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THE RABBIT HOLE JUMP IN. Menu Skip to content * Books * Essays * Guides * The Latticework * About Featured post LIBRARY BELOW IS THE VISUAL LIBRARY FOR ALL THE BOOKS I HAVE SUMMARIZED TO ACCESS THE SEARCHABLE LIBRARY, CLICK HERE The Rabbit Hole participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising commissions by linking to Amazon. Continue reading → SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books on January 31, 2016 by Blas. ANNOUNCEMENT: NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE 2020 Overview November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 2019 Overview November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 + Yearly Overview November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 June – August 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 + Overview of 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 + Overview of 2015 SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Newsletter Archive on December 12, 2016 by Blas. BUILDING A STORYBRAND: CLARIFY YOUR MESSAGE SO CUSTOMERS WILL LISTEN BY DONALD MILLER Summary 1. Your customer should be the hero of the story, not your brand. This is the secret every phenomenally successful business understands. Key Takeaways 1. The more simple and predictable the communication, the easier it is for the brain to digest. So what’s your message? Can you say it easily? Is it simple, relevant, and repeatable? Can your entire team repeat your company’s message in such a way that it is compelling? Have new hires been given talking points they can use to describe what the company offers and why every potential customer should buy it? 2. Mistakes 1. The first mistake brands make is they fail to focus on the aspects of their offer that will help people survive and thrive. All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual. A story about anything else won’t work to captivate an audience. Nobody’s interested. 2. The second mistake brands make is they cause their customers to burn too many calories in an effort to understand their offer. 3. The key is to make your company’s message about something that helps the customer survive and to do so in such a way that they can understand it without burning too many calories. 4. People don’t buy the best products; they buy the products they can understand the fastest. 5. A critical mistake many organizations make in defining something their customers want is they don’t pare down that desire to a single focus. At the highest level, the most important challenge for business leaders is to define something simple and relevant their customers want and to become known for delivering on that promise. – Conserving time, Building social networks, offering increased productivity, increased revenue, or decreased waste, the desire for meaning. 3. The Story 1. Here is nearly every story you see or hear in a nutshell: A CHARACTER who wants something encounters a PROBLEM before they can get it. At the peak of their despair, a GUIDE steps into their lives, gives them a PLAN, and CALLS THEM TO ACTION. That action helps them avoid FAILURE and ends in a SUCCESS. 2. A customer should be able to answer these questions within five seconds of looking at our website or marketing material: 1. What do you offer? 2. How will it make my life better? 3. What do I need to do to buy it? 4. The 7 Principles 1. The customer is the hero, not your brand 1. Who does our customer want to become? What kind of person do they want to be? What is their aspirational identity? 2. The best way to identify an aspirational identity that our customers may be attracted to is to consider how they want their friends to talk about them. Think about it. When others talk about you, what do you want them to say? How we answer that question reveals who it is we’d like to be. 2. Companies tend to sell solutions to external problems, but customers buy solutions to internal problems (and philosophical ones) 1. Human beings are looking for resolutions to their external, internal, and philosophical problems, and they can achieve this through, among other things, status, self-realization, self-acceptance, and transcendence. If our products can help people achieve these things, we should make this a core aspect of our brand promise. 3. Customers aren’t looking for another hero, they’re looking for a guide 1. The two things a brand must communicate to position themselves as the guide are Empathy and authority 1. Testimonials, statistics, awards, logos 4. Customers trust a guide who has a plan 1. Plans can take many shapes and forms, but all effective plans do one of two things: they either clarify how somebody can do business with us, or they remove the sense of risk somebody might have if they’re considering investing in our products or services. Remember the mantra “If you confuse, you lose”? Not having a plan is a guaranteed way to confuse your customers. 2. A process plan can describe the steps a customer needs to take to buy our product, or the steps the customer needs to take to use our product after they buy it, or a mixture of both. 5. Customers do not take action unless they are challenged to take action 1. What steps do they need to take to do business with you? Spell out those steps, and it’ll be as though you’ve paved a sidewalk through a field. 6. Every human being is trying to avoid a tragic ending 1. Stories live and die on a single question: What’s at stake? If nothing can be gained or lost, nobody cares. 2. Brands that help customers avoid some kind of negativity in life (and let their customers know what that negativity is) engage customers for the same reason good stories captivate an audience: they define what’s at stake. 7. Never assume people understand how your brand can change their lives. Tell them! 5. The 5 things your website should include 1. An offer above the fold – we’ll make you a pro in the kitchen. Join now! 1. The idea here is that customers need to know what’s in it for them right when they read the text. The text should be bold and the statement should be short. It should be easy to read and not buried under buttons and clutter. I recently went to the website for Squarespace and it simply said, “We Help You Make Beautiful Websites.” Perfect. 2. Aspirational identiy, promise to solve a problem, state exactly what you do 2. Obvious Calls to Action 1. There are two main places we want to place a direct call to action. The first is at the top right of our website and the second is in the center of the screen, above the fold. 3. Images of Success 1. We believe images of smiling, happy people who have had a pleasurable experience (closed an open story loop) by engaging your brand should be featured on your website. 4. A Bite-Sized Breakdown of Your Revenue Streams 5. Very Few Words 6. 5 (almost free) things you can do to grow your business 1. Create a one-liner 1. 1. The Character 2. The Problem 3. The Plan 4. The Success 2. The Character: Moms • The Problem: Busy schedules • The Plan: Short, meaningful workouts • The Success: Health and renewed energy • “We provide busy moms with a short, meaningful workout they can use to stay healthy and have renewed energy.” 