Eliot Brockner

Advertising, Media, Latin America, and all points in between. Views my own, except for the RTs, which I wish were. Write @latamthought

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

Good skills in general

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

Good investing skills:

- Lack of FOMO
- A well-calibrated sense of your future regret.
- A sensitive bullshit detector.
- Respecting luck as much as you respect risk.
- Identifying what game you’re playing and not being persuaded by people playing different games.

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

Brand marketing matters

[Arthurito da Faria Lima @Arthuritofaria1]

Cantina: R$39,90
Trattoria: R$59,90
Forneria: R$69,90
Cucina: R$79,90
Osteria: R$89,90

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Selection Bias https://t.co/mcALp3vjGX

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

Great thread, especially #5

[Michael Mauboussin @mjmauboussin]

1/ Some thoughts on recent results in the stock market. If you are an investor (as opposed to a speculator) remember that you are buying partial stakes in *businesses.* Would you be comfortable owning the business for years to come if there were no stock price?

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

Underrated tweet

[Follow @miblogestublog on BlueSky @miblogestublog]

tfw your host thinks you’re Brazilian but you’re actually Portuguese

[Diego Saez Gil @dsaezgil]

Continuing with how crazy big are South American countries:

🇧🇷Brazil’s coast measured in Californias 🤯

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

Great article on a trend that is likely to continue, and not just for tech companies. Parabens ⁦@revelojobs⁩ ! https://t.co/6GTOkpfuAR

[Juan Forero @WSJForero]

Thailand by itself more than doubles what ALL South America draws in tourist dollars. Talk about room to grow.

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

The amount of money on the left equals the amount of money on the right

[Fotos de Fatos @FotosDeFatos]

Essa é a quantidade de dinheiro venezuelano que você precisaria pra conseguir R$ 62,00.

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

A gem in a sea of gems, aka this quote from Buffett’s shareholder letters

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

Skin in the Game versus Reputation in the Game. (Also the JFK vs EWR effect).

From Berkshire Hathaway Chairman's Letter 1984.

HT Emre Yilmaz @nntaleb

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

The Brazilian version of this meme, with a little dash of political economy thrown in

[Sabrina Valle @sabrinavalle]

Meme spread after Brazil’s deep-water auction today. Makes fun of European companies pouring billions of dollars💰in fresh crude despite promises to transition. Public opinion wants to break up with oil? Well, developing countries will gladly absorb that production, babe. 💍

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

Interesting but far from reaching the summit of this trajectory @aleszubajak

[Juan Galindo @nicadispatch]

Ortega is now in the tracksuit phase of geriatric dictatorship

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

First tweet in a while, so it needed to be a good one. And it is. Great read https://t.co/MSUTH7DNdL

[Maps of Colombia - Mapas de Colombia @ColombianMaps]

Mapa físico de Suramérica, con relieve en 3D

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

Great resource, intuitive and easy to use, and at the right time. Congrats ⁦@AmitTaylor⁩! https://t.co/04iXAiv50n

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

@zacharylipton Agreed, but not just true for science. Good advice for many careers

[Eliot Brockner @EBrockner]

@JamesKiernan Lin Manuel was always destined for greatness

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Logical fallacies are errors in reasoning that undermine the quality of an argument.

THREAD: 20 common logical fallacies to learn, identify, and avoid:

[Fotos de Fatos @FotosDeFatos]

Rio de Janeiro, anos 1970.