Marketing will be like sex

In the future, marketing will be like sex: Only the losers pay for it

Fast Company magazine, December 2010
Read More

We are still in a Bear Market



http://allstarcharts.com/the-little-book-of-stock-market-cycles/

PS I am happy that we are in a 12 year Bear market. It must come to an end sooner or later . If i keep my powder dry i might have a easier life going forward making real money from the markets again.
Read More

Buying up rivals softens competition and enables firms to charge more.



http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21565609-economies-scale-run-out-certain-point-largest-firms-america-may-be


PS One of the best business books i ever read is How to be a Billionaire by Martin S. Fridson. In this book from 2001 Martin goes through the top people on the rich list. From Bill gates and Sam Walton until John D. Rockefeller and try to capture what they did to be there. One of the themes is , kill the competition. He claims if you are in a very competitive market is very difficult to make serious money. 

To be number one is a very good position to be.  Consolidation works. The idea of Jack Welch that GE  will only compete in markets where they are nº1 or nº2 makes sense.
Read More

Love is rational after all

Since our parents inevitably made errors in their courtships, we are unlikely to be ideally balanced ourselves. We have typically come out too tall or too short, too masculine or too feminine; our noses are large, our chins small. If such imbalances were allowed to persist, or were aggravated, the human race would, within a short time, founder in oddity.The will-to-life must therefore push us towards people who can, on account of their imperfections, cancel out our own (a large nose combined with a button nose promises a perfect nose). Schopenhauer liked predicting pathways of attraction. Short women will fall in love with tall men, but rarely will you see tall men go for tall women (they unconsciously fear the production of giants). Feminine men will often be drawn to boyish women with short hair.

Alan de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
Read More

Diet day 63

71,8 kg, 9,7% and 20,8 BMI
yesterday was a Holliday in Portugal and i did a 5 hour bike ride in the early morning
so i had to eat a lot before and during the race
I drank for breakfast
1 banana 100
some greens 50
Some Iswari Açai from Brasil
Some chia seeds
Some lemon juice 100
During the race i ate 3 home made bars 300 
Drank Green tea with IswariAçai and Agave 100
Eat 4 dates 250 and 4 Dry Figs 200
Burned 3000 calories
Al lunch i ate a big portion of Lentils 200
Big Green salad 200
Veggie Soup 200
Ate some Brazilian 2 hour after lunch 100
Dinner
Soup 200
Green Salad with Mushrooms, Ginger, Rúcula, Tomato, spinach and lettuce 200
Some Black Beans 200


Total in 2400
Read More

2 above 2007 peak


  • From Gavekal research
Read More

Diet day 61

71,2 kg, 11% fat and 20,6 BMI
yesterday i ate

2 Apples 160

a bit of spirullin Algae
a bit of chlorella Algae
a bit of cinnamon
Some Spinaches 40 i put all in the mixer for breakfast

1 Orange at 10 am 50
1 Grilled Fish called Pampo in Portuguese 200. It's a deep sea fish i believe
a big portion of Greens 50
3 glasses of Red Wine 150
1 muesli bar 1 hour after lunch 50
1h30 Spinning class at the end of the day 1100 calories off
For dinner 1 big eggplant grilled with Tomato 100
1 big plate of Lentils 200
Some ISWAR Hemp seeds 50 
Some ISWARI Chlorella Powder 20
3 Brazilian Nuts before bed 120

Total in 1090
Read More
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)