Prospector-77

All 13 episodes of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation are available to watch on archive.org Here's the link archive.org/details/kennet…

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger had a 3rd partner named Rick Guerin. He sold his BRK shares to Warren and Charlie at $40 in 1974 due to his other over leveraged positions. In 2022, I asked Charlie Munger about how was Rick as a person and an investor. His answer:

A question that lives rent free in my head…

.@pmarca: "The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power." "There are so few people who will just like write down the thing. And so we see this at companies all the time, which is, one of the ways you find the up-and-comers at a tech company is just, okay, who wrote down the plan? And, you know, that doesn't mean they came up with everything. And that doesn't mean that they had all the ideas, but they're actually able to organize their thoughts and then actually have the energy and the motivation and the skill to be able to communicate in a written form. That actually stands out." With @david_perell

I’ve watched this scene 1,000x and I think about it every day.

You basically need to be unemployed to keep up with all this AI stuff. @jack feels it too

This 4 hour masterclass of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger will teach you more about investing than a $200,000 MBA from any business school on the planet. Bookmark this & give it 4 hours this weekend, no matter what. It's the most productive thing you can give your weekend.

In 2011, a neuroscientist at MIT named Dr. Li-Huei Tsai made a discovery that should have been on the front page of every newspaper on Earth. She exposed mice with advanced Alzheimer's disease to a flickering light pulsing at exactly 40 Hz — forty flashes per second. Nothing else. No drugs. No surgery. Just light at a specific frequency. Within one hour, the amyloid-beta plaques in their brains — the protein deposits that define Alzheimer's — began to dissolve. Not slow. Not gradually. Within sixty minutes. After seven days of daily 40 Hz exposure, plaque levels dropped by 50%. The mice regained memory function. Their neurons began firing in synchrony again. The brain's immune cells — microglia — activated and started clearing the toxic buildup like a cleaning crew that had been asleep for years. The study was published in Nature. The most prestigious scientific journal on the planet. Peer-reviewed. Replicated. Confirmed. That was 2016. It is now 2026. 40 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's. The pharmaceutical industry generates $13 billion per year from Alzheimer's drugs that do not reverse the disease. Not one of them. They slow it. Maybe. Temporarily. At $26,000 per year per patient. A 40 Hz light costs less than a dollar to produce. Dr. Tsai is still at MIT. Her research continues. Phase III human trials are underway. But you will not see this on the evening news. You will not hear your doctor mention it. You will not find it in any pharmacy. Because a frequency that costs nothing cannot sustain a $13 billion industry. The light is 40 Hz. The frequency is real. The science is published. And 40 million people are still waiting for permission to use it.

This 1-hour MIT lecture by Jim Simons is like getting a masterclass from Kasparov - except the board is financial market. Quant King reveals more about quant trading than most Wall Street players pick up in an entire career. Bookmark it. Watch it. Then read the article below.

This 50-minute lecture by Jeff Bezos will teach you more about business than a 2-year MBA program:

“Part of the secret of a long life that has worked as well as mine is not to expect too much of human nature.” “To have your life full of resentments and hatreds, it's counterproductive. You are punishing yourself and not fixing the world.” - Charlie Munger. 2019

If I could give you one success life hack. And trust me. I literally have a hyperbaric healing chamber in my house. I take life hacks seriously. If I could give you one tho. It'd be this. Grab a bunch of epic fantasy books as thick as your head. Replace all your TV and social media time reading them. Your brain will slowly start to work again. The focus from reading the thick ass wordy books will slowly put it back together. Sanderson. Abercrombie. Gaimman. Pierce Brown. Great places to start. Replacing this as your main time wasting hobby will give you absolutely crazy returns when it comes to actually making money. The focus you gain will make you lethal.

Naval Ravikant tells his favorite story about Elon Musk:

Just as you travel so that you can miss your home, you socialize so that you can miss your self.

Charlie Munger: “Everybody has some bad [trades]…It happens…But just do not live your life in such a fashion that a bad day can kill you.”

脳みそは案外だまされやすいから、毎日ひとりで「わたしは性格がよくて頑張り屋でカラダもメンタルも健康な人間だ」とか呟いていればなぜか本当にそれっぽい人生にかわっていきます。人は自己暗示した通りの人物になるので

My outlook on money has always borrowed from Buddhism. Desire is suffering. The less you want, the better off you feel. If you can take a walk in the sun, and really enjoy it, what does that cost.

Sold two of my new build pool cabins in the last two weeks. Same neighborhood, same floor plan. One sold for $1,125,000. The one in this video sold for $1,350,000. Nearly a $250K difference. What made the difference? Your input from a post I made in late 2024.

Charlie Munger on working with Warren Buffett. "We never have an unpleasant disagreement. Occasionally, we start with the same facts and have slightly different views — and we solve our problem in those occasions by doing it his way." 🤣 "Some people say to me, 'How can you be so overbearing and domineering and unpleasant as you are, Charlie, and be in a subordinate position when you're dealing with Warren?' And I say, 'Well, Warren is not a normal human being.'"

If you watch one video about wealth, make it this one: Ray Dalio teaching the science of wealth creation in 39 minutes.