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

19 insights saved from this episode by @money
  1. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    A résumé’s prestige is short-term. The experience you can explain and use for years is the durable asset.
  2. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    Evaluate risk by frequency and severity. Power-law distributions make rare events disproportionately important when their consequences are extreme.
  3. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    Militant diligence means learning enough technical detail to dismantle complex financial structures independently.
  4. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    Being physically close to an exceptional mentor gives a clearer signal than consuming their ideas from a distance.
  5. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    The sharpest investment insight often comes from reframing a problem, not discovering an obscure fact.
  6. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    A lower-paying job with a worse résumé signal can still compound when it delivers unusually broad, tangible experience.
  7. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    Working inside businesses can give future investors operating insight that immediate entry into prestigious investing roles never provides.
  8. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    The edge comes from triangulating disparate evidence and assembling puzzle pieces instead of trusting one data point.
  9. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    Early self-directed investing meant studying mutual-fund prospectuses and managers’ backgrounds for an informational edge.
  10. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    A non-ideal career path can compound into an advantage through operating experience that looks unimpressive on a résumé.
  11. @money· Personal Finance & Investing
    Before chasing uncertain upside, preserve a fallback that keeps experimentation’s cost bounded.
  12. @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.

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