2. Create a Lead Generator and Collect E-mail Addresses. You need a lead generator. You need a PDF, e-course, video series, webinar, live event, or just about anything else that will allow you to collect e-mail addresses. 1. In order to combat noise in today’s marketplace, your lead generator must do two things: 1. Provide enormous value for your customer 2. Establish you as an authority in your field 2. Downloadable Guide, Online Course or Webinar, Software Demos or a Free Trial, Free Samples, Live Events 3. If you’re going to create a downloadable PDF, keep it to about three pages of content. Stuff as much value as you can into those three pages so your prospects will see you as the “go-to” guide. 4. Make sure you feature your lead generator liberally on your website. I recommend creating a pop-up feature on your site that, after ten seconds or so of the browser arriving, offers your resource to the user. Though people complain about pop-ups, the stats are clear: they readily outperform nearly every other type of Internet advertising. 3. Create an Automated E-Mail Drip Campaign. 1. While there are many kinds of automated e-mail campaigns, the one we recommend starting with is the nurturing campaign. A nurturing campaign is a simple, regular e-mail that offers your subscribers valuable information as it relates to your products or services. Not unlike our lead generator, we want these e-mails to continue positioning us as the guide and to create a bond of trust and reciprocity with potential customers. There will come a time to ask for a sale, but this isn’t the primary goal of a nurturing campaign. A typical nurturing campaign may have an e-mail going out once each week, and the order might look like this: E-mail #1: Nurturing e-mail E-mail #2: Nurturing e-mail E-mail #3: Nurturing e-mail E-mail #4: Sales e-mail with a call to action 2. The Nurturing E-mail A good way to craft each nurturing e-mail is to use an effective formula that offers simple, helpful advice to a customer. I’ve been using this formula for years and customers love it. 1. Talk about a problem. 2. Explain a plan to solve the problem. 3. Describe how life can look for the reader once the problem is solved. 4. Collect and Tell Stories of Transformation. Almost every story is about the transformation of the hero, and when we tell stories about how we’ve helped our customers transform, potential customers immediately understand what your brand can offer them. 1. Here are five questions most likely to generate the best response for a customer testimonial: 1. What was the problem you were having before you discovered our product? 2. What did the frustration feel like as you tried to solve that problem? 3. What was different about our product? 4. Take us to the moment when you realized our product was actually working to solve your problem. 5. Tell us what life looks like now that your problem is solved or being solved. 5. Create a System That Generates Referrals. Once you create a system that funnels potential customers into becoming actual customers, your work is not quite done. The final step is to turn around and invite happy customers to become evangelists for your brand. This will only happen if we create a system that invites and incentivizes them to spread the word. 1. Identify your existing, ideal customers and give them a reason to spread the word (offer a reward, 100% refund for 3 new referrals within a quarter, invite-a-friend coupons) SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books and tagged Business, Donald Miller, Landing Page, Marketing on June 30, 2022 by Blas. THE MEMBERSHIP ECONOMY BY ROBBIE KELLMAN BAXTER Summary 1. This book describes the future, the changes that create a two way relationship between customers (members) and companies. The pendulum has slowly been swinging from ownership to membership as manufacturing has gotten digitized in many cases. The membership economy will have as large of an impact on society as the industrial revolution Key Takeaways 1. Members are in a relationship with an organization in which they are engaged over a long period of time – forever transactions that tie customer to company and vice versa. Done properly, membership is a win/win. It provides predictable revenue, builds a direct relationship, provides an ongoing data stream for companies and allows members to get recognition and value but allows them to quit at anytime if they choose to 2. You must put the customer rather than the product or business at the center. Transaction —> Membership, Ownership —> Access 3. People are wired to want to be in a community they respect and have good standing in 4. Membership based companies don’t always have communities, but they often do. This facilitates loyalty, engagement, and referrals, not to mention can tap into network effects 5. Types of membership based companies – nonprofits, digital subscriptions, online communities, loyalty programs, traditional membership companies (AmEx), small business and consultancies 6. Strategies to successfully align with membership economies 1. Build the right organization – culture and attitude are central to making the customer the core 2. Build a bottoms up acquisition funnel – with a forever transaction, retention is far more important than acquisition. Start at the bottom (with the core value and the ideal members that this would resonate with), and then build up to the top of the funnel 3. Onboard members for success and super users – first few days are key to the member experience and their long-term engagement. Think about first steps, roadmaps, how they should get started. There are 3 key steps – remove friction, add immediate value, reward behavior and actions you want to incentivize. In other words, make it easy, make it personal, get them involved 4. Model pricing for simplicity and flexibility – risk is too much complexity too early in the relationship. Value needs to be clear, transparent, differentiated. Cadence needs to be tested as well and see if monthly, annual, consumption based, etc makes the most sense. Some pricing strategies: subscriptions (with or without tiers, typically 3 tiers), ancillary products (swag, things that will make the membership more valuable), partnership streams, aggregated analytics, advertising, free products and service offerings. Beware discounts, pricing too low or too high at the beginning, 5. Incorporate “free” as a tactic, not a strategy – free is powerful but only if it supports the overall business model. Use it to build awareness and increase size of funnel, build a large community that can aid paying members 6. Use the right technology and track the right data – social / marketing automation, CRM, engagement, community, customer success, loyalty, billing. 