loaves of bread on the floor. You shrug, grab the loaf you want off the aisle and make your way to the milk aisle. There, you pick up a milk bottle, go to the checkout, pay, and go home.You never give a thought to those two loaves on the floor.Is this you?Or are you the one who would have picked up those loaves and placed them on the shelf?Or are you the one who not only placed those
Progressive Disclosure - In Humans and AI (opens the original)
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No one needs to know everything all the time.Sometimes the timing isn’t right, and the context isn’t there. Handing someone a piece of information before they’re ready for it doesn’t help.Progressive disclosure is a principle that shows up in human behaviour, in the difficult conversations we have with people we care about, and, increasingly, in the way AI is used. And when you see how these things connect, it changes how you think about all of them.When AI agents are given access to too many to
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