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Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal. He is a two-time winner of the Best...

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal.

He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.

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Today, we’re breaking down Markel. Markel is an insurance and investing business. It shares the same operating structure as Berkshire Hathaway in that it uses insurance underwriting profits to fund an investing portfolio that includes both minority and controlling interests in public and private bus
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Morgan Housel 8d

Excellent podcast about Markel. It's such a cool company.

The founder of Lux Capital discusses entropy's role in venture capital, the importance of nuclear energy, and Charlie Munger.
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Morgan Housel 1mos

This is a great interview with @wolfejosh.

This week, we are replaying one of favorite episodes from Season 1. Due to the complexities that come with the upcoming Q4 earning reporting season, we needed to take a week off between new episodes. However, we will return the week after with a new interview with the CEO of an $800 million dollar m
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Morgan Housel 3mos

A great podcast with Tom Gayner of Markel. Covid exposed correlations that were so hard to seeing coming:

Mark Twain is a documentary film on the life of Mark Twain also known as Samuel Clements produced by Ken Burns in 2001. Burns captures both the public and private persona of Mark Twain from his birth to his death. The film was narrated by Keith David and the voice of Mark Twain was provided by Kevin
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Morgan Housel 4mos

The Ken Burns documentary on Twain is very, very good.

As the head of General Electric, he fired people in vast numbers and turned the manufacturing behemoth into a financial house of cards. Why was he so revered?
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Morgan Housel 4mos

An interesting part in this @Gladwell piece on Jack Welch.

This is going to be an uncharacteristic departure for me. This story is deeply personal, for our family, and for our oldest son in particular.
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Morgan Housel 6mos

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Explore Woodstock 99, a three-day music festival promoted to echo unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert but instead devolved into riots, looting and sexual assaults.
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Morgan Housel 7mos

The Woodstock '99 documentary on Netflix is great. Insane event and lots of 90s nostalgia.

Since social media influencer Kyla Scanlon coined the term “vibecession,” she has experienced all sorts of feedback from TikTok users and economists alike. I sat down with her to chat about algorithms, markets and more on Twitter Spaces. Below is an edited transcript of our discussion.
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Morgan Housel 7mos

Good stuff with @kylascan and @conorsen.

On finding meaning and balance in our work lives
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Morgan Housel 8mos

Great piece.

Soul in the Game is a book of inspiring stories and hard-won lessons on how to live a meaningful life, crafted by investor and writer Vitaliy Katsenelson. Drawing from the lives of classical composers, ancient Stoics, and contemporary thinkers, Katsenelson weaves together a tapestry of practic
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Morgan Housel 8mos

Really enjoyed @vitaliyk's new book.

In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first ma
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Morgan Housel 9mos

Great book.

We’re an island of misfit toys with big-brained Michael Lewis (author of books such as Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game and The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine). Michael teaches us how different objects drift at sea, Jason pitches him a book idea, Sean learns the importance of the
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Morgan Housel 11mos

Excellent podcast with Michael Lewis:

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