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Warren Buffett’s legendary 50+ year track record at Berkshire Hathaway is often seen as unrepeatable – a product of his unique genius, intuition, and once-in-a-lifetime access to market inefficiencies. But what if the core of his success wasn’t magic, but a system? That’s the groundbreaking question Dr. Kai Wu, Founder & CIO of Sparkline Capital, set out to answer. His tool? Not complex…

You know the feeling. There’s a critical piece of information somewhere in the company – a crucial data quirk, a compliance nuance, a hidden dependency – but you just can’t find it, or worse, you don’t even know it exists until it causes a problem. This isn’t an “unknown unknown” (something we know we don’t know). This is the insidious “unknown known” risk: vital knowledge that exists within…

Donald Rumsfeld Made A Videogame

Known for quips about such things as “known knowns” and “known unknowns,” Mr. Rumsfeld says the game will sharpen the mind and help improve concentration. Whether it counteracts the effects of aging, he won’t precisely say. “It is helpful to know what you know and know what you don’t know, and in this case, I know what I think but I don’t know the answer to your question,” he said. Julian Barnes,…