4Q2018 Review & 2019 Resolution

While I would not say it’s a productive quarter, overall there still have been some progresses during the first quarter since being solo.

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In addition to diary-style posts, I wrote 16 analysis-related posts in 4Q18 surrounding  the following topics:

• Marketplace – Online / Offline
• Gaming Console
• Digital Distribution – Gaming
• Network Effect
• Hospitality
• Tourism
• Real Estate – Hotel Property
• UGC

In terms specific company, I started / resumed the following companies during this quarter:

• Nintendo (7974.JP / NTDOY)
• Pingduoduo (PDD.US)
• Mercari (4385.JP)
• EPIC Games / Discord / Valve – STEAM
• China Education Group Holdings Limited (839.HK)
  • No analysis on the blog yet as of December 31, 2018 while model and initial analysis are both in place.

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Number of follower has reached 105 as of this rewriting with roughly 20% being the target audience and less than 10% being the engaged audience. The follower base and the engagement is the reality for someone not being associated with institution and without track record. That said, I believe there are some positive feedback loops (increasing return) in the dynamic as analysis getting deeper, coverage getting broader, synergy among topics / specific companies being created and contents being accumulated. At the time being, I would focus on economy of scale and scope on the supply side to drive the whole process. Traffic / reader base / follower base are metrics to gauge the effect.

I am trying to follow the concept what Charlie Munger has introduced. Contents created and posted here are just stocks in the feedback loops.

[Book Reading]

I finished several technical/leisure books this quarter. Technical books center around platform and leisure books are mostly Japanese novels. Book reading is an input in the aforementioned feedback loops. I probably spent much more time on tweets, blog posts and podcasts.

Technical:

• Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
• Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You (TW-Translation )
• Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
• Valuation of Network Effects in Software Markets: A Complex Networks Approach (some chapters)
• The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You (some chapters)
• Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (some chapters)
• Platforms, Markets and Innovation (some chapters)
• Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know (some chapters)
• Content Inc.: How Entrepreneurs Use Content to Build Massive Audiences and Create Radically Successful Businesses (some chapters)
• Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World (some chapters)

Leisure:

• 『ぼくは明日、昨日のきみとデートする』(TW-Translation)
• 『よるのばけもの』(TW-Translation)
• 『か「」く「」し「」ご「」と「』(TW-Translation)
• 『また、同じ夢を見ていた』(TW-Translation)
• 『天使は奇跡を希う』(TW-Translation)
• 『裙長未及膝』

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[2019 Resolution]

! Execution !

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