Gyroscopic Investing

Tyler wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:15 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:01 pm
Was this the same place that had the nice interview with you?

Yep. Same place.

Tyler wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:50 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:07 am
Any idea why they do such a thing?

That I do not know. I just happened across the interview during my normal browsing.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:15 am
Yet another example of how the Value Stock Geek consistently sends an email with an email date about 2 weeks prior to it actually being sent.

I was in the email box yesterday and it had nothing left in it about 24 hours ago. The email was not there. Today it is with a 2/21/24 date.

Tyler wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:28 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:15 am
Yet another example of how the Value Stock Geek consistently sends an email with an email date about 2 weeks prior to it actually being sent.

I was in the email box yesterday and it had nothing left in it about 24 hours ago. The email was not there. Today it is with a 2/21/24 date.

My educated guess is that it’s related to the fact that VSG makes his podcasts available to subscribers 2 weeks before he makes them public.

Xan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:47 pm

Tyler wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:28 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:15 am

Yet another example of how the Value Stock Geek consistently sends an email with an email date about 2 weeks prior to it actually being sent.

I was in the email box yesterday and it had nothing left in it about 24 hours ago. The email was not there. Today it is with a 2/21/24 date.

My educated guess is that it’s related to the fact that VSG makes his podcasts available to subscribers 2 weeks before he makes them public.

A pretty big oops on his part to have this happen.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:49 pmWhen I asked someone his opinion of why they did this ... he hypothesized they did it so that their emails would be the top ones (first ones) in your In Box.

Xan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:30 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:49 pmWhen I asked someone his opinion of why they did this ... he hypothesized they did it so that their emails would be the top ones (first ones) in your In Box.

Huh. At least for me it means there's approximately zero chance I would ever know it had existed.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:21 pm

Xan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:30 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:49 pmWhen I asked someone his opinion of why they did this ... he hypothesized they did it so that their emails would be the top ones (first ones) in your In Box.

Huh. At least for me it means there's approximately zero chance I would ever know it had existed.

Explain yourself further?

Xan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:28 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:21 pm

Xan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:30 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:49 pmWhen I asked someone his opinion of why they did this ... he hypothesized they did it so that their emails would be the top ones (first ones) in your In Box.

Huh. At least for me it means there's approximately zero chance I would ever know it had existed.

Explain yourself further?

Currently my inbox goes back to 2020. A new email appearing at a random point in the middle would be a needle in a haystack that I wouldn't even know to go looking for.

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:21 am
A lot of email is sorted by newest first, Vin.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:59 am Do email programs give you the choice of either newest or oldest first?

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:59 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:21 am A lot of email is sorted by newest first, Vin.

If what you say is true then those older date emailers are doing the exact wrong thing.

Do email programs give you the choice of either newest or oldest first?

I just checked with my ancient Eudora email which I use for person. It always has oldest on top.

I don't have the Office 365 Outlook open that I use for business but I know it has newest on top. But without it being open cannot check to see if that can be reversed so that oldest is on top.

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:15 am
He’s on twitter @ValueStockGeek
Maybe you could ask him what’s up if you have an account there.

Tyler wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:28 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:15 am

Yet another example of how the Value Stock Geek consistently sends an email with an email date about 2 weeks prior to it actually being sent.

I was in the email box yesterday and it had nothing left in it about 24 hours ago. The email was not there. Today it is with a 2/21/24 date.

My educated guess is that it’s related to the fact that VSG makes his podcasts available to subscribers 2 weeks before he makes them public.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:29 am

Tyler wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:28 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:15 am
Yet another example of how the Value Stock Geek consistently sends an email with an email date about 2 weeks prior to it actually being sent.

I was in the email box yesterday and it had nothing left in it about 24 hours ago. The email was not there. Today it is with a 2/21/24 date.

My educated guess is that it’s related to the fact that VSG makes his podcasts available to subscribers 2 weeks before he makes them public.

The "educated guess" wins the prize!

He responded quickly to my email to him yesterday:

"The podcasts are released behind a paywall for two weeks, then they go wide. So if you're a paying subscriber, you get early access to the episode on substack. Then, they get emailed out to the free audience 2 weeks later.

Question I still have is I'd always thought that my Eudora email showed the date that I received the email, not the date that they were sent. Also, how does it have a February 28 date if it is not sent until March 13?

Xan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:48 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:29 am

Tyler wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:28 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:15 am

Yet another example of how the Value Stock Geek consistently sends an email with an email date about 2 weeks prior to it actually being sent.

I was in the email box yesterday and it had nothing left in it about 24 hours ago. The email was not there. Today it is with a 2/21/24 date.

My educated guess is that it’s related to the fact that VSG makes his podcasts available to subscribers 2 weeks before he makes them public.

The "educated guess" wins the prize!

He responded quickly to my email to him yesterday:

"The podcasts are released behind a paywall for two weeks, then they go wide. So if you're a paying subscriber, you get early access to the episode on substack. Then, they get emailed out to the free audience 2 weeks later.

Question I still have is I'd always thought that my Eudora email showed the date that I received the email, not the date that they were sent. Also, how does it have a February 28 date if it is not sent until March 13?

It's actually not terribly easy for a mail client to operate on the date a message was received. The message stored on-disk in your mailbox probably doesn't have a "date received" header, whereas every message has a "date" header which is set by the sender side usually at the time of sending.

Picture physical mail: each letter you receive is (presumably) dated, but in order to sort your mail in the order it was received, you have to put it in a stack which is never modified (not really an option for mail clients since they aren't in control of what's happening on the server) or attempt to use postmarks to guess when each was received. Most of the time the guesses will be right because most email is received shortly after being sent.

In this case, the message is being composed and then sent 2 weeks later. I think it's weird that the message doesn't have a header giving the date it was sent rather than the date the message was composed. If I were advising this guy it's something I would insist on fixing.