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What’s In Your Knowledge Stack? Part 1 — Daily Read, Investments, Well-being?
BY Ken Akoundi, PhD
Introduction
For over 23 years, Investor DNA went out to 25,000+ people, 6 days a week — that’s a whopping 170 MM emails. In that time, we developed an efficient process to read everything we thought worth reading to produce a news aggregation email with “worthy” links every morning at 7:01 AM ET on the dot (fun sidenote: we picked 7:01 because our analytics showed peak-open rate was 7:00 AM and 7:15 AM ET with or without coffee).
Folks like to talk about their Technology Stack or Tech Stack. We like to talk about our Knowledge Stack, or K-Stack. Everyone has one. A Knowledge Stack develops over time and is adapted to individual leaning-style. Younger folks have a less populated and more flexible K-Stack. Older folks’ K-stack is broad though sometimes rigid. As individuals, investors, or members of a team or organization, there must be a willingness to increase the Knowledge Stack. For example, Investment Offices need to ramp up their K-Stack when onboarding a new hire who requires information and expertise on businesses, industry, and markets. Where should they begin?
Right here!
In keeping with our tradition of knowledge-sharing, we are providing you and anyone you know our K-Stack…
