Understanding and interpreting information

Episode notes In this week's Episode Allan considers the importance of data, and how we can best work with it. Allan's thought for the week With reference to an interesting stockopedia article on their 2025 subscriber performance survey Allan considers the problems we face when trying to interpret even good quality material. The article can be found here Book of the week This week's book recommendation is designed to strengthen your mental models and help you get a better handle on all the data that surrounds us. It is: Think Clearly: eight simple rules to succeed in the data age, by Kiko Llaneras It's available from all good book shops, and some bad ones as well. Article of the week This week's article is more of a resource. UK.StockBrokers.com Announces Winners for the 2026 Annual Awards You can find the awards directly here Podcast of the week This week's podcast recommendation is Episode 39 of the Decision Education podcast, 'Bulls, Bears, and Biases with Howard Marks' You can find it on Apple Podcasts here or search for it on your podcast player of choice. Support the show If you want to support the podcast you can: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or your platform of choice Buy me a coffee Help us both by trying out one of my discount codes: Host your podcast with PineCast using my referral code r-b2ac67 Keep in touch Email the show Visit the website over at smallinvestortoolbox.com Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky Music and sound effects Bossa Antigua Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sound effects from https://quicksounds.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.