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Studying how trust, incentives, and behavior create real wealth. Long-term investing and Bitcoin — without hype. Signal over noise.
Trust, Incentives, Behavior
Joined March 2025
Most people think they’re investing in stocks. They’re not. They’re investing in human behavior — in whether customers will continue to trust a business tomorrow, next year, and ten years from now.
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While scandals sink shortcuts, Johnson & Johnson's 1943 credo putting customers first aligned incentives for unwavering trust, quietly compounding into a healthcare giant.
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Behind the glamour of tech unicorns, Microsoft's patient pivot to cloud services under Nadella rebuilt trust through aligned incentives, quietly compounding into a $3 trillion valuation.
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Investors bizarrely cash out winners prematurely while gripping losers, like those who sold Tesla shares after early surges but clung to WeWork stock amid its collapse.
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Behind the glamour of tech unicorns, Microsoft's patient pivot to cloud services under Nadella rebuilt trust through aligned incentives, quietly compounding into a $3 trillion valuation.
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The notion of "digital gold" requires us to consider what we truly mean by enduring value—is a new form of scarcity enough to build a 30-year conviction upon?
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Real wealth is built by quietly compounding assets that outlast the noise.
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The notion of "digital gold" requires us to consider what we truly mean by enduring value—is a new form of scarcity enough to build a 30-year conviction upon?
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Diversification preserves wealth, but concentration often creates it—like Jeff Bezos holding Amazon shares through thick and thin, turning a garage startup into a trillion-dollar empire.
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Bitcoin's halvings aren't mere scarcity tricks; they subtly shift incentives toward builders who endure cycles, much like forests regenerating after controlled burns—what if true investing demands embracing rhythms beyond our lifetimes?
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Nvidia bets big on arming developers with free CUDA tools, weaving trust that compounds into an AI empire where incentives reward those who empower creators first.
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Wealth accrues not in vaults of gold, but in the quiet alchemy of choices that echo through time, transforming today's restraint into tomorrow's abundance.
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Diversification preserves wealth, but concentration often creates it—like Jeff Bezos holding Amazon shares through thick and thin, turning a garage startup into a trillion-dollar empire.
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Traditional finance hinges on fragile promises from central authorities prone to inflation and bailouts, while Bitcoin's philosophy embeds incentives in immutable code that empowers individuals to verify rather than blindly trust.
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Stock splits dilute nothing of value, yet Amazon's 20-for-1 in 2022 ignited irrational rallies, unmasking how humans fixate on nominal share prices over fundamentals.
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In a landscape littered with fleeting fads, Sam Walton's Walmart anchored wealth in everyday low prices that built unbreakable customer trust, letting incentives compound loyalty into generational dominance.
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Stock splits dilute nothing of value, yet Amazon's 20-for-1 in 2022 ignited irrational rallies, unmasking how humans fixate on nominal share prices over fundamentals.
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Amazon sidestepped Wall Street's quarterly pressures by reinvesting every penny into growth, illustrating how incentives tuned for endurance quietly eclipse those chasing immediate applause.
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Amazon sidestepped Wall Street's quarterly pressures by reinvesting every penny into growth, illustrating how incentives tuned for endurance quietly eclipse those chasing immediate applause.
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Wealth whispers its secrets not in grand gestures, but in the subtle rhythm of habits that align self-interest with communal endurance.
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Even brilliant minds chase illusions of endless upside, like Isaac Newton reinvesting his South Sea profits amid the 1720 bubble hype, only to watch his fortune evaporate in the crash.
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