There’s 98 days until 2027...Do this and you’ll thank yourself on Jan 1st

Independent judgment (Greenblatt's jelly bean test) and disciplined creative systems outperform reactive, crowd-influenced decision-making in both investing and business.

• 99-day sprint: Shaan and Sam frame the last 99 days of the year as a Q4 sprint, invoking Parkinson's Law — work expands to fill the time given, so shrinking deadlines (e.g., 22-min meetings) boosts output.
• Greenblatt's jelly bean lesson: Joel Greenblatt's jar experiment showed 100 people's silent average guess was off by only 5 (1,771 vs. actual 1,776), but hearing others' guesses aloud pushed error to ~50% — his metaphor for why crowd noise (Jim Cramer, tickers) wrecks independent stock analysis.

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