Power Laws rule the world. I take that seriously.
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23 Jun 2020
Good screen for high-quality, enduring thinking:
Does the thinker *obsessively* love and pursue truth?
Above their ego? Above what they *want* to be true?
Are they intrinsically motivated by understanding reality *as it really is*, or do they prioritize other things?
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May 30
"If plastic flowers were indistinguishable from real flowers, would you give them to someone on a first date?"
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May 29
Freedom and choice are fundamental to achieving the best outcomes. Rooting for @Primer and all others supporting freedom and creating high-quality choices for education.
30 years ago my mom founded one of the first microschools in Florida.
Gov. @JebBush fought the early, contrarian battles to unlock that education for our family and millions of others.
Quite a full-circle moment to sit down and discuss the state of US K-12 together:
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May 4
Gone were the movies of Jamie Lee Curtis seducing Charlie Munger into buying internet stocks and Warren Buffett caddying for Tiger Woods. Gone was the consumption of Cherry Coke and Peanut Brittle (though both products were on the dais in their honor). Gone were the voluminous questions from eager youngsters asking for life advice.
Last weekend Woodstock for Capitalists had its first new host in 60 years. Greg Abel had to follow the toughest act to follow in business. Link in comments.
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Feb 7
Well said.
Well-worth a read.
"The middle is still where the complications live, where the position is ambiguous and the thing no one modeled happens and you have to play the board as it is."
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Jan 16
We are now living through a dramatic collapse in the cost to get decent answers to complex questions.
Jan 16
We are fortunate to live in the time that we do. Technologies of ambition are widespread, cognitive leverage is at an all-time high, and the potential returns on high-quality thought and execution are enormous. I am rather excited about this.
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John Candeto retweeted
22 Jun 2020
Video already dominates entertainment media. Video will eventually dominate all media. 1/12
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11 Nov 2025
5yo just came home with her first lightsaber.
Big day for me.
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11 Nov 2025
TSA Agent, to 8yo: Do you have anything in your pockets?
8yo: No. Not even dynamite.
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John Candeto retweeted
1 Nov 2025
Respect Tradition and Support Innovation.
Listen to the full episode on Power Laws with all four AoQ hosts here: theartofquality.co/quality-x…
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16 Sep 2025
"Seriousness is not a virtue. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light."
Man that's good.
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5 Sep 2025
"The best human work is the work that only humans can do: work that is relational, and work that is creative. Everything that is not connection, creation, or curation (and their required ingredients e.g. character, wisdom, judgement) will eventually recede into the background."
5 Sep 2025
For all the joys found pursuing great, big, beautiful tomorrows, abstract ideas of progress do not get much attention from one’s death bed.
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4 Sep 2025
8yo: Why do you guys keep saying Power Law?!? Is that an important word to you?
Big moment.
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4 Sep 2025
5yo overhearing my explanation: “I WANT A POWER LAW!”
It’s a great day for us.
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31 Aug 2025
This was such a fun episode. It is incredible that no one has created a catalog of the world's oldest businesses. Grateful @EricMarkowitz is doing so and sharing the wisdom he is collecting along the way.
31 Aug 2025
The Glassblower Story
@EricMarkowitz shares his “notes from the field,” as he travels the world investigating why a rare few companies OUTLAST all others.
Full episode: theartofquality.co/investing…
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21 Aug 2025
Too kind. Thank you @EricMarkowitz! This was fun and a good short summary of what I've been thinking through.
21 Aug 2025
Why do 1% of your decisions bring you 99% of your joy?
Why do a few investments drive nearly all your returns?
Why do a few people throughout the centuries—from Lincoln to Napoleon—shape the course of history?
These are power laws.
My good friend @johncandeto has been obsessing over these questions: where do power laws actually show up? How do we recognize them?
And importantly, how do we harness their potential when we notice them?
We dug into his ideas this week in @bigthink for my Long Game column:
bigthink.com/the-long-game/t…
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10 Aug 2025
Just astounding.
13 Aug 2020
This extract from a 1944 OSS (predecessor to the CIA) handbook on infiltrating and disrupting organizations describes...the way many organizations operate. Amazing.
Source: cia.gov/news-information/fea…
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19 Jul 2025
Mr. Rogers was much closer to reality than the fathers of scientific management.
19 Jul 2025
Time is *the* variable that dominates all others. It is the best filter for Quality with a capital-Q. It is the only thing we cannot get more of. And we don't even know how much of it we have.
phronesisfund.substack.com/p…
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