Since the blog’s inception in December in 2010, it has garnered over 15,000 views – something which I am both amazed and humbled at. Looking back, it has been an exhilarating journey of refining my mental models that I use to approach investing. Although the basics of what I do is still grounded firmly in the work of Graham and Dodd’s The Intelligent Investor & Security Analysis, experience has allowed me to refine their methodology to form my own investing style. The fact that The Intelligent Investor, which was published in 1949, is still relevant today is testament to the timelessness of his work. I recommend everyone who is interested in investing to read it from cover to cover as many times as possible (I own two copies of the book myself).

One of the things that I noticed over the years is that the average investor is poorly ...