Karl-Mikael Syding's Blog, page 18

How grit, time and practice leads to creativity

Topic: Creativity Summary: Creative insights take years and decades of experiences to get, so you’d better engage your grit yesterday already We are down on the month with just two days left. Get me something good NOW. Nobody leaves until… Continue Reading →

How to silence the noise and come up with new ideas

Brainstorming The other day I tried a writing exercise I do every now and then – though not as regularly as I probably should. I simply sat down with a pen and paper and wrote down everything that sprang to… Continue Reading →

Write anything, fill and empty your mind

Brainstorming The other day I tried a writing exercise I do every now and then – though not as regularly as I probably should. I simply sat down with a pen and paper and wrote down everything that sprang to… Continue Reading →

Bubble sort: how to bring order to chaos on financial markets

How to be a stock market genius (OK, perhaps a little hyberbolic) Idea: bubble sorting: one of the first things they used to teach in programming, i.e., in a list of items try them against each other and see which… Continue Reading →

Predicting the future, one small step at a time – for happiness, relevance, work and investments

Summary: I’m not writing about, or predicting, the future, I’m asking you to do it, mostly as a brain exercise, forcing you to actually think Length: very short So, you doubt the Singularity* will happen? [* the technological Singularity, when… Continue Reading →

Predicting the future, one small step at a time

Summary: I’m not writing about, or predicting, the future, I’m asking you to do it, mostly as a brain exercise, forcing you to actually think Length: very short So, you doubt the Singularity* will happen? [* the technological Singularity, when… Continue Reading →

Gauge your T-score trading status for better performance, or risk wrong-sizing

Summary: Cornerstone habits tend to make the other pieces of life  click into place Gauging your status before trading Before making any trade on the financial markets each day, I’m sure you calculate your T-score*, i.e., subjectively measuring your cognitive… Continue Reading →

Why religion is the lazy coward’s way

Summary: Religion is to science what snacking and TV-addiction is to exercise and deep work Religion is lazy, indulgent, and intellectually cowardly. A scientist has to work much harder at uncovering the true nature of reality. It takes centuries of… Continue Reading →

How to relevantly use (relative) valuation gauges

Topic: Valuation multiples and how you should use them Summary: the word of the day is relative; relative valuation – both in scope and in time Nota Bene: This is just a short reflection on valuation multiples and their use.… Continue Reading →

Sprezza Speculates – now in video format

Hi, I’m just letting you know I’ve recently begun airing short (1-2 minutes) daily video snippets in English here. For example, here are episode one, episode two and episode three. I’ve been doing it in Swedish for a few months… Continue Reading →