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On improving writing:
Mimic, Then Innovate
Pick a writer you love, copy a paragraph of theirs by hand, then rewrite it in your own voice. It’s like tracing to learn drawing—you’ll start to feel their rhythm and eventually find yours.
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Peter Lynch returned 29% a year running Fidelity's Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990, nearly double the S&P 500.
His simple rule for valuing a stock: "The p/e ratio of any company that's fairly priced will equal its growth rate."
Divide the P/E by the growth rate and you get the PEG ratio. Under 1 means the stock is cheap relative to its growth.
Here are 10 popular stocks with a PEG under 1 right now:
1. $NVDA - Nvidia
PEG ratio: 0.33
Data center revenue grew 117% to $89B last quarter, and Nvidia guided to $108B of total revenue for fiscal Q3 as Vera Rubin ramps into full production. It reports on November 17.
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Because nothing says "lunchtime fun" to kids like an 18th century pioneer going to town on indigenous people with the butt end of his rifle.
He lay there battened down in the midst of a small devastation, and felt secretly glad he had not to go on deck.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
He felt angry with the brutal tumult of earth and sky for taking him unawares and checking unfairly a generous readiness for narrow escapes.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Jim thought it a pitiful display of vanity. The gale had ministered to a heroism as spurious as its own pretence of terror.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Jim’s father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing the ease of mind of those whom an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Jim had always good wages and as much humouring as would have bought the fidelity of a fiend.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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AI is an intelligence lever. Meaning the smarter you are, the smarter it makes you.
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
ARABY. James Joyce
What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days.
ARABY. James Joyce
I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
ARABY. James Joyce
Hardly had the last company turned into the courtyard of the Keller than great masses, amid deafening cries, tried to crowd in after us.
He did not relax one hair’s breadth, but, all the force of all his blood exulting in his thrust, he shoved back the head of the other man, till there was a little “cluck” and a crunching sensation.
The Prussian Officer. D.H. Lawrence
But it was only the outside of the orderly’s body that was obeying so humbly and mechanically. Inside had gradually accumulated a core into which all the energy of that young life was compact and concentrated.
The Prussian Officer. DH Lawrence
He got to bed at last, and slept inert, relaxed, in a sleep that was rather stupor than slumber, a dead night of stupefaction shot through with gleams of anguish.
The Prussian Officer. D.H. Lawrence