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Novel Investor
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Novel Investor is a personal blog at novelinvestor.com about economics and business. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Novel Investor's notes on systems thinking and investing, such as its note on Systemantics. The comments cite these notes or discuss IPOs and bank profitability without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I would recommend reading: Complexity by M. Waldrop https://commoncog.com/learning-from-waldrop-complexity/ The Systems Bible by J. Gall (This one is an odd one but it is good for developing a sense of humor) https://novelinvestor.com/notes/systemantics-how-systems-wor...
Comment linking /notes/systemantics-how-systems-work-and-especially-how-they-fail-by-john-gall/
on “We must seek a widely-applicable science of systems”Submitted Oh Yeah? Forecasting Follies Around the 1929 Crash (1931/2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIPOs are generally not a good investment, at least not relative to average market return: > However, a year later, we see that the majority of companies are either outperforming or underperforming the market by more than 10%. We also see that more companies are underperforming than beating the index (the red bars stretch below the 50% line). > That seems to indicate that for some companies, the initial IPO enthusias…
Comment linking /the-hype-and-hot-air-around-ipos/
on “SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading”>but an absolute crapload of money off the business as a whole. Of the 11 sectors making up the S&P 500, over the last 15 years, finance is one of the least profitable. Banks are not very profitable compared to other sectors of the economy. [1] The reason is there are ~5000 banks in the US, and a huge number you can choose from. If a few banks were simply charging tons more than it actually costs to run a bank, anot…
Comment linking /sector-performance/
on “Tell HN: JPMorgan Chase forcing arbitration agreement to log in”