Curious Worldview

118: Mikael Syding | Life, Lessons & Experiences From The European Hedge Fund Manager Of The Decade

Dec 27, 2022

03:35:02

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What Is Consciousness?

02:45

How to Go From Consciousness to Materiality

01:43

Shopify Needs to Be 10 Times Their Size, but They Are Super Successful

01:52

Introduction

3min

How Did You Get Started in the Financial Industry?

4min

You Can't Look People in the Eye

3min

Patrick Bateman - The Reason I Am in Finance

2min

Patrick Bateman Is Not a Good Guy

2min

The Original Sprezzatura

2min

Is There Something in There Worth Talking About?

2min

The Right Side of the Brain

3min

Psychedelics Can Cure Mental Illness

6min

10.

LSD - Is LSD the Better Choice?

3min

11.

Tim Ferriss - What Do You Think?

1min

12.

SSRIs

6min

13.

What's Happening When You Take a Psychedelic Trip?

2min

14.

The First 48 Years of Your Life

2min

15.

Do You Have an Aura Ring?

4min

16.

Is There Something With Sister?

3min

17.

I Want to Go to Stockholm School of Economics, You Should Go

2min

18.

What's a Fractal?

3min

19.

The Left Brain Hemisphere

4min

20.

Antidepressants

2min

21.

SSRIs and Psychedelics - The Dangerous Things

2min

22.

What Are SSRIs Doing to Your Brain?

3min

23.

Is Your Portfolio Management Style Different From Futureists?

3min

24.

Amc

2min

25.

The Philosophy of Anti-Loop

5min

26.

I Am a Strange Loop by Gudeler Schabach

2min

27.

The Confluence of Opposite

4min

28.

Reaching the Goal Is the Worst Thing You Can Do

3min

29.

The Ultimate Coupling of Opposite

3min

30.

Is the Book Trying to Explain That Philosophy?

2min

31.

You Don't Want to Work at a Bank

2min

32.

You Don't Have to Eat Right Now

3min

33.

What Do You Think About the Famous Shortsellers?

4min

34.

Is Your Best Short of All Time?

3min

35.

Are You Short? Is It Just Shopify and Tesla?

3min

36.

Shopify Needs to Be 10 Times Their Size, but They Are Super Successful

2min

37.

Tesla - Is He a Con Man?

2min

38.

Tesla Is a Complete Psychopath

5min

39.

Is Elon Musk Just Exceptional?

6min

40.

Is Elon Musk Really a Fraud?

5min

41.

How to Short a Tesla Stock?

3min

42.

Is There a Great Swedish Short That You've Ever Shorted?

6min

43.

Investing

2min

44.

Do You Have Access to Any Information?

2min

45.

Did SBF Do Any Due Diligence?

2min

46.

Is There a Fraud Detection?

2min

47.

Theranos - The Ends Justify the Means

3min

48.

The 80-20 Principle of Self-Driving Cars

3min

49.

The 80-20 Rule

3min

50.

Why Would You Ever Want to Go to Mars?

1min

51.

The Lindy Effect and the V2 Rocket Effect

6min

52.

When Signals Drive Your Behavior?

4min

53.

Naseem Taleb's Intuition Is What I've Been Waiting for All Along

2min

54.

Why Haven't You Interviewed Him Yet?

4min

55.

What Is Consciousness?

4min

56.

What Is Consciousness?

3min

57.

What Is Consciousness?

3min

58.

Is Your Consciousness in Your Fingertip?

2min

59.

How to Go From Consciousness to Materiality

2min

60.

Psychedelics - Are You Going Beyond the Rules?

5min

61.

What Meaning Does This Worldview Give You?

5min

62.

Is There a Scarcity to Life?

3min

63.

You Can't Understand God's Plan

2min

64.

Is There a Personal God?

3min

65.

Socialize, Meet With People, Socialize

2min

66.

The Role of Serendipity in Your Life

2min

67.

The Serendipiton of Serendipity

3min

68.

What Advice Would You Give to Young People?

4min

69.

Is There a Country You're Particularly Bullish On?

4min

70.

Sweden Exceptionalism?

2min

71.

What Do You Think of Sweden Today?

2min

72.

A.N. McIlchrist and Terrence McKenna on Psychedelics

3min

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Mikael Syding is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever had the opportunity to speak with on this podcast.

In 2010, his hedge fund, Futuris, won European hedge fund of the decade. Mikael is an extremely popular voice in the Swedish investment community and as erudite and eclectic in his interests as they come.

In addition to popularising the Italian word for effortless mastery, sprezzatura, Mikael also writes regularly about markets, philosophy, psychedelics, his own personal story, science, sleep, psychology and just about all the interesting type of stuff that the audience of a Curious Worldview are primmed at attention for.

This chat covers a spectrum of topic including…

Mikael Syding’s Formative Years
Patrick Bateman As A Role Model
Consciousness & Psychedelics
Short Positions (Elon Musk & Tesla)
Nassim Taleb & Risk
+ More & More As Well

Links To Mikael Syding

Mikael Syding Website
Mikael Syding Twitter

Episodes Of The Curious Worldview Podcast Mentioned.

Nassim Taleb & Incerto Podcast
Ludvig Sunström – Breaking Out Of Homeostasis
Carl Jung Series

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00:00 – Introduction.
02:15 – Formative Years, Experiences & The Influence Of Patrick Bateman.
16:45 – Left Brain Right Brain Divide & Emotional Depth.
39:45 – ‘I Had Zero Empathy’
45:26 – Antidepressants & Modernity.
1:02:55 – Mikael Syding On Risk & Antiloop.
1:15:05 – Coincidence Of Opposites.
1:32:25 – Famous Short Sellers & Mikael’s Favourite Short Positions.
1:43:10 – ‘Elon Musk Is A Conman’… Tesla & Twitter.
2:03:26 – How Investing Expands Your Curiosities, The Information Edge In Investing, Due-diligence & 80/20.
2:25:58 – Pippa Malmgren & Signals.
2:37:59 – Mikael Syding’s Theory Of Consciousness.
3:16:32 – The Role Of Serendipity In Mikael’s Life.
3:20:57 – Advice To Young People (Lex Fridman).
3:25:52 – Country Mikael Syding Is Bullish On.
3:28:49 – Swedish Exceptionalism.
3:33:05 – Conversation Between Any Two People Of History.