Getting Back to My Blog

After some of the insightful readings that I got done earlier this week, I decided to pick up this blog. Wanting to record this, I wanted to use this very first blog in two years to record my incentives to restart my blogs.

To get started with, there are a few readings that I got done that made me think getting writing stuff started would be something that is significantly helpful.

1. Howard Marks,
   • I’ve long been following Howard’s Memos and am always curious about how smart people like him are able to come up with these innovative ideas and able to make them so clear and understandable to the audience, wanting to get as smart one day.
   • This week, I went through one of his podcasts where he talked about
     • how he was able to maintain the hobby of writing and training himself being able to present complex ideas in clear and accessible language that can help engage and delight your audience
     • how this quality work can make an impact on his ideas.
2. George Soros
   • Started reading his book The Crash of 2008 & What It Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets per Point 72 Academy’s book list recommended
   • He mentioned that serious studies could help him in his investment decisions

My takes

1. I basically see this hobby of blogging being able to help me get started to thinking logistically
   • According to my traditional Chinese educational background, I always see myself as someone who is taking ideas instead of someone coming up with innovative opinions no whether on investment stuff or social justice affairs
   • Going deeper into the reasons, I’m finding myself lacking the ability to come up with complex logical ideas and convey them, while this is something super important in the world of business and investment.
   • I see writing something about myself as a perfect way to train myself on this.
2. I see this as a good way to help me to take notes
   • I recently self-identified myself as a financial nerd, loving reading stuff and practicing my financial modeling.
   • Finding a place to record all of my takes from different books seems to be more important.
   • I see blogging something helping myself releaseing the computing power of my brain through putting the notes and organizing them on a blog.
   • What is even better, I might be able to create a chronological archive seeing how my readings and takes evolved if I’m able to keep this blogging thing going.
3. Finally, I guess this could be a good way to help me think logically
   • Getting back to the “computing power” of my brain thing
     • I’m always someone doubting if I’m someone with ADHD
     • It is exhausting keeping everything I see, think, and want to memorize in my mind logically
   • As writing is something that I would be able to record everything on the page and being able to organize them logically, I believe this is something that can help me develop this ability to think logically
   • As my readings and my ability to think evolve, I might be able to check previous archives in this blog easily, instead of exhaustingly trying to retrieve something from my mind using my brain’s limited computing power.

So here I wanted to get this as a good point to restart my investment and social justice blog, recording my notes and thoughts on the readings that I’ve done recently.

Jerry Oct 18th, 2024