Book takeaways

6 posts tagged "Book takeaways".

August 24, 2026

Don't get treed by a chihuahua

Pete Blaber's own near-death story from Delta Force selection: exhausted and alone, he mistook a shape in the dark for a bear and jumped off a cliff to escape it. It was a pig. What that says about deciding without context, in general, in investing, and in how Aurono ended up built.

August 20, 2026

Sleep on it, then go live

Pete Blaber couldn't sleep while planning a mission, so he asked why. The answer: the mind works in three phases, saturate, incubate, illuminate. What that means for decisions in general, for investing, and for how Aurono's Lab and shadow mode ended up shaped the way they are.

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August 17, 2026

Deny yourself the scoreboard

Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness has a confession: knowing a result is statistical noise doesn't stop you from feeling it, so he built a rule that keeps the number away from him until it means something. Aurono runs on the same admission.

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August 13, 2026

Tie yourself to the mast

Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets revives an old idea for beating bad decisions before they happen: the Ulysses contract. Aurono is built on the same principle.

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August 10, 2026

Your decision was right. The outcome wasn't.

Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets calls it resulting: judging a decision by how it turned out, not how the decision was made. Another gem: once one branch of the tree becomes reality, the others disappear too, taking with them the context you'd need to judge yourself fairly.

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August 3, 2026

The best decision maker is a model of you

Daniel Kahneman's Noise studies judges, doctors, and insurance underwriters, and keeps landing on the same finding: a simple model of your own past decisions usually beats you making the call live. That's the whole argument for rules, and it goes well beyond trading.

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