Halloween Edition
Woooh! Happy Halloween. My wife’s school finished Halloween classes on Thursday, so I am enjoying not having to dress up any more. Tonight I shall be staying home and maybe doing some rowing. Wild times.
Very pleased to see one of my favourite Twitter trends is back: ＃地味ハロウイン (understated Halloween). Some of the costume ideas are genius.
If you are interested in the election, NihonPolitics is a good source of information in English.
The Forum
The Forum is doing well (16,795 posts to date). Here are the latest active threads:
RetireJapan Online Conference (save the date)
The inaugural RetireJapan online conference will be held on Labor Thanksgiving Day (November 23rd) from 10:00 to 16:00, with a break 12:00-13:00. It will be free and held through Zoom. More details very soon! Recordings will be made available for people that can’t make it on the day (where possible) but do come and join us if you can.
This week’s books
No new books this week. Still enjoying The Education of a Value Investor and Let My People Go Surfing. Got a bunch of books to read next too, including The Box, Stretching Scientifically, and Four Thousand Weeks.
This week’s links
- Good to remind myself of this periodically: Warren Buffett: “Really Successful People Say No To Almost Everything”
- This is what enabled the Derek Sivers book giveaway this week: Considerate book pricing
- I love this post about small businesses: This Was The (Craziest) But Best Decision We Ever Made
- Enjoyed this recap. Might have to go and read the book again! Revisiting “The 4-Hour Workweek”
- If you haven’t subscribed to Sean’s newsletter yet, what has taken you so long: Restless 11 – The Backyard Adventurer, Now, Some Distant Memory, and 4000 Weeks
- Really enjoyed this short documentary from 1965: Judoka
- Just buy the index: The 10 Most Dangerous Words in Investing
- This TED talk is good: Dealing with uncertainty
- Really disturbing article (Ocean Cleanup is one of my monthly donation charities this year): How to fight ocean plastic
What do you think? Anything good in there?
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Can’t remember which link it was, so I can’t refer to it by number. But something in the list made me think of the quote, “If you want to see the most in the shortest distance, walk.”