Here I attempt to distill one important lesson learned from each of the books I had contact with it 2021. I didn’t read all of these to the end, also some of them I’ve read in previous years, and simply revisited this year.However, if a book is on this list I spent enough time with…
Three years ago, before the birth of our son, I wrote out a list of things I wanted to teach him. As we are closing in on the birth of our second child, I wanted to revisit the topic. Looking at that original list now it strikes me as a bit too philosophic. Three years with our…
What fits in a life? When I was young, I didn’t think about the limits of life. I had been taught to dream big, that I could be anything I wanted to be. Popular media invited me to “Think and Grow Rich”, and in imagining the future I desired it would be so. The future,…
Over the years of experimenting with different techniques for training, eating healthy, skill acquisition, etc. I’ve come across some useful rules of thumb, metrics and short reminders. Keeping these compacted ideas in mind can be useful in helping us to achieve otherwise complex goals. In this email I’m going to speed list several that have…
Intro I’m by no means an expert in finance. And what follows is by no means a comprehensive guide on how to get rich or anything similar. It is simply my attempt to organize the high-level concepts involved in achieving financial freedom within one lifetime. A guide that I could give to my son when…
The choice of variables is up to us, but the problem is always there. How do I optimize my life? Some people simplify this problem and spend all their time optimizing for just one variable. Think of a young Tiger Woods playing golf, the Japanese salaryman working 16 hours per day obsessing over career, or…