Saturday, June 29, 2019

Further Insights into Astrea IV and Astrea V bonds.

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I'm a little slow to the Astrea IV and Astrea V bonds issue but I think I can add something that to the excellent articles that are alre...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

The Model Thinker #24 - Mechanism Design.

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This chapter focuses on designing political and economic institutions. I will shoehorn this chapter into a discussion about the relative s...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Thoughts on my Australian Trip.

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I just wanted to round up my trip to Brisbane and the Gold Coast. First of all, no one can speak with much authority having gone on a 7 ...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

More insights from attending real estate seminar previews

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I'm not a saint. To become a good trainer I do attend previews from other trainers. When I do attend these previews, I have to with ho...
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Monday, June 17, 2019

Letter to Batch 5 of the Early Retirement Masterclass.

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It's been a hectic week and I have not been updating this blog. For the past two days I have been running Batch 5 of the Early Retirem...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The Model Thinker #23 - Collective Action Models

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Where situations involve a misalignment between self-interest and collective interest, we can use collective action models. In a collect...
Saturday, June 08, 2019

Early Retirement as a Religious Experience

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Mark Manson's latest masterpiece Everything is F**cked is a work of a genius. It stylishly blends the latest insights in psychology w...
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Tuesday, June 04, 2019

The Model Thinker #22 - Models of Cooperation

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Models of Cooperation can be used to allow us to think about the shenanigans in the insurance industry, but first let's talk about how...
Friday, May 31, 2019

What do they really teach you in Real Estate Seminars ?

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For a trainer, I am actually pretty noob when it comes to attending other training seminars previews. But to improve on my own prese...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Model Thinker #21 : Game Theory Models Times Three

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This chapter is about game theory where models describe a situation of zero sum games. I don't want to get into a discussion on zero ...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

First World Problems #2

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I'm not really in a mood to blog this week so I'll just keep today's article short and sweet just to update everyone on my attem...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

The Model Thinker #20 : Spatial and Hedonic Choice models

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This article is a more detailed way to look at the statement that "Price is what you pay, value is what you get." What models ...
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Sunday, May 19, 2019

First World Problems

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Sometimes I stir a lot of shit on weekends. The topics that blog readers get anxious about include topics on dating Singapore women, dis...
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Thursday, May 16, 2019

What is your Return on Luck (ROL) ?

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If you've been financially independent for a while, you will notice that the blogosphere and social media will be very eager to discou...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

The Model Thinker #19 : Threshold Models with Feedbacks

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Sometimes it helps to go granular and model something as an agent instead of system dynamics models. So this means that instead of m...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

What I learned from observing Financial Advisors

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In every preview, my colleagues are always able to spot who the Financial Advisor is in a room full of potential students for my course....
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Tuesday, May 07, 2019

The Model Thinker #18 : Systems Dynamics Models.

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Systems Dynamics models are so useful that I have decided to come up with my own spin on why it is so powerful. A systems dynamics model a...
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Sunday, May 05, 2019

Why Singapore Women scare Frugal Millenial Guys.

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This week I had an interesting chat with some Millenials on their fears. Some of these guys are familiar with my story and they are awar...
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Thursday, May 02, 2019

Personal Musings on the Imposter Syndrome...

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This last month was the month I've met an important milestone. Last month was the month when my earnings post law school started to ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

The Model Thinker #16 : Markov Models

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Markov models capture systems that transition probabilistically between a finite set of states. One application in finance are Bond cre...