PSB Latticework: On Demographics and Retirement

An updated, reorganized Latticework is now available, which in technical speak provides access to the deep structure of the blog and which, for us laymen, is a way of recycling old content. 

One of the more immediately relevant sections is On Demographics and Retirement, a ramble around the less than salubrious environs of our dangerously lax attitude to our later years.

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PSB Latticework: On Investing Psychology and Emotion

An updated, reorganized Latticework is now available, which in technical speak provides access to the deep structure of the blog and which, for us laymen, is a way of recycling old content. 

The single largest theme is On Investing Psychology and Emotion, a varied grab-bag of articles loosely arrayed around how our psychology interacts with financial transactions and causes havoc all round.

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Mental Models, Arrayed on Charlie Munger’s Latticework

Old Ideas, New Context

One of the origins of this e-rag was the idea that investors might be able to learn something from the vast array of information in the world not commonly presented to them in a useful form. Much of this information isn’t about investing, although it can often be usefully related to it.

This idea, of course, isn't new. It’s nothing more than a slightly updated take on an idea which will never get old: Charlie Munger’s concept of arraying knowledge on a latticework of mental models. However, it’s one thing to produce individual ideas, as we do here, it’s quite another to put them all together and make them usable.

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