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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A few questions: Which of my strongest beliefs are formed on second-hand information vs. first-hand experience? If I could not compare myself to anyone else, how would I define a good life? A dozen more: collabfund.com/blog/a-few-q...

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A Few Questions

Which of my strongest beliefs are formed on second-hand information vs.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"There are times when chasing the things money can buy, one loses sight of the things which money can't buy and are usually free." world.hey.com/davidsenra/t...

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The score card after Buffett announces he's stepping down this year: 5,502,284% for Berkshire vs 39,054% in the S&P 500. I forget who pointed this out but Berkshire could fall 99% and he'd still have outperformed over his career.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I wrote a new book: The Art of Spending Money Out October 7th. I don't lecture you how to spend, because everyone is different. This book is about: -Attention -Envy -Social aspiration -Comfort -Happiness -Regret -Much more Pre-order here: www.morganhousel.com/aosm

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime." -Taleb

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Godspeed to the parents who will spend the next 12 hours assembling toys.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” -- Christopher Morley

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

"A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others." @kevinkelly.bsky.social

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ernest Hemingway said F. Scott Fitzgerald had a "romantic awe of [the rich] ... He thought they were a special glamorous race and when he found they weren’t it wrecked him as much as any other thing that wrecked him."

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Stigler’s law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Coined by University of Chicago statistician Stephen Stigler who, for consistency, says he stole it from Robert Merton. Happens because the best story, not necessarily the right idea, gets people's attention.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Our internet has been out for 7 days (monster storm) so I got a Starlink and it's one of the most impressive products I've ever used.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Here's a podcast I did with Shane Battier, Alex Smith, and Ravi Gupta -- one of my favorite new pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Morgan Housel: The Cost of Ego

Podcast Episode · Glue Guys · 11/21/2024 · 1h 10m

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Welcome to the least productive week of the year.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Feels good here. Like Twitter in 2010.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

You don’t have to know exactly what the future holds to know that some people will handle it better than others.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Podcast: Why pessimism sounds smart. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2lqBPtQDJO…

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 15/05/2023

Great clip on Jerry Seinfeld’s decision to end his show. “A small amount of ‘too much’ changes the whole feeling about it. I wanted to end with a feeling of, ‘It was never bad.’” youtu.be/sk6O1pCXFno

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

When two good things mix into something dangerous. "Take patience and confidence. They both sound great. But mixed together they often form stubbornness, which is a disaster." collabfund.com/blog/vicious-traps

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Vicious Traps

There are times in nature when two plus two equals ten – when two little things combine to form one…

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Reminder that no matter how the economy is performing there will always be a loud group of people saying: - Big recession around the corner - Hyperinflation imminent - The dollar is doomed - The Fed broke everything - Stocks are overvalued Been like that for 100+ years.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 03/05/2023

The fintwit cluster is starting to...cluster.

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Morgan Housel @morganhousel.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

A lot of people like making money more than they enjoy having money. The change, not the accumulated amount, is the thrill.

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