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How to Find Comfort with Writing Weaknesses
I’ve started writing Insecticide Two. I put sixty hours into the outline, felt good about the path forward, and excited to write a...
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Dec 1, 20222 min read


How I Value Good Companies
Before I value a company, I place it into one of two quantitative categories: good and… not good. That determination is made by looking...
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Dec 1, 20223 min read


How I Deal with Writer’s Block
Writer’s block can feel like a vise, slowly squeezing every word and creative thought out of you, until all that’s left in the world are...
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Oct 2, 20224 min read


Matsuoka Corp (TSE:3611): My Fair Value Estimate
Matsuoka Corp is Japanese company engaged in the garment industry. That’s only relevant to the extent that the company doesn’t appear...
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Sep 29, 20222 min read


Insecticide 2 Update: Singing in the Shower
I completed an outline version this week. I read the outline aloud after finishing to see how it sounded, and how quickly and simply it...
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Sep 25, 20221 min read


How I Value Most Assets/Companies
For my purposes, I think investing in individual stocks (at the right prices) provides the best reward/risk distribution, i.e. I can...
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Sep 24, 20223 min read


Insecticide 2 Update: Progress?
My outline for Insecticide 2 is growing—up to ten pages—but so is my To Do list. Bullet items seem to be spawning bullet items at this...
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Sep 18, 20222 min read


Insecticide 2 Update: Is the Final Cumulative?
When I was in grad school, every semester at least one professor would read the syllabus aloud during the first class—grad school...
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Sep 10, 20222 min read
What is Investing?
To me, investing is buying an asset for less than it is worth. That might seem self-evident, but I think hardly anyone does it. I worked...
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Sep 4, 20223 min read
How to Write a Book: Step One
Insecticide is published. It is a relief to be done. And, it has been nice to get good initial feedback—albeit amid meager sales. When I...
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Sep 4, 20223 min read
Can I (you) be a writer? And, how to be a writer.
I quit my job in 2016. After fifteen years, I’d had enough corporate life. But, I also felt if I stayed on the job longer, I’d regret it,...
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Aug 19, 20222 min read
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