Unfiltered Coffee Q&A, June 2026: On Trying, Waiting, and Learning to Receive
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In this episode, Bogumil Baranowski shares reflections on personal growth, investing principles, and the importance of receiving help after a month of travel.
Find me on Substack, search for Bogumil Baranowski. See you there! This month's Unfiltered Coffee finds me recording thoughts from the road after a few weeks of travel that pulled me away from daily news and toward ideas with a longer shelf life. I share reflections from Nir Eyal's book Belief , including the idea that successful people accumulate more losses simply because they try more things, and from Ray Madoff’s book Immortality and the Law , which traces how trusts extend the wishes of the dead into the lives of the living — a theme I see playing out more and more with clients and listeners alike. I also revisit familiar ideas from new angles: why rules matter more than exceptions (even when someone's great uncle smoked and lived to 102), why liquidity makes stock ownership fundamentally different from owning a car or a private business, and why AI hasn't sped up the one thing that still can't be rushed in investing — waiting for conviction to pay off. I reflect on value as something constantly exchanged in daily life, not just in markets, and on how removing time constraints and billing pressure can free both investors and professionals to do their best work. I close the…
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