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Rule 62 Part 2
Two stories: Many years ago, I was invited on a prominent financial podcast. You have probably heard of it. I was excited to go on—some of the guests…
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The 80% Solution
I write a financial newsletter, as you may have heard, and I publish it every day. If I wanted to, I could make it perfect—I could wordsmith the shit…
Apr 20
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Jared Dillian
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New York and Boston
I am a Yankees fan. I have been since age five, when my dad took me to my first major league baseball game. It was the Yankees against the Rangers. The…
Apr 14
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Class
The general feeling is that people with money are high class and people with no money are low class. This is broadly true, but there are exceptions. I…
Apr 10
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The Futility of Planning
Probably the best speech in movie history (aside from John Goodman’s rant about fuck you money in The Gambler) is The Joker’s peroration to Harvey Dent…
Apr 5
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Jared Dillian
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March 2024
Depression
Depression is the most common form of mental illness. Millions upon millions of people suffer from it. First, we must distinguish between bipolar…
Mar 31
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Jared Dillian
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Trauma
I will tell you something that is a fact: all the bad stuff that happens to us before the age of seven, all the trauma we experience as a child, becomes…
Mar 27
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Beauty
One of the best pieces of writing I have ever read was Mona Simpson’s eulogy of her brother, Steve Jobs, which was printed in the New York Times in…
Mar 21
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Leadership
Everyone wants to know what my leadership style is. My leadership style is to raise everyone’s stress level until they do what I say. Not far from the…
Mar 19
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February 2024
HIATUS
Dear WGGTB readers, I am going to take a break from the essays for a while. I have enough essays for a second book, and I need to include 10-20 more…
Feb 27
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Jared Dillian
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Faith and Finance
It is very fashionable to be a skeptic these days. I was first exposed to skepticism through the writings of Nassim Taleb, who talked about the great…
Feb 24
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Letters to My 22-Year-Old Self
In 1996, I was a walking sack of spermatozoa, a physical specimen who picked up heavy things and ran marathons—and wholly undereducated, from four years…
Feb 20
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