Power Law in Dating

I believe most of us heard friends around saying “Date multiple girls/guys simultaneously, distribute the risk, so to find the Mr or Miss Right”. Make it a portfolio, just like your investment brokers usually say. However, it maybe wrong.

0.01% of Google is probably worth a lot, lot more (35 million dollars) than 100% of a startup that you’ll start. And most startups fail, in which case you’ll own 100% of nothing.

Said Peter Thiel in the book “Zero to One”. Our focus is to find the right girl, rather than seeing a pool of girls and hope the right one is in there.

Imitating Martin Jacobson

It was a 45-player poker tournament; everybody started with 1500 chips. After making a couple of silly misread to the opponents, I dropped to the shortest stack with less than 30 chips in my hand at the very early stage (the red line).

What would Martin Jacobson do? I asked myself.

LIFE

 

It was the last weekend of 2014. I opened my eyes, laid back a bit in bed because of the freezing winter, had 2 pieces of toast with a glass of milk tea, packed the gym gear, I left home. Reached Roppongi Hills, 10 mins for the bus to come, I had a full bag of dirty shirts to drop to the cleaning. That day was chilly.

LOUIS VUITTON was right in front of me, there was also a new BMW displayed. Suddenly I heard a loud engine passing behind. It was a sharp red Lamborghini.

I believe there is a much bigger mission in life.

Lifetime

Life is like a poker tournament. You would never have good cards in every single hand. So the philosophy is around how to deal with bad times so to minimize your loss; while maximizing your profit when good times come.

If the red line represents anybody’s lifetime and suppose this guy lived to 100 years old (rightmost of the line). It is indeed a pretty fruitful life. He was outstanding among his peers at 25 years old. Although the downturn at around 40 and 75 years old, he managed to quickly get up, learn his lesson, and shine again.

ポーカー＆ビジネス戦略

2013年の夏頃でしたね。同僚とビジネスアイデアの雑談したら、「ザッポス伝説」という本をお勧めされました。最初は軽い気持ちで読んでみましたが、結局殿堂入りになりました。英語版はCEO本人が書いたのでお勧めです。

Tony Hsieh（トニー・シェイ）はハーバード大学卒で、スタートアップした会社を数百万ドルでマイクロソフトに売却して、ザッポスのCEOになりました。詳しい話はここでスキップしますが、結構面白くて読んでみてください。彼に影響され、ポーカー研究し始めました。ビジネス戦略をかけて、ポーカーのあまり知られていない一面をシェアしたいと思います。

3 Ways To Optimize Your Memory

Everybody is capable to memorize. And, it is essential. Many say in the world of logics you don’t have to remember; I say, you still have to memorize E=mc² before applying. You think you are not good at memorizing things? I think it is just either you didn’t make effort, or you don’t know the tricks. The former has no value for discussion hence I want to share about the latter. Most of all, this is fun.

Forget The Goal & Be Happy

Recently I have come across two interesting articles: Yes, You Can Be Happy While Pushing Yourself to Success, and Forget Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. It says, we should focus on the system (the process) rather than the goal. Once you have the plan layout and the habit built, forget about the goal and just follow the plan, focus on the daily habit.

Poker & Business Strategy

I am indulged in Poker (Texas Hold ’em) recently. Winning chips is great, but the most exciting part falls into the strategy of getting you there. the process to win chips is really interesting which requires competencies like math, strategy, psychology, and communication.

Playing poker is indeed very similar to running a business (4Ps, SWOT, PESTEL, etc). Your poker game actually starts from picking a table to play (the market you decide to compete), your playing style should be calibrated according to the bet position you are, and you must be able to gain information and read “tells” from your opponents to determine if they are bluffing. You also need to decide how much to bet so to optimize your profit from the pot.

“Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike.”

Before Sunrise

One day in the winter of 2010, I was reading a Porsche magazine in a book store in Roppongi Hills @ Tokyo. “I want it!” I thought. Looking at the price, even a second-hand, it costs a lot (well, of course).

“Why there are so many Porsche running around the Roppongi area?”, I doubted. It is likely that those people run their own business, good investors, or they just used up their life long savings to get one – I don’t want to do that, it is not cool to sacrifice the whole life style for that. Yet, I’m not a good investor, nor even close to an amateur. At last, I decided to invest on myself – go get an MBA!

Just because it is cool.

Will Glory Embrace Liverpool FC again?

Year 2010 was a period of turbulence for Liverpool FC. New England Sports Ventures (NESV) acquired the club in October 2010. Two managers were sacked – Rafa Benitez in June 2010 and Roy Hodgson in January 2011.

History of Liverpool FC

Liverpool FC (a.k.a. LFC or the Reds) has won 18 League Champions, 5 European Cups, 7 FA Cups, 7 League Cups, and 3 UEFA Cups[i]. They are no doubt one of the most successful football clubs in the football history. However, they have never won the Premier League champion again since 1993. Will glory embrace the Reds again?