Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 14th/15th October 2023
A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About by Morgan Housel
“People only communicate perhaps 1% of what’s going through their head, so the world is probably 100x crazier and messier than it looks. Related: It is easier to spot other people’s mistakes than your own, because we judge others based solely on their actions, but when judging ourselves we have an internal dialogue that justifies our mistakes and bad decisions…”
The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics by Max Roser
“This is why I’m very skeptical when people say things about “the world these days” based on what they hear from people they know.
We cannot see much of the world through our direct experience. The horizon of our personal experience is very narrow. For every person you know, there are ten million people you do not know.…”
No other investor has a life story quite as unbelievable as Li Lu by Eleanor Olcott
“Some student leaders had spoken to Wang Juntao about Li, wondering why he’d arrived in Beijing without any ties to the organisations behind the movement and why he wasn’t carrying identification. They wondered if Li was a spy. A veteran of past protests, Wang Juntao shrugged off their suspicions.…”
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