Joseph Moore

And the only line that was drawn in the sand was my wife saying, under no circumstances.

Like if we hit that line, then I would back off.

But I Airbnb'd all the rooms in my house because that was the primary mortgage payoff strategy in the 1800s.

I shorted all of Jim Cramer's stock picks because there's an economics paper saying that there's this thing called the Cramer bounce.

But over time, I started to realize, oh, actually people can get ahead.

And this was quite embarrassing for someone who was arguing the opposite.

And so now I've created what I hope is a very helpful history for people.

This is what people were told to do in the past.

And these are the things that work.

These are the things that didn't.

And hopefully we can apply those today.

Yes.

I wanted to test all the assumptions.

And that was where academia came in very handy, is there is a baseline system of saying, this is the proposition.

Can we test the thesis?

And I wanted to test it in two ways.

In one way, I wanted to test it by saying, did this work for people in their real lives?

And then I wanted to see if I could do it in the present and see if it still worked now.

One of the conclusions that really struck me the more I did the work was how many things we think are old

that are actually very new and how many things we think are very new are actually very old.