Month: August 2016

After Laurel and I visited Portland for Jordan’s wedding, we watched a few episodes of the Portlandia television show on Netflix. Pretty funny, but it does wear out after a few episodes.

The goal of my investment principles is to maximize the value of my investments over my lifetime. I want a high return with low risk.

Here they are in their current form in order of priority:

1. Seek companies that I believe have a high probability of long term (10+ years) success
2. The most successful companies are run by their founders on a day to day basis.

… read more “My Investment Principles”

For a long time, capacity has been one of Coalition’s greatest limiting factors. I built a new recruiting system though that has helped us exponentially increase our ability to hire new folks. Now, it is making hiring new people on much easier. I am actually preparing to send out 17 offer letters today! I hope to have about 8 of those people accept the offers and maybe 5-6 work out to be great team members.… read more “17 Offers”

I am currently very confused about what is going on in the global economy. Interest rates are negative, most assets seem to be in a bubble… very confusing as to where to invest.

Great book on addiction.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly

 

 

It is incredibly ineffective at security. It costs billions. Shut down TSA.

I have been trying to review my old work and interactions with people to see what I can learn. Today I am watching one of my company videos from a few months back.

My notes:

• Make sure that I share my screen when doing demonstrations so remote workers can see it.
• Have other people talk more, not just me.

… read more “Reflection on Company Video”

Leftmost digit bias: humans have a heuristic where they look most closely at the leftmost digit. This is why most infomercial products are priced $19.95 instead of $21 or something. Furthermore, each additional 10k mark increase in car mileage, price drops significantly.

Last Objection: A salesperson asks about a clients last objection. They then resolve the objection and ask the person to uphold their promise that that was their last objection.… read more “Leftmost Digit Bias, Last Objection, Testimonials, Stories, Love Bombings”