http://bjlkeng.github.io/enTue, 10 Mar 2026 20:54:58 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/common-sense-and-investing/Brian Keng<div><p><strong>Preface</strong>: <em>Second post and I'm already off topic according to my subtitle. I do have another post that is more topic appropriate but it's been pretty hectic so I haven't had time to finish it. Although, investing is definitely a kind of technical topic involving data and numbers, so one could argue it is still on topic. And argue I shall! Enjoy!</em></p> <p>A lot of smart people I meet frequently mention that they have no clue about investing or other related financial matters. They're quite right that modern finance can get complicated really fast such as <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model">option pricing models</a> (that require differential equations and other such complicated maths) but as in most things though, a little common sense goes a long way. So I want to share an analogy that I think will help people understand a rational way to invest <em>i.e.</em> value investing. In particular, the discussion will be geared towards investing in publicly traded stocks but the general idea applies to most asset classes.</p> <p><a href="http://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/common-sense-and-investing/">Read more…</a> (7 min remaining to read)</p></div>common senseinvestinghttp://bjlkeng.github.io/posts/common-sense-and-investing/Sun, 30 Aug 2015 14:44:22 GMT