7. Retain members but know when to let them go – loyalty is vital but the wrong customer will be very expensive 7. In a membership economy, focus for the CEO shifts from product to relationships , marketing moves to two-way communication, sales are compensated through LTV rather than one off transactions. Every stakeholder is treated as a partner and coordinate to find ways to improve the experience of a member 8. Innovation is a verb, not a noun. A process, not a point 9. Super users do the following: 1. Check in regularly and often 2. Create content that others can access and benefit from 3. Police the community 4. Have a two-way relationship and feel comfortable offering feedback 5. Genuinely care and want to help other members 6. Attract new members 7. Aid in the onboarding of new members 10. How to raise prices – grandfather current members, create a more expensive tier with more benefits. Always be transparent about reasons if you do have to raise on current members 11. Move from free to paid through volume of usage, duration, features, additional services, removal of ads 12. Some ways to increase loyalty among members 1. Make it easy – keep pricing simple, give value immediately, make onboarding great, have a free option, build loyalty through the free trial, remind to cancel before paying if they’re not using 2. Make it personal – periodically give something extra, allow members to connect with you personally, allow members to customize and personalize, experience adapts over time to create increasingly personalized experiences, help create status / milestones 3. Get others involved – connect others, create stickiness by forming relationships between members, engage customers for inspiration on ideas, content, community, 4. The forever transaction is the key to retention in the membership economy – favor relationships over transactions 13. Loyalty programs are incredibly important and effective. Your most loyal customers drive disproportionate profits. Track demographics, preferences, and behaviors 1. Keep it simple, remove friction, make the member feel special, add value, give recognition 14. Some huge advantages that smaller companies have include: Focus, exclusivity, and recognition What I got out of it 1. I listened and immediately re-listened to this book. A ton of practical advice and thoughts on how to build a robust, loyal community SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books and tagged Community, Loyalty, Membership on June 30, 2022 by Blas. THE ART SPIRIT BY ROBERT HENRI Summary 1. ART when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing. When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for a better understanding. Key Takeaways 1. I have little interest in teaching you what I know. I wish to stimulate you to tell me what you know. In my office toward you I am simply trying to improve my own environment. 2. Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. They can help you. All the past can help you. 3. He who has contemplated has met with himself, is in a state to see into the realities beyond the surfaces of his subject. Nature reveals to him, and, seeing and feeling intensely, he paints, and whether he wills it or not each brush stroke is an exact record of such as he was at the exact moment the stroke was made. 4. The value of repeated studies of beginnings of a painting cannot be over-estimated. Those who cannot begin do not finish. 5. There is a time and place for all things, the difficulty is to use them only in their proper time and places. 6. The study of art is the study of the relative value of things. The factors of a work of art cannot be used constructively until their relative values are known. Unstable governments, like unstable works of art, are such as they are because values have not been appreciated. 7. A good painting is a remarkable feat of organization. Every part of it is wonderful in itself because it seems so alive in its share in the making of the unity of the whole, and the whole is so definitely one thing. 8. No vacillating or uncertain interest can produce a unity. 9. We are instinctively blind to what is not relative. We are not cameras. We select. We do this always when we are not painting. 10. All things change according to the state we are in. Nothing is fixed. 11. In drawing, Rembrandt with a cast shadow or just a line or two realized for us the most complete sense of space, that is, background, environment. He could do this because he saw and he had the genius of selection. Look at his simplest drawings and you will see that he was a supreme master in this. 12. If you want to know how to do a thing you must first have a complete desire to do that thing. Then go to kindred spirits—others who have wanted to do that thing—and study their ways and means, learn from their successes and failures and add your quota. Thus you may acquire from the experience of the race. And with this technical knowledge you may go forward, expressing through the play of forms the music that is in you and which is very personal to you. 13. I love the tools made for mechanics. I stop at the windows of hardware stores. If I could only find an excuse to buy many more of them than I have already bought on the mere pretense that I might have use for them! They are so beautiful, so simple and plain and straight to their meaning. There is no “Art” about them, they have not been made beautiful, they are beautiful. 14. Someone has defined a work of art as a “thing beautifully done.” I like it better if we cut away the adverb and preserve the word “done,” and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done. 15. All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed. 16. The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making. 17. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty. 18. No knowledge is so easily found as when it is needed. 19. It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist’s ability to see well into what is before him. 20. A genius is one who can see. The others can often “draw” remarkably well. Their kind of drawing, however, is not very difficult. They can change about. They can make their sight fit the easiest way for their drawing. As their seeing is not particular it does not matter. With the seer it is different. Nothing will do but the most precise statement. He must not only bend technique to his will, but he must invent technique that will especially fit his need. He is not one who floats affably in his culture. He is the blazer of the road for what he has to bring. 21. Those who have the will to create do not care to use old phrases. 22. A great artist is one who says as nearly what he means as his powers of invention allow. An ordinary artist often uses eloquent phrases, phrases of established authority, and if he is skillful it is surprising to see how he can nearly make them fit his ideas—or how he can make the ideas give way to the phrase. 23. I have been trying to make this matter clear—this matter that the whole fun of the thing is in seeing and inventing, trying to refute a common idea that education is a case of collecting and storing, instead of making. It’s not easy. But the matter is mighty well worth considering. 24. If you want to know about people watch their gestures. The tongue is a greater liar than the body. 25. Don’t belong to any school. Don’t tie up to any technique. 26. All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one’s faculties. 