I am a New York and California based hedge fund and private equity investor. I also participate in angel/early-stage investing, real estate, direct lending, and traditional private equity deals. I write about history, economics, finance, technology, education and philanthropy. Welcome to my personal blog.Tumblr (3.0; @joekusnan)https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/6fab5be9e3e70d868f918eea38a9c827/tumblr_ol86wsEY3N1qe0ldso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Interest in hedge funds over time</p><p>Source: Google Trends</p>https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/157112704552https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/157112704552Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:46:04 -0500Warren Buffett wrote a letter to Louis Blumkin of Nebraska Furniture Mart on August 8, 1983...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/156920046132https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/156920046132Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:41:29 -0500“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/156109717882https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/156109717882Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:26:52 -0500The Rational Optimist is a book by Matt Ridley that discusses the roots of human prosperity. It has...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/147898730012https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/147898730012Sun, 24 Jul 2016 12:13:28 -0400In February 2000, The New York Times published an article entitled, “10 Stocks for 2010: :...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/147873699482https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/147873699482Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:42:06 -0400“Everyone wants to be an investment manager, raise the maximum amount of money, trade like mad...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/146104946227https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/146104946227Sat, 18 Jun 2016 07:56:01 -0400Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal gave a interview to Tim Ferriss last year where he outlined some of his...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/144275578377https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/144275578377Thu, 12 May 2016 21:37:36 -0400Chris Anderson from TED has a new book out about TED Talks and what makes them work. He has some...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/144202256347https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/144202256347Wed, 11 May 2016 11:40:53 -0400Grit is a new book by Angela Duckworth, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. It is the...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/143828106887https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/143828106887Wed, 04 May 2016 01:00:19 -0400Here are the latest results from the Berkshire Hathaway/Protege Hedge Fund Bet as disclosed at the...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/143828532432https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/143828532432Sun, 01 May 2016 01:11:47 -0400“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/139605160087https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/139605160087Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:06:14 -0500“Money, status, all the vanities the preacher of Ecclesiastes described hold so little...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/138974540832https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/138974540832Tue, 09 Feb 2016 01:06:17 -0500One of the paradoxes of the US stock market has been the declining number of US publicly traded...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/138802946027https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/138802946027Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:19:09 -0500Robert Mankoff, New Yorker, October 12, 1981 https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/137379727212https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/137379727212Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:13:19 -0500In 2006, Fortune Magazine put MySpace on its cover. They had also written about it a few months...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/136396507787https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/136396507787Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:58:23 -05005 of the top 10 companies listed in the United States by market capitalization are tech companies,...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/131797157837https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/131797157837Sat, 24 Oct 2015 02:48:29 -0400“Find out what time your boss gets in and get in earlier.” - Carol J. Loomis, the...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/130342797217https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/130342797217Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:46:09 -0400“There is the old tale of two friends who met on the street after not seeing each other for...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/126469024337https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/126469024337Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:20:31 -0400In August 2011, gold reached its all-time high at over $1,900 an ounce.  The world appeared that it...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/125755607852https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/125755607852Mon, 03 Aug 2015 08:56:20 -0400“One of Chesky’s biggest source triumphs was his audience with Buffett. A little over a year...https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/122627683802https://joekusnan.tumblr.com/post/122627683802Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:27:04 -0400