Ponder-worthy stuff I read last week
The best way to talk to people about money … is keeping the phrases, “What do you want to do?” or “Whatever works for you,” loaded and ready to fire. You can explain to other people the history of what…
Category: Rational Optimist There are so many rational reasons why we can look optimistically into the future.
Being more selfish by practicing Effective Altruism
It’s a basic rule of economics that money is less valuable to you the more you have of it. It’s the end of the year and it’s the season of giving. It’s a fact that giving is the most selfish…
Book Review – Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill
You’re rich. No, really you are. Whether you’ve paid for a computer or smartphone to browse the TACOMOB website on, or even handed a few coins over at an internet cafe, you’re far richer than many of your fellow human…
My 10 Golden Rules: If I were 22, I’d wish that someone would have taught me
1) How to succeed? The education system you just went through has planted some seeds into you. Now it is up to you—and only you—to make them grow. Go the extra mile, and see how good you can be at…
Have you recently thought about the Recency Bias?
We tend to associate more importance to recent events than we do to less recent ones. The more vivid our memory of something which occurred in the past is, the more “available” that event will be in our mind and the more…
Old news that made me go hmmm last week
I am not a very up-to-date kind of guy. Sometimes I stumble across some very old facts that I did not know about before (and that have nothing to do with investing). Like this one: The condor uses the least…
The benefits of being a wee bit sceptical in believing others
I am convinced that my brain does a poor job of separating truth from fiction. This leads to many false beliefs. Therefore, I want to make at least a minimal effort to understand my brain better and be on guard…
100 Biases and Bias Bias
einhundert – 100 – one hundred The other day I have shared with you this gigantic Cognitive Bias Codex. It contains 189 different biases. So far I have written about 100 biases that make you do dumb things with your…
Cognitive-Biases-Life-Hack
Emotions are the main cause and driving force in the stock markets. Last week I shared some thoughts why understanding our mind as a tool that tries to live in an uncertain world is an important challenge. Because the brain…
Is having more money important to make you happier? Let’s put it into perspective
Would knowing that you are among the TOP 1% earners in the world make you happy? How much does one need to earn to be among the TOP 1% of the world? US$ 34,000 or about S$ 45,000 per year.…
There are so many rational reasons why we can look optimistically into the future.
Being more selfish by practicing Effective Altruism
It’s a basic rule of economics that money is less valuable to you the more you have of it. It’s the end of the year and it’s the season of giving. It’s a fact that giving is the most selfish…
Book Review – Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill
You’re rich. No, really you are. Whether you’ve paid for a computer or smartphone to browse the TACOMOB website on, or even handed a few coins over at an internet cafe, you’re far richer than many of your fellow human…
My 10 Golden Rules: If I were 22, I’d wish that someone would have taught me
1) How to succeed? The education system you just went through has planted some seeds into you. Now it is up to you—and only you—to make them grow. Go the extra mile, and see how good you can be at…
Have you recently thought about the Recency Bias?
We tend to associate more importance to recent events than we do to less recent ones. The more vivid our memory of something which occurred in the past is, the more “available” that event will be in our mind and the more…
Old news that made me go hmmm last week
I am not a very up-to-date kind of guy. Sometimes I stumble across some very old facts that I did not know about before (and that have nothing to do with investing). Like this one: The condor uses the least…
The benefits of being a wee bit sceptical in believing others
I am convinced that my brain does a poor job of separating truth from fiction. This leads to many false beliefs. Therefore, I want to make at least a minimal effort to understand my brain better and be on guard…
100 Biases and Bias Bias
einhundert – 100 – one hundred The other day I have shared with you this gigantic Cognitive Bias Codex. It contains 189 different biases. So far I have written about 100 biases that make you do dumb things with your…
Cognitive-Biases-Life-Hack
Emotions are the main cause and driving force in the stock markets. Last week I shared some thoughts why understanding our mind as a tool that tries to live in an uncertain world is an important challenge. Because the brain…
Is having more money important to make you happier? Let’s put it into perspective
Would knowing that you are among the TOP 1% earners in the world make you happy? How much does one need to earn to be among the TOP 1% of the world? US$ 34,000 or about S$ 45,000 per year.…