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In my conversation with @bgurley he talked about this too. He called it bedrock. When he first learned investing, he read 'Peter Lynch, One Up on Wall Street. A Random Walk Down Wall Street. All the Buffett letters, Ben Graham, and Howard Marks.' "In order to be great, you want to learn all the bedrock principles you possibly can but then, once you know those have the independence of thought and the confidence to innovate on top of those principles." Studying the history and knowing the pioneers is the closest thing to a cheat code you're gonna get. Quoting @TKPPodcast "We have the only industry in computing that doesn't even know its heroes... no one knows Alan Kay and Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. This matters, I think, because we discard great lessons and have to rediscover them over and over again." Related
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@RecDiffs @siracusa @hotdogsladies That Italian guy pronounced “Samhain" and “Siobhán” really quite well. If you want some cheap entertainment, try a perfectly normal Irish word such as “tábhachtach”, which means "important”. Like your Northern and Southern Italians, the dictionary link provides three pronunciations labeled “C”, “M”, “U”, for Connacht, Munster, and Ulster Irish, the three main provincial accents/dialects. (I'm from Munster so I pronounce it properly.) focloir.ie
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A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
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