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How do we learn? For most things, a pretty simple plan works: do something and evaluate the results. Make some changes to what you do, and see how the results change. If your results get better, do more of the thing. If your results get worse, go the other way.
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As history will remember, 2020 was a strange year, to say the least. While it might seem that, with everyone more or less staying home and shutting out social interaction, it would have been a prime time to build new skills and hone old skills—this was not the case.
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What a long, strange year 2020 has been. It’s too early to write any kind of meaningful retrospective, but I think it’s fair to say this has been a challenging year for everyone—and it’s not over yet. This has not been a productive year, for most
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It’s been a rough few months for all of us—everyone, all over the whole world. I want to share a few thoughts on the coronavirus epidemic, politics, and what this reveals about human thinking. For future reference, this is being written in late May 2020, and the U.
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Just in case you missed them, I dropped two new podcast episodes this week! The first, an introduction to the second season of the podcast, and some general comments on current markets is available here here. The second is a re-issue of an old MarketLife podcast that I thought was
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This might be a little off-topic, but I think it’s actually very on-topic. With most of my readers probably working from home due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, we are all very focused on sanitizing everything possible. Commercial sprays are expensive, and, well… you might run out. I want
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I want to share some things Tom and I have been working on over the past year, and tell you about some exciting things that will be coming this year. First, we’ve evolved MarketLife to the next stage in a pretty big way. The first thing you’ll notice
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I started this blog post on the day with the longest night of the year, and it’s taken a bit longer to get finished than I expected! So, here’s a late happy New Year post. Yes, New Year’s Resolutions are absurd, but there’s something else going
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As we slowly move out of summer and into the end of the year, you’ve probably noticed my blog has picked up in activity. I want to share some things we’ve been working on behind the scenes, and tell you what you can expect over the coming year.
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There are many tools out there that attempt to quantify the emotional extremes of the market. When we created one, we had one goal: we wanted it to have an actual edge. This meant carefully researching the inputs that would go into the measure, and limiting it to factors which
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I am a big fan of data visualizations that help me see what is going on in world markets. Over the years, I've created many versions of these, but the ones I have now are finely crafted tools that strike a great balance between depth and breadth. Early