In this New York Times piece from Laura Vanderkam (who provided a stellar endorsement of Odds On), she audits her time to find out how busy she really is. It’s reminiscent of our own Rick Hill, who studied his calendar to find out how much of his life he earned back by adopting an evidence-based investment approach. How much was it? 6 weeks per year. As Laura says “A life is lived in hours. What we do with our lives will be a function of how we spend those hours, and we get only so many.” For the results of Laura’s study, click here.

We are incredibly proud of Matt and the early success of his book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence-Based Investor. Thank you to all for helping make the book an Amazon bestseller within the first day.

Please enjoy this video compilation from the book launch, and—don’t forget—we need your help obtaining book reviews on Amazon. Click here to buy a copy of the book and/or write your review.

As longtime followers know, I’m a fan of baseball and Michael Lewis. When he first published Moneyball in 2003, it was a match made in heaven. Dialing the clock forward to 2016, Jeff Luhnow, General Manager of the Houston Astros and former head of Player Development for the St. Louis Cardinals, is one of baseball’s best practitioners of Moneyball ideology…embracing the data and statistics of player performance to build a winning team rather than hoopla, emotion, and gut feel. I asked Jeff to read Odds On to get his take. His quote appears on the book itself:

“I picked up Odds On and couldn’t put it down. Matt Hall is a great storyteller, and his discoveries about how to build real wealth in the overwhelming world of finance make common sense. The sports world has been changing rapidly due to better information, and now I know the same revolution has been taking place in the investment arena.”