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Social Leverage Letter | Issue #8

Social Leverage Letter | Issue #8

A Little Serendipity, Information Overload, and the Rule of Three

Pete Weishaupt
October 24, 2021

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READING

The Spectator | Rory Sutherland

Rory writes about the value of salesmanship, something economists frequently discount, and leaving a little room in our lives for serendipity.

"An axiom of economics is that we all have stable, known preferences. But there’s a problem with this assumption — it’s rubbish. Often we can’t get what we want, so we settle for wanting what we can get..."

The problem with online property searches | The Spectator

In 1966, the legendary adman David Ogilvy set out to buy a home in France. He boarded a transatlantic liner to meet a French estate agent who had a perfect house waiting for him in Paris, but while still in mid-ocean he heard he had been gazumped. There were presumably other houses on sale in Paris ...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-problem-with-online-property-searches

LISTENING

Want-trepreneur | The Compound & Friends #20

Social Leverage co-founder and managing partner Howard Lindzon drops quite few gems here. Most interesting, the concept of information overload. According to Howard, yes, we're awash in information, but overload isn't the problem. It's filter failure. We need to adjust our filters rather than worry too much about the information barrage hitting most of us on a daily, if not hourly, basis.

Want-trepreneur

Listen to this episode from The Compound and Friends on Spotify. On this week's episode of The Compound & Friends, Michael Batnick, Howard Lindzon, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss private and public markets, trend following, having an edge, Robinhood, pandemic influenced businesses, envy and insecurity, the next wave of investors, and much more!This episode is brought to you by Direxion. Visit https://www.direxion.com/leveraged-etf-education for more information!Obviously, nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. See our disclosures here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3p18DYO8NgOAn77LAkJHvg

WATCHING

3 Ways to Express Your Thoughts So That Everyone Will Understand You

For reasons I don’t really know, our brains respond pretty well to things that come in threes. Problem, Solution, Impact. (Steve Jobs) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Eat, Pray, Love. It’s great for writing. It’s great for presentations. Hell, it’s probably even great for Tweeting.

Actor, writer, and director, Alan Alda (see what I did there?) sat down with Big Think to discuss his best tip, the rule of three.

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