What is a Mental Model?

Life is hard. We live in a dynamic world that is simultaneously interconnected and pulling apart. What if we had a better way to deal with all the complex issues facing us? Mental Models For ...

Netflixland: Autocatalytic Overreactions

I’m torn on Netflix. They are clearly a great company, but the content spend worries me. Billions of dollars are spent every year, but what will be the long-term benefit. From a surface glance, the ...

Zillow: A Beautiful Business Ready to Be Torn Apart

“This hunger for freedom and an innate drive to empower consumers is also the spark of the ideas behind my philosophy of company creation and investment—what I call “power to the people.” Revolutionary companies give ...

Commoditizing Culture: Rebelling Against Algorithms

The world has become too commoditized. By commoditization, I mean “the transformation of goods, services, ideas, nature, personal information and people into commodities or objects of trade”. Uniformity is good, but so is differentiation. I worry too ...

Uber: A Wrong Turn and a Lost Company

Uber came out of nowhere for me. I didn’t really know how it worked until I found someone passed out drunk on the side of the road. My friend and I stopped to check on ...

The Myth of Market Cap

My portfolio returned >200% in 2020. Below is a chart of the the market cap of all my holdings at the start of 2020. As you can see, I didn’t get these insane returns with ...