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Jim O'Shaughnessy: Origin Story, Career in Finance, Groundbreaking Books, and Future with OSV 👶 🕵️‍♂️ 🏦 ✍️📚 🚀

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The Importance of Being Extreme

You need a very spiky and extreme personality to create something totally new, totally different that nobody else has thought of. And I don't know, just be more tolerant and kinder to difference. You mentioned quant. That was how I spent the majority of my career as a quantitative manager in asset management equities. But I believe that you've got to be both Athens and Sparta. You'vegot to be Lao Tzu and Confucius. It's walking a razor's edge but you're not going to get nearly as far as you could get if you over optimize to a particular side.

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