27. People say, “It is only a sketch.” It takes the genius of a real artist to make a good sketch—to express the most important things in life 28. The value of a school should be in the meeting of students. The art school should be the life-centre of a city. Ideas should radiate from it. 29. Join no creed, but respect all for the truth that is in them. 30. I am sure there are many people—and there are artists—who have never seen a whole head. They look from feature to feature. You can’t draw a head until you see it whole. It’s not easy. Try it. 31. No use trying to draw a thing until you have got all around it. It is only then that you comprehend a unity of which the parts can be treated as parts. 32. Keep your old work. You did it. There are virtues and there are faults in it for you to study. You can learn more from yourself than you can from anyone else. 33. No one can get anywhere without contemplation. Busy people who do not make contemplation part of their business do not do much for all their effort. 34. There is the heart and the mind, the Puritan idea is that the mind must be master. I think the heart should be master and the mind should be the tool and servant of the heart. As it is, we give too much attention to laws and not enough to principles. The man who wants to produce art must have the emotional side first, and this must be reinforced by the practical. 35. Some students possess the school they work in. Others are possessed by the school. 36. Let a student enter the school with this advice: No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self-education. 37. The best art the world has ever had is but the impress left by men who have thought less of making great art than of living full and completely with all their faculties in the enjoyment of full play. From these the result is inevitable. 38. The technique learned without a purpose is a formula which when used, knocks the life out of any ideas to which it is applied. 39. Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well. 40. There is no end to the study of technique. Yet more important than the lifelong study of technique is the lifelong self-education. In fact, technique can only be used properly by those who have definite purpose in what they do, and it is only they who invent technique. Otherwise it is the work of parrots. 41. There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it—frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself. 42. I believe in the study of technique. One should know as far as possible all the possibilities of a medium. 43. Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been. 44. We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other. 45. Always we would try to tie down the great to our little nationalism; whereas every great artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a “universal” without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere, a man whom all the world recognizes, accepts, whether he speaks through music, painting, words or form. 46. There is the new movement. There always has been the new movement and there always will be the new movement. It is strange that a thing which comes as regularly as clockwork should always be a surprise. In new movements the pendulum takes a great swing, charlatans crowd in, innocent apes follow, the masters make their successes and they make their mistakes as all pioneers must do. It is necessary to pierce to the core to get at the value of a movement and not be confused by its sensational exterior. 47. I am not interested in art as a means of making a living, but I am interested in art as a means of living a life. 48. It is not easy to know what you like. Most people fool themselves their entire lives through about this. Self-acquaintance is a rare condition. 49. We are all different; we are to do different things and see different life. Education is a self-product, a matter of asking questions and getting the best answers we can get. We read a book, a novel, any book, we are interested in it to the degree we find in it answers to our questions. 50. I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. 51. With a great will to say a thing comes clairvoyance. The more positively you have the need of a certain expression the more power you will have to select out of chaos the term of that expression. 52. It is not desirable to devote all your time to an appreciation of art. Art should drive you forth. It should be an incentive to life. The greatest value of art to the appreciator is in that it stimulates to personal activity. 53. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art. Art is a result. It is the trace of those who have led their lives. 54. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be young, to continue growing—not to settle and accept. The most beautiful life possible, wherein there is no sordidness, is only attainable by effort. To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. 55. Keep up the work. Try to reduce everything you see to the utmost simplicity. That is, let nothing but the things which are of the utmost importance to you have any place. 56. The only education that counts is self-education. 57. The pernicious influence of prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. You can give prizes justly for long-distance jumps, because you can measure jumps with a foot-rule. No way has been devised for measuring the value of a work of art. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. With few exceptions the greatest artists have been repudiated by the art juries in all countries and at all times. 58. To work, mind and body, and to be alone enough to concentrate is the thing. 59. I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope we will come to an understanding that the material used is only incidental, that there is artist in every man; and that to him the possibility of development and of expression and the happiness of creation is as much a right and as much a duty to himself, as to any of those who work in the especially ticketed ways. 60. I think the real artists are too busy with just being and growing and acting (on canvas or however) like themselves to worry about the end. The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation. People sometimes phrase about the joy of work. It is only in creative work that joy may be found. 61. There is a joy in the pursuit of anything. Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development. 62. Your drawing should be an expression of your spiritual sight. 63. Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad. 64. When away from model draw from memory. Draw also opposite or very different views from what you had in the class. 65. Look for the spirit line that runs through everything. 66. Self-education, only, produces expression of self. Don’t ask for a criticism until you are sure you can’t give it yourself. Then you will be in a fine state to receive it. You cannot impose education on anyone. 67. If you get stuck with your painting, make a sketch of the model in another medium. It will give you a fresh eye. 68. In life we eradicate much to see beauty. 69. Everybody who has any respect for painting feels scared when he starts a new canvas. 70. All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. 