Curious Worldview

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

Dec 27, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
How Did You Get Started in the Financial Industry?
02:31 • 4min
3
You Can't Look People in the Eye
06:03 • 3min
4
Patrick Bateman - The Reason I Am in Finance
09:05 • 2min
5
Patrick Bateman Is Not a Good Guy
11:02 • 2min
6
The Original Sprezzatura
12:46 • 2min
7
Is There Something in There Worth Talking About?
14:33 • 2min
8
The Right Side of the Brain
16:31 • 3min
9
Psychedelics Can Cure Mental Illness
19:21 • 6min
10
LSD - Is LSD the Better Choice?
24:56 • 3min
11
Tim Ferriss - What Do You Think?
27:36 • 1min
12
SSRIs
28:48 • 6min
13
What's Happening When You Take a Psychedelic Trip?
34:41 • 2min
14
The First 48 Years of Your Life
36:24 • 2min
15
Do You Have an Aura Ring?
38:10 • 4min
16
Is There Something With Sister?
42:32 • 3min
17
I Want to Go to Stockholm School of Economics, You Should Go
45:15 • 2min
18
What's a Fractal?
46:59 • 3min
19
The Left Brain Hemisphere
49:37 • 4min
20
Antidepressants
54:04 • 2min
21
SSRIs and Psychedelics - The Dangerous Things
56:31 • 2min
22
What Are SSRIs Doing to Your Brain?
58:38 • 3min
23
Is Your Portfolio Management Style Different From Futureists?
01:01:54 • 3min
24
Amc
01:05:06 • 2min
25
The Philosophy of Anti-Loop
01:06:57 • 5min
26
I Am a Strange Loop by Gudeler Schabach
01:12:19 • 2min
27
The Confluence of Opposite
01:14:40 • 4min
28
Reaching the Goal Is the Worst Thing You Can Do
01:18:18 • 3min
29
The Ultimate Coupling of Opposite
01:21:21 • 3min
30
Is the Book Trying to Explain That Philosophy?
01:24:42 • 2min
31
You Don't Want to Work at a Bank
01:26:46 • 2min
32
You Don't Have to Eat Right Now
01:28:29 • 3min
33
What Do You Think About the Famous Shortsellers?
01:31:37 • 4min
34
Is Your Best Short of All Time?
01:35:34 • 3min
35
Are You Short? Is It Just Shopify and Tesla?
01:38:08 • 3min
36
Shopify Needs to Be 10 Times Their Size, but They Are Super Successful
01:41:16 • 2min
37
Tesla - Is He a Con Man?
01:43:08 • 2min
38
Tesla Is a Complete Psychopath
01:44:39 • 5min
39
Is Elon Musk Just Exceptional?
01:49:49 • 6min
40
Is Elon Musk Really a Fraud?
01:55:25 • 5min
41
How to Short a Tesla Stock?
01:59:57 • 3min
42
Is There a Great Swedish Short That You've Ever Shorted?
02:02:35 • 6min
43
Investing
02:08:09 • 2min
44
Do You Have Access to Any Information?
02:10:01 • 2min
45
Did SBF Do Any Due Diligence?
02:12:14 • 2min
46
Is There a Fraud Detection?
02:14:15 • 2min
47
Theranos - The Ends Justify the Means
02:15:50 • 3min
48
The 80-20 Principle of Self-Driving Cars
02:18:46 • 3min
49
The 80-20 Rule
02:21:46 • 3min
50
Why Would You Ever Want to Go to Mars?
02:24:57 • 1min
51
The Lindy Effect and the V2 Rocket Effect
02:26:18 • 6min
52
When Signals Drive Your Behavior?
02:31:58 • 4min
53
Naseem Taleb's Intuition Is What I've Been Waiting for All Along
02:36:04 • 2min
54
Why Haven't You Interviewed Him Yet?
02:38:00 • 4min
55
What Is Consciousness?
02:42:02 • 4min
56
What Is Consciousness?
02:45:54 • 3min
57
What Is Consciousness?
02:48:38 • 3min
58
Is Your Consciousness in Your Fingertip?
02:52:00 • 2min
59
How to Go From Consciousness to Materiality
02:53:38 • 2min
60
Psychedelics - Are You Going Beyond the Rules?
02:55:21 • 5min
61
What Meaning Does This Worldview Give You?
03:00:35 • 5min
62
Is There a Scarcity to Life?
03:05:18 • 3min
63
You Can't Understand God's Plan
03:08:31 • 2min
64
Is There a Personal God?
03:10:42 • 3min
65
Socialize, Meet With People, Socialize
03:13:27 • 2min
66
The Role of Serendipity in Your Life
03:15:51 • 2min
67
The Serendipiton of Serendipity
03:18:09 • 3min
68
What Advice Would You Give to Young People?
03:20:47 • 4min
69
Is There a Country You're Particularly Bullish On?
03:24:50 • 4min
70
Sweden Exceptionalism?
03:28:48 • 2min
71
What Do You Think of Sweden Today?
03:30:23 • 2min
72
A.N. McIlchrist and Terrence McKenna on Psychedelics
03:32:27 • 3min