The Monday Read

Road to Damascus edition

This week’s Monday Read comes to you from Tallinn Airport, where I am killing time (seizing the moment?) before flying back home via HEL (sinki) and Nagoya.

I spent the last six days at a jiu-jitsu training camp, and my mind was blown by meeting a guy called Priit Mihkelson. His approach to jiu-jitsu is completely revolutionary, and I get the feeling he’s going to be very famous and very successful. It’s a bit like meeting Steve Jobs when he was building computers in a garage before anyone knew who he was 😉

After his classes I had to go and sit down by myself for a bit to think about the content. In a way they kind of broke my mind a little. It was a real revelation. I hope to spend a lot more time with Priit in the future before he gets too famous.

And this is also a lesson. I would like to be more like that. Being excellent in some way. Something to work on over the next few years.

Here are this week’s links

  1. I would love to see this in Sendai too -permanently: Edinburgh closes roads in city centre to cut air pollution
  2. A beginners’ guide: Understanding Bond Index Funds
  3. Still no meaningful action from governments: Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
  4. No need to play games. Just save and invest a little every month, and you’ll be fine: Investing Lessons from the Reigning Jeopardy Champ
  5. Vanguard is cutting ETF fees: バンガードETF®経費率改定のお知らせ（米国時間4月26日付）
  6. Start as soon as you can: How Compounding Works in the Stock Market
  7. Choose alive time: Will You Choose Alive Time or Dead Time?
  8. What’s the worst thing that could happen? Why I’m saving and investing for the disaster to come
  9. Good. Japan’s labor shortage eats away at back-breaking work culture
  10. The latest Osaka housebuilding project blog post
  11. Come up with objections: Our Shared Ongoing Battle To Not Buy A Tesla
  12. Money ain’t all that: Eight Questions
  13. How confident are you? Degrees of Confidence
  14. Which do you choose? Financial superpowers
  15. Great film: Why You’ll Never Invest in the Next Big Short
  16. Word. Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status
  17. Big problem in Japan: Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?

What do you think? Anything good in there?

One Response

  1. No. 3 Seems Governments could care less… Hopefully a major recession will slow the destruction to the environment … According to the link below business as usual is unlikely to continue for much longer…