71. See things not as they are, but as you see them. What I got out of it 1. One of the more beautiful books I’ve read in sometime. Art is the study of the relative of things, art is drawing what you see and not drawing things as they are, it’s about making things and not the study of it, don’t limit yourself to any one school, all education is self-education. Worth re-reading! SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books and tagged Art, Creativity, Robert Henri, Worth Re-reading on June 29, 2022 by Blas. THE WAY TO LOVE: MEDITATIONS FOR LIFE BY ANTHONY DE MELLO Summary 1. de Mello’s deep thoguhts on happiness, love, life Key Takeaways 1. Yet another belief: Happiness will come if you manage to change the situation you are in and the people around you. Not true. You stupidly squander so much energy trying to rearrange the world. If changing the world is your vocation in life, go right ahead and change it, but do not harbor the illusion that this is going to make you happy. What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. 2. If people want happiness so badly, why don’t they attempt to understand their false beliefs? First, because it never occurs to them to see them as false or even as beliefs. They see them as facts and reality, so deeply have they been programmed. Second, because they are scared to lose the only world they know: the world of desires, attachments, fears, social pressures, tensions, ambitions, worries, guilt, with flashes of the pleasure and relief and excitement which these things bring. 3. And when you are depressed and miserable, the cause is there for all to see: Life is not giving you what you have convinced yourself you cannot be happy without. Almost every negative emotion you experience is the direct outcome of an attachment. 4. In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments. 5. Now the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness—it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness; and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment. 6. There is only one way to win the battle of attachments: Drop them. Contrary to popular belief, dropping attachments is easy. All you have to do is see, but really see, the following truths. First truth: You are holding on to a false belief, namely, the belief that without this particular person or thing you will not be happy. Take your attachments one at a time and see the falseness of this belief. 7. Second truth: If you just enjoy things, refusing to let yourself be attached to them, that is, refusing to hold the false belief that you will not be happy without them, you are spared all the struggle and emotional strain of protecting them and guarding them for yourself. 8. The third and final truth: If you learn to enjoy the scent of a thousand flowers you will not cling to one or suffer when you cannot get it. If you have a thousand favorite dishes, the loss of one will go unnoticed and leave your happiness unimpaired. But it is precisely your attachments that prevent you from developing a wider and more varied taste for things and people. 9. Who decides what will finally make its way to your conscious mind from all the material that is pouring in from the world? Three decisive filters: first your attachments, second your beliefs and third your fears. 10. True happiness is uncaused. You are happy for no reason at all. And true happiness cannot be experienced. It is not within the realm of consciousness. It is unself-consciousness. 11. Change is only brought about by awareness and understanding. Understand your unhappiness and it will disappear—what results is the state of happiness. 12. How can you achieve this? Through an important realization, namely, that every time you strive to improve on Nature by going against it, you will damage yourself, for Nature is your very being. 13. with a view to making it learn something. If what you attempt is not to change yourself but to observe yourself, to study every one of your reactions to people and things, without judgment or condemnation or desire to reform yourself, your observation will be nonselective, comprehensive, never fixed on rigid conclusions, always open and fresh from moment to moment. Then you will notice a marvelous thing happening within you: You will be flooded with the light of awareness, you will become transparent and transformed. 14. The royal road to mysticism and to Reality does not pass through the world of people. It passes through the world of actions that are engaged in for themselves without an eye to success or to gain—or profit actions. 15. How does one attain this quality of love? Anything you do will only make it forced, cultivated and therefore phony, for love cannot be forced. There is nothing you can do. But there is something you can drop. Observe the marvelous change that comes over you the moment you stop seeing people as good and bad, as saints and sinners and begin to see them as unaware and ignorant. You must drop your false belief that people can sin in awareness. No one can sin in the light of awareness. Sin occurs, not, as we mistakenly think, in malice, but in ignorance. 16. The cause of my irritation is not in this person but in me. 17. Apply this now to every image that people have of you and they tell you that you are a genius or wise or good or holy, and you enjoy that compliment and in that minute you lose your freedom; because now you will be constantly striving to retain that opinion. 18. So the first ingredient of love is to really see the other. The second ingredient is equally important to see yourself, to ruthlessly flash the light of awareness on your motives, your emotions, your needs, your dishonesty, your self-seeking, your tendency to control and manipulate. This means calling things by their name, no matter how painful the discovery and the consequences. If you achieve this kind of awareness of the other and yourself, you will know what love is. For you will have attained a mind and a heart that is alert, vigilant, clear, sensitive, a clarity of perception, a sensitivity that will draw out of you an accurate, appropriate response to every situation at every moment. 19. It is in that act of seeing that love is born, or rather more accurately, that act of seeing is Love. 20. It is the desire for “the more” that prevents clear thinking, whereas if we are discontented, not because we want something, but without knowing what we want; if we are dissatisfied with our jobs, with making money, with seeking position and power, with tradition, with what we have and with what we might have; if we are dissatisfied, not with anything in particular but with everything, then I think we shall find that our discontent brings clarity. When we don’t accept or follow, but question, investigate, penetrate, there is an insight out of which comes creativity, joy. 21. The final disappearance of insecurity feelings will only come when you have attained that blessed ability of the birds of the air and the flowers of the field to live fully in the present, one moment at a time. 22. Each time you attempt that task you will understand that what clear thinking calls for is not intelligence—that is easily come by—but the courage that has successfully coped with fear and with desire, for the moment you desire something or fear something, your heart will consciously or unconsciously get in the way of your thinking. 