Karl-Mikael Syding's Blog, page 15

Never take broker recommendations at face value

Topic: learning about learning in a stock market context Conclusion: Think through your investment strategy seriously; exactly what is it, that is supposed to make you outperform some of the smartest and most driven people in the world? The magic… Continue Reading →

Investing in 2018 – the trend is your friend

Topic: Macro research is all but useless for predicting the future. However just as with weather forecasts it can provide a gauge of the current state as well as current trends. Rather than predicting turning points, be content with an… Continue Reading →

Taking stock of the financial year of 2017 and adjusting my direction for 2018

Topic: my poor trading skills, and total tally for 2012-2017, as well as my plans for 2018 Length: short Conclusion: I’ll quit trading listed stocks (after a final handful of  +100%-ers) Hubris (see my post on Hubris here in the… Continue Reading →

Creating a confluence of success factors – new people equal new insights

If you don’t see new people you won’t see new things -Anna Svahn, networking phenomenon, in my (Swedish) podcast “25 minuter” (link) If you always see the same people, you’ll keep doing the same things, think the same thoughts, commit… Continue Reading →

How two Nobel Prizes about the circadian rhythm made me change my daily habits

Topic: Weekly and daily routines for optimal health and productivity in order to maximize your amount of life time fun Nobel relevance: A series of Nobel Prizes has shed light on the adverse effects on metabolism (diabetes), heart disease, and… Continue Reading →

How two Nobel Prizes about the cirkadian rhythm made me change my daily habits

Topic: Weekly and daily routines for optimal health and productivity in order to maximize your amount of life time fun Conclusion: This is my way, but how do you organize your time in order to leave room for spontaneity while minimizing… Continue Reading →

Audio books and meditating

Topic: meditation without meditation Conclusion: using audiobooks for altering your state of consciousness is meditative Length: very short; 1-2 minutes Market relevance: Very high, use this method to consider important variables and correlations, problems, errors and remedies to improve your… Continue Reading →

Me too isn’t ALL bad

Summary: Both sides have made mistakes, but worst of all is that actual rape victims are compared with female colleagues overhearing a bad joke that was thought to be told in private Length: very short, 1-2 minutes They too A… Continue Reading →

There will be problems

The magic of error correcting Topic: There will be problems Discussion: Soluble problems are the rule Conclusion: Error correcting is key to all decision making not least investments, albeit unfortunately largely ignored in political areas such as public governance and… Continue Reading →

Forget the sunscreen song and focus on sleeping

Topic: the importance of sleep, not a bug but a feature Length: short (3 minutes?) Style: a friendly neighborhood spider reminder Conclusion: Sleep forms the basis of the sleep-nutrition-physical health pyramid of power that’s a prerequisite for long term satisfaction… Continue Reading →