How to Quit. When Throwing in the Towel is the Right Decision.
Quitting is quite difficult for stubborn intelligent people. They will try over and over to get what they want and sometimes this is the wrong move (they just don’t have the right talents/skills). This...
View ArticleSpotting the Fool in the Room
In every situation (where money is involved), there is always a fool in the room. As you can see we’re zeroed in on the fun fight we’re going to watch on Saturday since the quote is derived from Poker:...
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Mayweather McGregor “Fight”: Business Tutorial and Controversial Lessons
Now that the fight is over (Floyd won as expected and we made $$$), we think it is the perfect time to highlight all of the chaos that occurred leading up to the fight. A lot of the items will be...
View ArticleLife Changing Items to Be Aware of As You Get Older
We wrote efficiency since a lot of our youth was wasted. Reading about “hacks” for health, fitness, money, dating that were all an enormous waste of time. Since the vast majority will still search for...
View ArticleSpotting the Mediocre: Ten Common Types
For the past couple of years we’ve had a lot of fun talking about regular people. They are easy to spot as they are entirely driven by emotion, root for the “underdog”, look to gain without adding any...
View ArticleEnterprise Sales: A Legitimate Career to Get Rich
This is a guest post from frequent commenter “Tech Sales” who works in the industry and has already *made it* up the stack so to speak. Enterprise sales is one of the few careers we recommend in...
View ArticleHuman Nature Will Never Change. And. How to Profit From It.
Back in 2012, we used to believe that giving out the truth would lead to more competition. That people would wake up, realize their mistakes and take action. After realizing this belief was wrong we...
View ArticleHow to Operate in Airports and… An Important Announcement
We’re doing a combo post since this will be more informative than anything. For fun, since we’ve racked up more miles than we could possibly imagine the last ~2 years, we’re going to give out all the...
View ArticleEverything Comes Down to Ego: Feed it to Get What You Want
The reason why people want to be famous? They want to be the center of attention (we have no idea why anyone would want this). The reason people want the Patek watch, Ferrari and big house? To get more...
View ArticleGetting Rich and Laying Low
One of the main items we preach here is getting rich and pretending to have nothing. We write the way we do because if we state something as “fact” it makes it a lot more likely that people will try...
View ArticleThe Next Big Market and the Underlying Truth About… The Brain.
We get a lot of questions about where people will spend money. We gave a ton away in our book, Efficiency, but we’ll give another one out for free. We’re giving it out for free because it’s a rapidly...
View ArticleWhen to Sell Your First Company (Part 1…)
As many of you know we’re selling an online business over the next 3 months. The first part is probably the toughest: deciding when to sell. It’s important because you’ll need to set it up in a way...
View ArticleCrypto Currency a Basic Introduction… The Future.
Decentralized crypto currencies are here to stay and will revolutionize the way we live. The naysayers typically bring up topics such as quantum computers (solved with a fork), 51% attack problems...
View ArticleQ&A Announcement and Introduction to Personal Finance Book
This has been a banner year and unquestionably the best year in history. We’re completing the sale of an asset by December 2017 that will come in just shy of 5x annual earnings (not bad considering 36...
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Q&A is Open and Why We Are More Aggressive With Portfolio Mangement
The Q&A section will be held right here on this post. As usual it will work as follows: 1) leave your transaction ID *in* the comment we will manually delete it before approving, 2) you are allowed...
View ArticleQuality of Life and Time: 15 Things to Remember
At the end of the day (assuming no major leaps in technology) time is the one finite quality that we all have in common. We all die eventually. As you accumulate more and more “digits” also known as...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Execute With Efficiency
When I was in my mid-20s I realized I had been lied to by a lot of people. They didn’t mean to spread lies, but good intentions do not change the facts. I always got good grades in college and high...
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Investment Banking Compensation 2017 – an Up Year!
We are updating the total Investment Banking compensation numbers for 2017. Excluded from this overview is investment banking analysts as the variability has not moved much. Simply put an investment...
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Ludvig Sunström and Mikael Syding Present: Breaking out of Homeostasis.
This is a guest post from Ludvig Sunström. Ludvig is the author of Breaking out of Homeostasis. Together with former hedge fund manager Mikael Syding, he hosts the popular Swedish business podcast “25...
View ArticleAsk Your Crypto Related Questions
The title says it all! We are making final touches this weekend on the book and given the volatility we have no doubt many people have many questions. All of the good questions will be added to the...
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