In my book Breaking out of Homeostasis, I have an early chapter titled “My Dark Prediction of the Future”.
This article builds off that.Continue Reading…
December 18, 2017 11 Comments
December 12, 2017 13 Comments
14 Differences Between Homeostasis Dwellers and Homeostasis Breakers
“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.”
—Abraham Maslow
Throughout history, starting with Socrates and Plato, many thinkers have wondered why most people are so “primitive,”Continue Reading…
December 11, 2017 21 Comments
Finally: Breaking out of Homeostasis (BOOH) Completed
I wrote the first version of Breaking out of Homeostasis fast. Because I was like a man possessed. And while I did succeed in getting many important ideas across, I was not satisfied with the result.
When I rewrote the book, there were 3 elements I wanted to work on:Continue Reading…
December 7, 2017 30 Comments
BOOH TOC: Foreword by European Hedge Fund Manager of the Decade
Hey friend,
Breaking out of Homeostasis will be released on Monday 11/12 next week.
It is 300 pages long (was originally 700!)Continue Reading…
August 10, 2017 22 Comments
Interview with Martin Sandquist, Billionaire Lynx-Founder and Finance Innovator
[Ludvig | Martin | Mikael]
For the first time, the elusive Martin Sandquist gives an interview.
Martin Sandquist is the founder of Lynx Asset Management. Lynx is one of the most successful hedge funds in Europe. They’re classified as a CTA and have 70 employees. Continue Reading…
July 24, 2017 24 Comments
Higher Order Thinking: Your Ticket to the Cognitive Elite
If being manipulated by horoscopes, fortune-telling, cold-reading, conspiracy theories, and comforting beliefs constitute the most primitive aspects of the neocortex’s craving for truth (and are sure-shot symptoms of being a Homeostasis Dweller), what would be the opposite?
—Higher order thinking.
Higher order thinking is the most intellectually sophisticated form of using the neocortex’s predictive abilities. Those who wish to become elite thinkers must master it.Continue Reading…
May 2, 2017 36 Comments
19 Attributes of Great Men
From my commonplace:
“I went on troubling myself about general
ideas until I learnt to understand the particular achievements of the best men.”
–Goethe
Trouble yourself about this.
1) Prodigious memory.Continue Reading…
January 14, 2017 49 Comments
Insightful comment
Matt