Going one up

Soon after I finished college in 1990, something really exciting happened to me. If this was 2023, you could have expected this excitement to be finding a VC for some new business or some such thing. You see, 1990 was a much duller time - my excitement was simply that I acquired a copy of Peter Lynch's book 'One Up on Wall Street'. I know that sounds trivial today, but this was a really fortuitous thing to happen. In those pre-internet days, the flow of information was much slower and harder, and this great book had just come out the year before. Lynch's book was like a primary education for me as an investor. His central idea, which we have tackled in detail in 'Wealth Insight' September 2023 issue's cover story, was that an individual could invest well - better than Wall Street - using the knowledge that was available in one's daily life. At that time, the idea that an individual