Episode description
Episode description
How a few high-impact successes drive up overall average outcomes in investing, business, and creative projects. How to harness positive skewness using a barbell approach. Learn when to mitigate risks and when to embrace them.
Topics covered include:
- What is positive skewness and how does it manifest in investing, business and creative endeavors
- How power laws and the 80/20 rule work
- Why we shouldn't beat ourselves up if we aren't incredibly successful
- When should we reduce positive skewness and when should we embrace it
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Show Notes
Long-Horizon Stock Returns Are Positively Skewed by Adam Farago and Erik Hjalmarsson—SSRN
Wealth Creation in the U.S. Public Stock Markets 1926 to 2019 by Hendrik Bessembinder—SSRN
The Coffee Can portfolio by Robert G. Kirby—csinvesting
Active vs Passive Investing U.S. Barometer Report—Morningstar
Table 7. Survival of private sector establishments by opening year—U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
How Many Podcasts Are There? (New 2024 Data) by Josh Howarth—Exploding Topics
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