Peter Onsmark

Line Producer in film and television. Popular Investor with eToro. Writer of “ABOVE THE LINE” which reframes investing through film production.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.

Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: Why Chaos Produces Innovation https://t.co/SpwFcYTrcA
The cleanest productions are not always the most creative. They can be efficient and controlled, but control has a way of protecting the original idea.

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE - Special Topic: Michael and the Value of Cultural Memory https://t.co/bKHIC4lp3q

A $97 million domestic opening weekend is not just a box office headline. It is a reminder that some cultural assets are bigger than the film built around them.

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: New Hollywood and the Tech Boom - When Rules Break https://t.co/ZE8BBNeVnK

Every rule-breaking era creates its own mythology. In film, people remember the breakthroughs, not the overreach that followed them. In markets, people remember the legendary compounders..

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: Why Great Films (and Trades) Are Mostly Accidents https://t.co/RJwAFWkVUF

"The market is full of investors describing luck as conviction after the fact. Film history is full of productions describing improvisation as vision once the box office arrives."

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: Box Office Bias - Overpaying for Past Performance https://t.co/RDtWclshVB via @LinkedIn

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ABOVE THE LINE: Mad Max Markets - Inflation, Scarcity, and Survival https://t.co/GL4PgX8ReL

A production running comfortably on time and money can absorb a surprising amount of waste.

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: The Studio Executive Dilemma - Career Risk vs Shareholder Risk https://t.co/f01bQYRbyv

The person with the authority to allocate capital is often balancing two very different exposures: the company’s money and their own future.

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: Groundhog Day Markets - Why Nothing Is Being Resolved https://t.co/GNzJOiXea2

In Groundhog Day, the trap is not that time stops. It is that repetition replaces development. The same day keeps replaying because the central problem has not been solved.

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ABOVE THE LINE: The Editor’s Cut - Why Cutting Positions Saves Portfolios https://t.co/GhrG4X5D6u

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ABOVE THE LINE: The Agent Problem - Misaligned Incentives Everywhere https://t.co/4sxIHb33Ij

Highly educated people, sitting in expensive rooms, with full access to information, can still produce terrible outcomes if the reward system is miswired.

[Ike Ojuku @IkeOjuku]

Situational awareness, beating them in their own game nice 👌.

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE — The Line Producer Advantage: Operators Beat Visionaries https://t.co/tEQHhCYo9F

Operators think differently because they are paid to absorb consequences. They do not get to hide behind intent.

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: Why Big Budgets Make Everyone Dumber https://t.co/wedD6LxqzZ

Budgets promise clarity. Numbers create the impression that risk can be measured, contained, and managed into submission.

[Just a Dude Who Invests @DudeWhoInvests]

Bill Ackman on getting through a stressful, and difficult period in your life.

Worth the 2 minutes, I come back to this video anytime I am going through a rough patch in life.

[Michael (Hedge Fund Manager) @HedgeFundFomo]

I hate my clients

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: Amazon Studios — Content as a Loss Leader https://t.co/iDFL9jNb7D

The spending is real — often at a scale that would make a traditional studio cautious — but the pressure attached to that spending is different.

[Just a Dude Who Invests @DudeWhoInvests]

Day 81 of 2026

[Peter Onsmark @Ponsmark]

ABOVE THE LINE: Jaws and Market Bubbles https://t.co/vLVeidSbe0
Every bubble begins with fascination rather than fear. Something new appears in the distance — a technology, a company, a market that seems to move differently from the ones that came before.