Exams are coming up! At least for me and all other students of the University here in Maastricht. And while we all start spending enormous amounts of time in the library, sometimes you need a break. Get your head free! Do something different and stop reading (!) about cost of capital, WACC, ABC-systems and all […]
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The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger If you and I would have bought Disney stock in 1981 we’d have made a return of about 16.300% – that is an insane return. While this doesn’t tell us how Disney is going to perform in the future, it is interesting to observe why it did so
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The Chopstick of Speed (2/2) Have you ever written a poem? I have not. At least not before last week. But that is the beauty of writing this blog – I can write about whatever I want and however I want. It was hella fun to write last week’s post (part 1) and an awesome
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The Chopstick of Speed One by one we blink. One by one we bleed. One by one we plead. One by one we think. We do it slow Go down like snow When we should go like rain And safe the pain Next. One by one we turn. One by one we moan. One by one we groan. One by one we learn.
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I don’t know where to start this post. There are so many places to start at, but none of them feel right. John Strelecky’s The Big Five For Life is a book I would love to carry around all day and gift it to people. Just give one away every single day. Only a few books can
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When did you get your first phone? The average kid gets their first device at the age of ten. What were you like when you were ten? Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made sure that their kids were quite a bit older when they received their first iPhone (or whatever Gates’ kids got). Both Gates and
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I found The $100 Startup on accident. I was browsing for some other books on Amazon – among them One thousand ways to $1000, which Warren Buffett mentioned in an interview – but then Chris Guillebeau’s startup guide popped up and it went on my booklist immediately. In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau provides timeless lessons on how to get
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Noise – A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Cass R. Sunstein and Olivier Sibony How would you react if I told you that the length of the prison term, a convicted felon could get, depends on whether the judge had lunch before the trial or whether the local sports team had won the night
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There is a brilliant quote on the back of “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris, which reads: “For here, in the very worst of circumstances, is the very best of humanity”. The quote highlights what Morris’ novel is about: finding hope when no one else does, remembering your life’s purpose when its uncertain whether
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You Are Always Choosing to Give a Fuck The very first page of my edition of Mark Manson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck” (TSAONGAF – elegant, right?) holds the first notes I ever took on publishing a blog about reading. Some passage made me stop reading and ponder about what to do
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