🎙️ New Year's Resolutions

Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and nearly half of all American consumers will make resolutions for 2024.

The most popular ones? What you’d expect: Saving money, exercising more, eating healthier, improving mental health, etc.

And catering to those resolutions is a big business. From gym membership promos to discounts on healthy-eating services, billions will be spent on self-improvement.

💭 Here’s to hoping that 2024 will be different for making those new habits last.

— Matthew and Shawn

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The secret to successful investing is relatively simple: Figure out the value of something and then pay a lot less.”

— Joel Greenblatt

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TUNE IN

🎧 The $2.6 trillion man — rare interview with Rick Rieder

🎥 How Amazon’s custom AI chips really work

🎥 What your credit score actually means

🎧 Contrarian investing and Sir John Templeton with Scott Phillips 

WHAT WE’RE READING

📖 Books: The Anthology of Balaji by Eric Jorgenson

📰 Long-form articles: How the startup bubble burst in 2022 and 2023

🗞️ Advice: Forget goals and resolutions — focus on this instead

TRIVIA

TWEET OF THE WEEK

FINAL THOUGHTS

🔢 One Big Number: 48%. That’s the percentage of Americans, according to Gallup, who were “very worried” or “moderately worried” about the safety of their money in banks — as of April 2023, after several regional banks failed.

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