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Peter Lynch argued that investors tend to overvalue diversification
Source: C-Span 2
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📈 The market says AI is the future… but Oracle’s stock tells a different story.
Oracle has lost 63% of its value from the peak, wiping out nearly $500 billion in market cap.
Yet the company isn’t slowing down.
It’s spending $55 billion every year building AI data centers, the infrastructure powering the next wave of models and AI applications.
To make that happen, Oracle has taken on $167 billion in debt, almost double what it owed just two years ago.
This isn’t a small experiment. It’s one of the biggest corporate bets on AI infrastructure ever made.
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Charlie Munger's favorite investing metric?
Return on invested capital.
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"When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been happening with drugs?"
— Milton Friedman
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Descartes invented the method in 1637. Elon rediscovered it in Silicon Valley.
The results are comparable.
1. Most people reason by analogy. They look at what exists, what the consensus says is possible, and iterate from there. The result is usually just a better version of the same thing – 10% ahead of the field, moving in the same direction as everyone else. This is how industries calcify. This is how the car industry looked at the electric vehicle in 2003 and said: not possible.
2. Descartes’ method was different. Strip everything back to what cannot be doubted. Discard inherited assumptions. Rebuild from the foundations. The method requires not genius but a specific intellectual courage: the willingness to look idiotic while the reconstruction is underway.
3. Elon asked a simple question: why does a laptop battery last 10 hours while an electric car barely covers 100 kilometers? Same physical problem. Different chemistry. The entire impossibility of the electric car was a chemistry choice, not a physical law. First principles, not analogy, revealed this in an afternoon. The consensus was wrong because the consensus had never bothered to check.
4. First principles give you the direction, not the solution. Then come the iterations – the prototypes that fail, the cash burned, the problems nobody had solved because nobody had tried. The Cartesian method is not a shortcut. It is a compass. The road is still the road.
5. Most people stop at the first prototype that fails. The ego interprets failure as refutation. First principles reasoning makes failure informational rather than existential. The battery exploded. Interesting. Why? Fix it. Continue.
6. Descartes sat alone in a heated room in Bavaria and doubted everything until he found what he couldn’t doubt. Three hundred and seventy years later, an engineer in California asked why a car battery couldn’t work like a laptop battery. The method is identical. It requires no special intelligence – only the removal of ego, and the willingness to follow the reasoning wherever it leads, including to conclusions that make you look like a fool for the three to five years before they make you look like a genius.
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He broke down the entire banking system in seconds
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WARREN BUFFETT 1962 AMAZING INTERVIEW
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Milton Friedman:
“We want a society of variety and diversity. We want a society in which people can celebrate their ethnic backgrounds.
But that’s a very different thing from a society which somehow takes ethnic characteristics as a criterion for preference or lack of preference, or a society which moves away from the doctrine of color-blindness to the doctrine of so-called ‘affirmative action.’”
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Peter Thiel shares his POV of what it was like when Elon musk crashed his McLaren and became an “unidentified flying object over Sand Hill Road”:
“Elon’s first comment to me was, ‘Wow Peter, that was really intense.’”
“He had taken it up to 180mph on I-280 which was kinda fast.”
“We got on Sand Hill Road, a 35mph zone.”
“The car was accelerated from 45mph to 85mph, the lanes were changed, there was enough torque that Elon lost control, the car skidded, we hit the embankment rotated up.”
“It was about 4-6 feet of air space between the car and the road.”
“Like an unidentified flying object over Sand Hill Road.”
“The first woman who stopped said she didn’t really want to stop because she didn’t want to deal with dead people. It looked that bad.”
“Elon said, ‘I read all these stories about people who made lots of money, got sports cars, and crashed them, but I knew that would never happen to me, so I had no insurance.’”
“We hitchhiked the rest of the way to the meeting.”
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Elon Musk jokes that the truth about how the powerful build wealth goes far beyond insider trading
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience (PowerfulJRE)
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The hedge fund's entire hiring philosophy in one sentence:
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a16z & Y Combinator share their million-dollar AI startup ideas for 2026.
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Warren Buffett's Life Advice
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A socialist should explain what they think Elon Musk did with the other $700 billion he had supposedly stolen from the workers just 5 weeks ago.
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When asked how becoming wealthy affected his life, Buffett said the greatest benefit wasn't luxury or status, but freedom
Source: Warren Buffett Q&A with Wharton MBA students
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Civilizations indeed die from suicide
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“Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can create money.”
— Milton Friedman
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Bill Ackman believes Meta is significantly undervalued, arguing the market is overlooking its long-term potential
Source: VALUEx BRK 2026
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"Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see."
— Ayn Rand
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⚠️𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: FIFA will earn over $13b from the 2026 World Cup cycle.
The projected revenue was $11b, which has already been surpassed, making it the most lucrative tournament in football history.
Revenue from the 2022 World Cup reported at $7.5b, but the revenue massively increased this year due to the higher number of teams and high ticket prices.
FIFA are studying further increasing the number of teams in the 2030 World Cup, from 48 to 64, to increase revenue even more.
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Peter Thiel on why you should never get hung up on failure:
“It’s not like you only get one chance in this life. You get many chances, so long as you keep trying.”
“When we started PayPal, the initial product was an infrared beaming device on PalmPilots for sending money.”
“It was voted one of the ten worst business ideas in 1999, a year where there were many bad ideas in technology.”
“If you get hung up on failure and think you don’t have another chance, that’s when you really don’t.”
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“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.” - Warren Buffett
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🌍 Someone just open-sourced a Palantir-style global intelligence platform for free.
Palantir charges governments millions of dollars for software that tracks world events in real time.
Now, a developer named Elie has built an open-source alternative called World Monitor and released it on GitHub.
Here’s what it does:
A live 3D globe streaming data from 500+ news sources across 15 categories, with every update automatically summarized by AI.
It tracks everything from:
🪖 Military activity
💰 Economic shocks
🌪️ Natural disasters
💻 Cyber incidents
✈️ Flight traffic
🚢 Global shipping routes
You can also stack 56 interactive map layers to visualize different datasets at once. The platform calculates a real-time geopolitical stress index for 31 countries, updating as major events unfold.
It also monitors 29 global stock exchanges, commodities, and cryptocurrency markets from a single dashboard. It runs local AI with Ollama, meaning you don’t need an API key or cloud service to use its AI features.
World Monitor is available as a native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, supports 25 languages, and is designed to work almost immediately after installation.
Source.
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David Paul argues that for 95% of traders, the problem isn't their strategy
Source: London Investor
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8 Steps to build a portfolio from scratch
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Jim Rogers on why sometimes the smartest move is doing nothing
Source: Market Wizards
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