Before You Fly The Nest: Advice for kids heading to college
ET contributor Brent Donnelly went out and asked some people he respects what advice they would give kids heading off to college. Here's what he found…
Tag: Life/Career Advice
How to Succeed as a Sell Side Trader
ET contributor Brent Donnelly has some advice that's ostensibly for sell-side traders, but is actually for everyone in markets. And everyone who isn't…
Money Can Buy Happiness (in variable and diminishing quantities)
What does your money/happiness curve look like? Is it curved or linear? Does it flatline somewhere? If so, where?
There's the game of trading and the…
25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life
The social rewards that come from imitating others feel good, but they come at a high price.
Here are 25 Anti-Mimetic ideas that can help us craft a…
Starry Eyes and Starry Skies
The student loan crisis is a Big Deal. And it is only a part of a Bigger Deal: the Myth of College.
This issue will be front-and-center in the upcom…
The Ministry of Rites and the Compassionate Man
"Oh, little Jimmy is going to 20-Years-Ago-This-Was-A-Second-Rate-University? I hear really good things about that school. Congratulations!"
"Thanks!…
In Praise of Work
The problem isn't that we derive too much of our worth and value from work. The problem is that our jobs are becoming increasingly abstracted from wor…
We Had The Same Crazy Idea
It is a frustrating truth that good - even great - investors rarely know exactly what it is that makes them good. And so the inevitable guilty pleasur…
Oh, hell, Martha, go ahead and burn yourself if you want to.
I can't advise you on the Answers. I won't advise you on the Answers. But I will advise you on the Process. Because that's what we do for our fellow p…
Investment Diligence and the Cornelius Effect
Nobody likes to admit it, but the investment industry hires and invests with the smartest-seeming people that seem sufficiently likable. And it doesn'…
Dogs, Dog Food, and the Curse of Some Talent
The thing is, Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it may be, ability don't last. You came close but you never made it. And if you were go…
Mental Toughness!
Investing requires mental toughness, but it doesn’t require us to pretend that we — or our colleagues — are invincible. More often, it instead r…
Too Clever By Half
The inevitable result of financial innovation gone awry, which it ALWAYS does, is that it ALWAYS ends up empowering the State. When too clever by half…
Chili P is My Signature: Things that Don’t Matter #5
The second moral license from a wise emphasis on passive investing is spending inordinate amounts of time on tilts, trades and tactical ideas that wil…
You Had One Job
Every dog needs a job, and every investment does, too. No single dog can be all things to all people, and neither can a single investment. Nor can any…