{"id":1982,"date":"2025-08-06T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:23:44","slug":"avoiding-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2025\/08\/06\/avoiding-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Farnam Street Blog: Avoiding Stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Farnam Street Blog \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/avoiding-stupidity\/\">Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe path to success often comes through avoiding major mistakes rather than pursuing brilliant moves. This isn\u2019t about being passive \u2013 it\u2019s about being thoughtful and disciplined about where and how you compete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was a point Charlie Munger, the billionaire business partner of Warren Buffett, made a long time ago (\u2026): <em>\u2019It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.\u2019<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgapp.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/22\/avoiding-stupidity\/\">Jeff Gapp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farnam Street Blog \u2013 Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance: \u201cThe path to success often comes through avoiding major mistakes rather than pursuing brilliant moves. This isn\u2019t about being passive \u2013 it\u2019s about being thoughtful and disciplined about where and how you compete.\u201d \u201cThis was a point Charlie Munger, the billionaire business partner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog","tag-links"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}