23. Effort does not lead to growth; effort, whatever the form it may take, whether it be willpower or habit or a technique or a spiritual exercise, does not lead to change. At best it leads to repression and a covering over of the root disease. Effort may change the behavior but it does not change the person. What I got out of it 1. Surrender your attachment to desires, realize it’s your reaction to things that make you happy or not and you have control over that, be aware and truly see yourself and others (the act of seeing is Love) SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books and tagged Anthony de Mello, Love, Philosophy, Surrender on June 29, 2022 by Blas. WHY GREATNESS CANNOT BE PLANNED BY KENNETH STANLEY, JOEL LEHMAN Summary 1. This book is about questioning the value of objectives, particularly when it is something audacious and innovative Key Takeaways 1. Found that algorithms performed most interestingly without an explicit objective function and argues the same holds true for life 2. Many objectives are admirable, but we should question their dominance in our culture. Sometimes it may be better to surrender. 3. Interestingly, the most ambitious goals may be best reached without objectives. It’s useful to think of achievement as a process of discovery. Stepping stones are portals to the next level of possibility. 4. Ambitious goals are deceptive, so the next stepping stone to get to the final end state are unclear. The greatest achievements are less likely when they have objectives, so the optimal path for these great achievements is to have no objective at all as relevant stepping stones aren’t obvious and would be missed if too focused on the objective – the stepping stone doesn’t resemble the final product. In other words, no matter how tempting it is to believe in it, the distant objective cannot guide you to itself – it is the ultimate false compass 5. Sometimes the best way to achieve something great is to stop trying to achieve a particular great thing. In other words, greatness is possible if you are willing to stop demanding what greatness should be…We’re missing out on a lot by clinging to objectives 6. The genius of the Wright brothers wasn’t to invent every necessary component from flight from scratch, it was to recognize that we were only a stepping stone away from flight given past innovations. Great invention is defined by the realization that the prerequisites are in place, laid before us by predecessors with entirely unrelated ambitions, just waiting to be combined and enhanced. The flash of insight is seeing the bridge to the next stepping stone by building from the old ones. And the story of those stepping stones is not a story of intentional objective-driven building, one piece at at time towards some distant uber-invention as conceived by an overarching plan. On the contrary, just like in natural evolution and just like in Picbreeder, the stepping stones are laid in their own context for their own independent reasons, not because a visionary foresaw their role in future greatness 7. Unstructured play is vital for kids and adults – you have the right to pivot and follow your passions. The point is that novelty can often act as a stepping stone detector because anything novel is a potential stepping stone to something even more novel. In other words, novelty is a rough shortcut for identifying interestingness: interesting ideas are those that open up new possibilities. And while it might sound wishy-washy to go looking for “interesting” things, interestingness is a surprisingly deep and important concept 8. Novelty search accumulates information well, moves naturally from simple to complex 9. often possible to achieve more by not trying to achieve it 10. Nothing can reliably reach target objectives. We can find something amazing, we just can’t say what those somethings are. Great discoveries are possible if they’re left undefined…The strange paradox, where trying is a curse and not a blessing, sets the stage for a more realistic understanding of what is achievable and how. It means that ambitious goals can’t be reliably achieved by trying – unless they are one stepping stone away, where they come within reach. Otherwise, the only choice that remains is not trying. And while this treasure-hunting approach will not ensure reaching any particular objective, what it will do is accumulate stepping stones that lead to unfamiliar places. The treasure hunter is an opportunistic explorer – searching for anything and everything of value, without a care for what might be found. To be a treasure hunter, you have to collect as many stepping stones as you can, because you never know which one might lead somewhere valuable 11. The best way to harness the power of a group of people in the non-objective world isn’t through brainstorming sessions or meetings or big ambitious projects. It’s not about sitting down and coming to a consensus on what to do. That’s not the treasure hunter – consensus is exactly the cultural tendency that we need to scale. We don’t want “Top 40” lists where everyone tries to agree what the best songs are, nor “design by committee” where any interesting vision for a new product is watered down by consensus. No, the way to unleash the treasure hunter is to actually through separating people from each other, like in Picbreeder, where people only interact by taking off from where someone else left off. While many participants in such a treasure-hunting system might arrive with their own personal objectives, the system as a whole ends up lacking a unified objective because people’s objectives differ…With instantaneous global communication, it becomes easier than ever to organize people all over the world to build off each other’s creations 12. Having no plan might be the best plan – explore widely without objectives 13. When there is no destination, there can’t be a right path. Instead of judging every activity for its potential to succeed, we should judge our projects for their potential to spawn more projects…So, if you’re wondering how to escape the myth of the objective, just do things because they’re interesting 14. To achieve our highest goals, we must be willing to abandon them 15. Search is at its most awesome when it has no unified objective 16. Perhaps then it would make sense sometimes to reward maximal disagreement instead of agreement. It’s possible that anti-consensus may be more interesting than bland agreement. After all, attracting a unanimous vote in science could be a sign of nothing more than echoing the status quo. If you’re doing whatever is hot and parrot the right buzzwords, you might be able to attract wide support. On the other hand, an interesting idea is likely to split votes. At the border between our present knowledge and the unknown are questions whose answers remain uncertain. That’s why the opinions of experts should diverge in such uncharted territory. It’s in the wild borderland between the