Todd Combs - Investing, The Last Liberal Art - [Art of Investing, EP.1]

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@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Wanting to become CEO does not make it happen. Complacency creates a ceiling you impose on yourself.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Evaluate risk by frequency and severity. Power-law distributions make rare events disproportionately important when their consequences are extreme.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Militant diligence means learning enough technical detail to dismantle complex financial structures independently.
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Being physically close to an exceptional mentor gives a clearer signal than consuming their ideas from a distance.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
The sharpest investment insight often comes from reframing a problem, not discovering an obscure fact.
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A lower-paying job with a worse résumé signal can still compound when it delivers unusually broad, tangible experience.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Working inside businesses can give future investors operating insight that immediate entry into prestigious investing roles never provides.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
The edge comes from triangulating disparate evidence and assembling puzzle pieces instead of trusting one data point.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Early self-directed investing meant studying mutual-fund prospectuses and managers’ backgrounds for an informational edge.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
A non-ideal career path can compound into an advantage through operating experience that looks unimpressive on a résumé.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
A résumé’s prestige is short-term. The experience you can explain and use for years is the durable asset.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Before chasing uncertain upside, preserve a fallback that keeps experimentation’s cost bounded.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
The most satisfying part of building an investment firm is solving the analytical puzzle, not attracting money, hiring staff, or earning recognition.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Breadth across fields creates transferable advantages, especially in investing, where multidisciplinary thinking is essential.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Explore like assembling a jigsaw puzzle: expose every possibility, find the edges and corners, then build toward the center.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Psychology is directly useful in investing because investing requires deciphering human behavior.
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People solve careers statically even as circumstances and personal preferences keep evolving.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Intellectual honesty means following evidence wherever it leads instead of forcing investments into long or short theses.
@money· Personal Finance & Investing
Analyzing only half a balance sheet produces a distorted conclusion. Study both assets and liabilities.

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