Listen to the deep-dive discussion – The Physics of Zero Cost Growth (49:08 min) “The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.” — Attributed to Einstein * * * The Question Nobody Asks Every investor asks the same question: what should I buy? Few ask the better question: why does it compound? The…
Category: Growth Investing
What Chris Hohn’s Portfolio Reveals – About the Hierarchy of Tollbooths
Listen to the deep-dive discussion – Chris Hohn’s 53 Billion Dollar Tollbooth Bet. (44:02 min) “The most important thing is high barriers to entry. If you find a company that is going to be a good company long-term, then you should hold on to it because there’s a persistency of these barriers to entry.” —…
The Double Swell Freesurfer – When Two Waves Converge on the Same Reef
Listen to the deep-dive discussion – The AI and ETF Double Swell. (29:30 min) 1. A Taxonomy of Structural Growth In The Freesurfer, we introduced a formula for the rarest kind of business: one that grows without paying for its own growth. We called it A × B. A is the moat—the proprietary toll…
The Way to the Mountain Guide: When the Portfolio Becomes the Position
Listen to the deep-dive discussion – Stop Climbing When You Reach the Summit (29:42 min.) “When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae, and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children’s birthdays, there’s a good chance you’ve become too wrapped up in your…
The Freesurfer – Growth That Costs Nothing
Listen to the deep-dive discussion – The Freesurfer Stocks That Grow for Free (32:41 min) “The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting.” — Charlie Munger I. The Architecture The Infinite Investor framework organizes capital into four functional buckets. Cash (10–25%) is the perpetual option on the…
Position Sizing – The Final Act of Conviction
By Jocelyn Dubé Listen to the deep-dive discussion – Position Sizing Matters More Than Stock Picking (31:18 min) “You have your best idea and your tenth-best idea in the portfolio at the same weight. Why?” — The Infinite Investor “The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Going into your seventh one rather than putting…
Cash as the Infinite Option
Listen to the deep-dive discussion – Cash is the Infinite Option (18:41 min) Cash as the Infinite Option The investment industry has a phrase for uninvested capital: “cash on the sidelines.” The metaphor reveals how the industry views cash—as a spectator, waiting to get in the game. During the era of near-zero interest rates,…
The 50/50 Rule: Recycling Asymmetry in Speculative Positions
Context: Why Speculative Positions on a Growth Investing Site? This site focuses on growth investing — the careful selection of high-quality compounders that can generate wealth over decades. The core of the approach is finding businesses with durable competitive advantages, high returns on capital, and long runways for reinvestment. But even a disciplined growth investor…
The Paradox of Wealth: Why Survival Beats Optimization (A Manifesto for the Ergodic Investor)
You have spent years building your wealth. You took risks, you optimized, and you won. You have reached the summit. But standing at the top, a strange feeling takes hold: vertigo. Why? Because you intuitively realize that the rules that got you here are not the rules that will keep you here. Traditional finance is…
The Volatility Tax and How to Defeat It: A Mental Model for How to Survive the Maths of the Market
We are all taught the same fundamental truth of investing: Stocks go up over time. We are shown a chart of the S&P 500 moving from bottom-left to top-right and told, “Just buy, hold, and wait.” For the index, this is true. But for individual stocks, this is often a dangerous lie. The reality of…