known and the unknown that we should want our greatest minds probing, rather than within the comfortable vacation-spot of maximal consensus. Just think, which project is likely more revolutionary, one that receives, excellent, excellent, poor, poor, or the one that receives excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent? Splitting experts may be more of an achievement than unifying them 17. If you’re looking to invest in visionaries, find those who wander in nearby shadows 18. The successful inventor asks where we can get from here rather than how ewe can get there 19. Competition should play a secondary role to creativity 20. Natural evolution can be seen as novelty-generating search with local competition…A key insight from thinking non-objectively in this chapter is that although evolution can be seen as a competition, out-competing other creatures on the “objective” of surviving and reproducing is less important than escaping from competition to form new niches. What I got out of it 1. The idea of being a curious explorer, following and optimizing for novelty and interestingness strikes me deeply. Importantly, this is for ambitious, audacious ideas and not for to-do lists or day to day life. You have to concede control of the final destination. There is risk in this, but the reward is worthwhile SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books, Worth Re-reading and tagged AI, Algorithms, Joel Lehman, Ken Stanley, Philosophy, Worth Re-reading on June 29, 2022 by Blas. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY I recently read Morgan Housel’s wonderful book, The Psychology of Money. It’s a powerfully pragmatic, concise, and useful book in a sea of useless financial resources. While I enjoyed the actual content, one of the more valuable things it did was to help me revisit the question behind the “why” of money and wealth. After thinking through this again, it left me feeling like there is a gap that I’m hoping this essay is useful in helping explore. If Morgan’s book focuses on the “what” of money, I aim to focus here on the “why”. The Philosophy of Money SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Essays and tagged Essays, Money, Philosophy, Wealth on June 27, 2022 by Blas. THE UNTETHERED SOUL: THE JOURNEY BEYOND YOURSELF BY MICHAEL SINGER Summary 1. What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions. Key Takeaways 1. The 3 big distractions from the seat of our soul – the outside world, our thoughts, our emotions. 2. All external movement is striving to make ourselves feel good inside. Aim to fix the internal rather than try to patch through the external 3. Come to understand that nothing that happens is personal. You are witness to a tiny fraction of all the things that are happening, yet you think the one thing you’re a part of is happening to you. It isn’t 4. Don’t surrender life, surrender resistance to life. Resistance or the clinging to positive things brings suffering 5. Personal preferences get in the way of your ability to objectively view reality. The highest plane is to be able to observe, learn, grow, and accept from all of life’s experiences. Accept whatever reality throws at you 6. Most people identify most closely with their thoughts, but realize these are padding as well. You can recognize them and then let them go. They need not rule your life 7. Letting go of yourself rather than serving yourself is the real paradigm shift 8. Every experience makes you a greater person if you don’t resist it 9. Accepting an emotion is the midway between suppressing and expressing 10. If you are wise, you’ll change your reactions to reality rather than fighting reality What I got out of it 1. A beautiful book that left me feeling grounded. Nothing new, but many simple, powerful reminders SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books and tagged Meditation, Michael Singer, Philosophy, Surrender on June 2, 2022 by Blas. THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS BY MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Summary 1. The Book of Five Rings is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Key Takeaways 1. The warrior must know literature, strategy, warfare, the way of death. This makes them strong and deadly 2. The strategy of a general relies on applying on a large scale what they’ve studied on a small scale. The principle of strategy is knowing 10,000 things from a single thing. Knowing 1 thing deeply has compounding benefits 3. If you master multiple weapons, you’ll know the right time for the right weapon. Each has its advantages and drawbacks. You should not become overly reliant on any one weapon and you should personalize each to your strengths and weaknesses. It is a negative to have marked preferences 4. Learn to appreciate all things and to be able to judge the quality of it 5. Do not perform useless acts 6. Look powerfully. See gently What I got out of it 1. A beautiful and engaging book on military strategy that combines philosophy, zen buddhism, confucianism, taoism, and mastery SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books and tagged Kenjutsu, Martial Arts, Mastery, Miyamoto Musashi on June 2, 2022 by Blas. THE JOYS OF COMPOUNDING: THE PASSIONATE PURSUIT OF LIFELONG LEARNING BY GAUTAM BAID Summary 1. Value investing is not just a system for success in the market. It is also an intellectual toolkit for achieving a deeper understanding of the world. The author takes a holistic approach to value investing and philosophy from his wide-ranging reading, combining practical approaches, self-cultivation, and business wisdom. Key Takeaways 1. The best investment of time is to invest in personal development. 2. The way to achieve success in life is to learn constantly. And the best way to learn is to read, and to do so effectively. 3. rich have money. The wealthy have control over their time. 4. Knowledge is overrated. Wisdom is underrated. Intellect is overrated. Temperament is underrated. Outcome is overrated. Process is underrated. Short-term outperformance is overrated. Long-term adherence to one’s investment philosophy is underrated. Gross return is overrated. Stress-adjusted return is underrated. Upside potential is overrated. Downside protection is underrated. Maximization of returns is overrated. Avoidance of ruin is underrated. Growth is overrated. Longevity is underrated. Entry multiple is overrated. Exit multiple is underrated. Price-to-earnings ratio is overrated. Duration of competitive advantage period is underrated. Categorization of stocks into large cap, mid cap, and small cap is overrated. Categorization of businesses into great, good, and gruesome is underrated. Being more frequently right than others is overrated. Being less wrong than others is underrated. Forecasting is overrated. Preparation is underrated. Confidence is overrated. Humility is underrated. Conviction is overrated. Pragmatism is underrated. Complexity is overrated. Simplicity is underrated. Analytical ability is overrated. Personal behavior is underrated. Having a high income level is overrated. Inculcating a disciplined saving habit is underrated. Competition with peers is overrated. Helping our peers is underrated. Large personal net worth is overrated. Good karma is underrated. Talent is overrated. Resilience is underrated. Being the best investor is overrated. Being the most authentic version of yourself is underrated. 5. Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses—especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. —Leonardo da Vinci 6. excellent resource to build up one’s latticework.1) As the Chinese proverb goes, “I forget what I hear; I remember what I see; I know what I do.” Because the best way to learn something is by practicing it, we must routinely apply the mental models to different situations in our daily lives. 7. deliberate practice, it helps us identify our leverage 8. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. —Voltaire 9. Charles Collier writes, in his guidebook on philanthropy Wealth in Families, that “according to Aristotle and his latter-day student, Thomas Jefferson, the ‘pursuit of happiness’ has to do with an internal journey of learning to know ourselves and an external journey of service of others.” 10. Buffett’s key takeaway from The Intelligent Investor was this: If you eliminate the downside, then all that remains is the upside. After that, the key is to keep emotions in check and be patient. It really is that simple. 11. Investing is not about being original or creative; it is about looking for the greatest amount of value (for the price paid) with the least amount of risk. Putting in more time and effort does not guarantee better results in investing. Rather, it is more beneficial to do less and make fewer but better choices. 12. As Charlie Munger says, “The goal of investment is to find situations where it is safe not to diversify.” 13. One of the hardest things to do in life is to avoid good opportunities so that you have time to devote to great opportunities—and having the wisdom to know the difference. 14. Instead, ask yourself, “What is the most important thing I can do today? What is the one thing that would make everything else in my life either easier or unnecessary?” 15. There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. —Mahatma Gandhi 16. The parable of the Mexican fisherman and the American banker is one of my favorite stories and contains an important life lesson. It is habitual for most of us to build incessantly and forget that the endgame should really be happiness and a fulfilling life. It is equally easy to overlook all the goodness we are surrounded by today. It doesn’t take a lot of money to have a truly wealthy life, but it does take financial independence, which gives us control over our time. 17. The goal of financial independence is to stop depending on others (bosses, clients, a schedule, a paycheck). True wealth is measured in terms of personal liberty and freedom, not monetary currency. Money alone does not signify independence. Control over time does. The only definition of success is to be able to spend your life in your own way. 18. Growth and contribution are the bedrocks of happiness. Not stuff. 19. Personal freedom allows us sufficient time to think. Making good decisions requires quiet time alone in our heads to think through a problem from multiple points of view. Uninterrupted personal time is life’s most valuable limited resource. Several notable creators, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, regularly take “think weeks” to invigorate their thinking and to allow their minds to wander. 20. Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough. 21. A contrarian isn’t one who always takes the opposite path just for the sake of it. That is simply a conformist of a different sort. A true contrarian is one who reasons independently, from the ground up, based on factual data, and resists pressure to conform. 22. To invest in companies with “the capacity to suffer,” we must be willing to suffer along with them. In other words, we need a high tolerance for short-term pain. 23. Embracing deferred gratification is what leads to the single biggest edge for an investor. Human nature makes it difficult to utilize this edge. This difficulty is the very reason the edge exists, and because human nature will never change, this edge is a durable one for those who possess the right temperament to capitalize on it. Bezos 24. The path to lasting wealth is deferred gratification, savings, and compound interest. Develop the habit of saving in such a way that you enjoy your present reasonably well and also ensure a bright future tomorrow. 25. Ask the right questions; you’ll get valuable answers. 26. Markets systematically underprice quality over long time periods. 27. High quality always beats a bargain over time. Although there are certainly exceptions, in the long run, bargains never outperform solid investments. This simple yet profound principle can be applied to virtually every area of life. Crash diets, predatory pricing, dishonesty, and shortcuts can work well for a while, but they are never sustainable. 28. Techno-Fund investors tend to believe in two key principles, in addition to strong earnings growth and industry fundamentals, when analyzing potential buys: first, stocks that show relative strength, that is, that go sideways or consolidate during significant market pullbacks, tend to outperform significantly during the subsequent market recovery; and, second, the first stocks that break out to new fifty-two-week highs after, or during, a major correction tend to become the leaders of the next rally. 29. When you truly embrace lifelong learning, Lady Luck and serendipity eventually reward you in a big way. 30. The right book at the right time will speak to you in a way that the right book at the wrong time just won’t. 31. Well-managed low-cost commodity producers usually do not generate higher returns. High-cost producers do, because they show a higher percentage gain in profitability. This is highly counterintuitive for most investors. 32. Commodity stocks are not long-term investments. They generate alpha in portfolios in a short period of time, driven by a combination of financial and operating leverage, and you exit them not on peak reported earnings but when the expectations of margin improvement peak out. A good time to begin planning your exit from a commodity industry is when the government decides to curb its profitability. 33. When only a single firm in the entire industry is profitable, then the commodity in question may be at or near the bottom of the cycle. What I got out of it 1. A comprehensive, fun read on the benefits of compounding in various life domains. Even if you don’t care about investing, the mindset and examples Gautam shares will be useful regardless of age, industry, or passions SPREAD THE LOVE * Share * * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) * * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Click to print (Opens in new window) * * This entry was posted in Books and tagged Compounding, Gautam Baid, Investing on June 2, 2022 by Blas. POST NAVIGATION ← Older posts SEARCH Search for: SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER Email PATRONS PARTIAL TO BITCOIN? 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