Continuing with my new protocol, here I’m going to share content I consumed and learned from. This week, I spent time doing general learning about a variety of topics.

What I consumed this week and what I learned from it:

• 300 years of Americans getting rich – YouTube interview with Joseph Moore. Moore gives a historical perspective on how Americans built wealth, including investing in the stock market, and how indexing changed the stock market. His take on bonds beating stocks for long periods made me want to learn more about bond history. His views on real estate being a path to building a modest fortune but a terrible way to make a massive fortune stuck with me. He said that real estate has not always gone up (inflation-adjusted) for most of American history and that elevated inflation and the ability to purchase using mostly debt changed this. I loved his views on how the best way to build wealth is to solve other people’s problems, take more risks, and relocate to chase opportunity. Great interview, and I’m buying the book he wrote on this topic.
• Why blogs are dying – An interesting blog post on why the top 100 once-successful blogs are dying. Only 21 of these sites continue to grow, and the vast majority have lost 85% of their traffic. My takeaway is that in the age of AI, blogs where people document what they did to solve problems (i.e., their firsthand experiences) have moats and are performing the best. The days of getting traffic by answering questions on blog posts are over because AI can quickly summarize this kind of information.

That’s what I learned from what I consumed last week.