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Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. One theme that’s come up on this blog are moments where someone thinks, “Hmm, that’s interesting.” These ideas emerge when someone’s perception of the world doesn’t match reality. When this happens we can do three things. Dismiss reality (stubborn), That person is an idiot. Of … Continue reading “Hmm, That’s Interesting”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. Restaurants are terrible businesses but in the spirit of inversion we can learn from anyone. Lately, a quote from Barry Ritholtz’s podcast with Cal Turner Jr. has bounced around my head: “Luther Turner, my papa, was wonderful. He only had a third-grade education. He … Continue reading “Restaurants”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. Michael Smith and Rahul Telang of Carnegie Melon University wrote an interesting book, Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment. Smith and Telang wrote this book because of a “perfect storm” in the economic entertainment ecosystem. Traditionally a few firms dominated … Continue reading “Streaming, Sharing, Stealing”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. Greg Lindsay’s talk, Innovation Doesn’t Happen at Your Desk is an attempt to get people to work together and better. I think he’d agree with Rory Sutherland in that many of the logical questions have been answered and we need to get a bit … Continue reading “Greg Lindsay”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. Avi Goldfarb and Ajay Agrawal spoke at Google about Prediction Machines. They wrote the book because they noticed more AI startups in Toronto and more AI investing in the Bay. “We got to see both the flood of companies coming into our lab in … Continue reading “Avi Goldfarb & Ajay Agrawal”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. James Aitken spoke with Ted Seides on the Capital Allocators podcast. What I liked most about this episode was Aitken’s approach to interestingness. We’ve written about that’s interesting moments before. Eric Maddox had his in Iraq. Brian Koppelman had his and it inspired Billions … Continue reading “James Aitken”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. Joel Greenblatt joined Barry Ritholtz for a strong seventy or so minutes. Even though I’ve read (but need to re-read) You Can Be A Stock Market Genius I still enjoyed this episode. On to the annotations! … A new Point of View. Greenblatt had … Continue reading “Joel Greenblatt”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. When my wife’s first fix arrived the value was obvious. Stitch Fix founder, Katrina Lake’s How I Built This podcast (and other interviews) are another template for startups. It’s a similar path to Instagram & theSkimm, only Lake has taken one further step, straddling … Continue reading “Katrina Lake”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. These notes will be an overview of some ideas from the 2018 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. … Intellectual honesty. “We took pride in building a culture where we loved each other enough to tell each other what we needed to hear. If you can … Continue reading “Ideas — Sloan 2018”

Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. I saw this: Going to read a book a day this week away from kids. What is the most interesting non-fiction you’ve read that is a “deep” instead of “broad” book? — Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) January 14, 2018 And thought, that’s interesting let’s see … Continue reading “Deep Books”