John Addis is the Founder of IntelligentInvestor, a brilliant writer, thinker and entrepreneur. John Addis's lessons are deep and vast, making this Australian Investors Podcast episode with Owen Rask oh-so special.

You'll L-O-V-E this episode if you love value investing, how to live an alternative life with meaning and purpose, the pitfalls of founding a company, Warren Buffett, what makes most great investors great writers, daily rituals to live by, and more.

John Addis podcast talking points

• Aside from enjoying a G&T, what daily, weekly or yearly rituals do you practice and why? If any.  
• What’s something you believe about investing or business, that few people would agree with you on? 
• If you could grab a new investor by the shoulders and shake some sense into them, what would you say? 
• Related: what were the key learnings, failures or successes you experienced and can now reflect on? 
• Do you think Buffett is as good as everyone thinks? Why, why not? 
• Why is the learning curve for investing so steep?
• Behind the scenes at II, do you now spend more of your time teaching people to invest or to rite gud? 
• Why is it important to be able to write well?
• Which writers do you look to for their quality? What do they do well that others could leverage? 
• With the rise of AI, is writing a dying form of communication? 
• Is AI in a bubble? How would we even know? Isn't this just a simulation?!
• Will AI make stock pickers redundant?
• What have been the most surprising trends, one to the upside and one to the downside, over your investing career? 
• Which Australian company brings you the most frustration? 
• What’s been the biggest mistake of your investing career? 
• What's been the best?
• How do you think about the consumption of news and information? How do you curate your home screen or online habits? 
• What specific strategies or methods have you learned from the II team? Past or present? 
• The role that optimism plays in human affairs.
• Have you read Hans Rosling's Factfulness? If yes, what did you make of it? 
• What’s the most overrated investing book? Conversely, which one changed your life and why?
• How do you think about the passive versus active debate? Who should be stock pickers? Who shouldn't bother? 
• How do you think about teaching kids about money and investing? Do you do anything that others might not? 

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