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Invert, always invert

Published on June 12, 2026

Charlie Munger liked to repeat a story about a country fellow who said: “I wish I knew where I was going to die, and then I’d never go there.” It sounds like a joke, but hidden within it is one of the most useful ideas about thinking clearly. It also has a surprisingly distinguished pedigree.

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Editor’s pick: Quote

A quote worth reflecting on today:

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”

Henry David Thoreau

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Editor’s pick: Book

Our daily recommendation for the curious reader:

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, is a seminal novel of the Lost Generation—a term used to describe the disillusioned youth who came of age during and after World War I. Set primarily in Paris and Spain during the 1920s, the novel follows a group of American and British expatriates as they grapple with themes of aimlessness, love, masculinity, and the search for meaning in a fractured postwar world.

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    by Charlie Munger (compiled by Peter D. Kaufman)
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    by Steve Jobs
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    by Richard P. Feynman
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    by Andrew Grove
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    by Ian Fleming

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    British author, best known for writing the James Bond spy novels

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