Author of a few books, @collabfund, director at Markel Group. Nice to see you.
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Joined April 2011
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The Psychology of Money Podcast
Mark Twain on relative wealth, the obsession with minimalism, worrying in your 20s, and the barbell approach to investing.
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We’re hiring an Investment Associate at @collabfund!
Looking for someone endlessly curious who loves talking to founders, has 37 tabs of new products open, and something always half-built in the terminal.
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Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) has stage 4 cancer and 4 kids under the age of 5.
I want to help him as much as possible, so I invited him on the podcast to talk about his work studying history’s greatest leaders and what it’s like getting told he’s going to die at 38.
He’s a good guy, a close friend, and one of my favorite podcasters.
His work has benefited millions of people all across the world.
Please watch this episode and see if you can help with medicine, introductions, or donations.
0:00 What Ben has learned from making How to Take Over the World and studying history’s greatest leaders.
55:51 Living like you're dying. Ben on facing cancer.
Craig and I talked to Matt Sonsini about philanthropy, raising capital, and how Silicon Valley has changed over the years.
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"Since $100 million in New York and 22 fish-hooks on the border of the Arctic Circle represent the same financial supremacy, a man in straitened circumstances is a fool to stay in New York when he can buy ten cents' worth of fish-hooks and emigrate."
- Mark Twain
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Here’s an interesting fact.
Morgan Housel threw out a third of The Psychology of Money while writing it.
He started with traditional long chapters (4k–6k words). It felt wrong, almost rambling, full of fluff. So he scrapped it and rewrote the book as 20 short, story-driven chapters in the style he’d already mastered online.
Every major U.S. publisher rejected it. A small U.K. house took it with a 5,000-copy first print run.
It went on to sell millions.
New book on Tom Brady:
"A common trait I’ve found among repeat champions is a prominent chip on their shoulder, from slights both real and imagined, often nurtured for decades. When what you seek is not wealth or fame but vindication, you can never get enough."
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The Psychology of Money Podcast
Part of why home prices are so high, and Yogi Berra's joke that "no one goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
Albert Einstein with the optimistic take on nuclear war - the last new technology threatening to wipe us out.
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One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.
The Psychology of Money Podcast
AI Optimism and the Agony of Waiting
Most forecasts are hyper-optimistic or hyper-pessimistic. Not enough attention to the possibility that the main outcome in 10 years is that all businesses are 20%-30% more productive and life goes on.
Good piece on the downside of meditation.
"The point of meditation was never merely to relax or just 'clear your mind' but to wholly rearrange one’s relationship to one’s thoughts. This might make sense for a Buddhist monk pursuing the great unbinding, but not for a random Brooklynite who just wants to be more productive at work."
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Will Durrant:
Psychology is a theory of human behavior.
Philosophy is an ideal of human behavior.
History is a record of human behavior.
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Household debt/GDP has plunged at the same time Government debt/GDP surged. On net, we're about where we were 20 years ago.
Good line: “The longer your holding period, the more chance that something you can’t forecast occurs.”
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