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What can the greatest hitter in baseball history teach you about building a portfolio? More than you'd think.
In this episode, we dig into The Science of Hitting — the 1970 classic by Ted Williams, the last player to bat over .400 in a major league season, a record that has stood for eighty-four years and counting. Warren Buffett has referenced this book for decades. We finally go beyond the headline and mine it for everything it has to offer investors.
We start with the track record, because process without results is just theory. Williams played twenty-two years, lost nearly five of them to two wars, flew thirty-nine combat missions in Korea, and still won a batting title at age forty. That longevity wasn't physical — it was systematic. And that's exactly what makes this book worth your time.
From there, we cover the lessons that translate most directly to value investing:
Why the hitter — and the investor — is the biggest variable in the outcome
The 77-cell strike zone, your circle of competence, and what a .230 pitch looks like in a portfolio context
Why Williams took the first pitch in almost every at-bat for the last decade of his career — and what that means when there are no called strikes in investing
How to adjust when your judgment is clouded and the conditions aren't right to swing
If you've heard Buffett mention Ted Williams and always meant to read the book — this episode is for you.
19 May 2026
What We Can Take Away from Grinding Away in Sports: Applying Lessons from Sports to Investing
How is navigating the unpredictable highs and lows of the stock market just like enduring a long, grueling competitive season in sports? It turns out, surviving both requires the exact same mental stamina.
In this short, focused episode, we share an excerpt from Starvine Capital's H2 2025 Investment Commentary: "What We Can Take Away from Grinding Away in Sports: Applying Lessons from Sports to Investing." While sports and investing might seem like entirely different worlds, the mental frameworks required to succeed in both are strikingly similar. Drawing from sports psychology, iconic athletes, and collegiate wrestling experience, this episode breaks down five powerful behavioral lessons that every long-term investor needs to master.
In this episode, you’ll learn about:
Focusing on the Process, Not the Outcome
Standing Out to Excel
Handling Inevitable Setbacks
The Circle of Competence & "Transfer"
Absolute vs. Relative Progress
Whether you are a seasoned investor or just starting to build your wealth, this episode offers an anecdotal yet highly substantive look at the mental stamina required to win the long game.
12 Dec 2025
What I Learned About Investing From Darwin - Part 3: Don't Be Lazy - Be Very Lazy
In this episode of Value Investing: The Starvine Way, we wrap up our three-part deep dive into Pulak Prasad’s "What I Learned About Investing from Darwin" — and tackle the most counterintuitive pillar of his philosophy:
“Don’t be lazy… be very lazy.”
At first glance, that sounds like standard investing advice: trade less, be patient, let compounding work. But Prasad goes much deeper. Drawing on evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium, and decades of real-world investing results, he explains why short-term volatility is often meaningless — and how inactivity, when applied to the right businesses, becomes a powerful competitive advantage.
In this episode, we explore:
Why evolution (and business) changes rapidly in the short term but stabilizes over long periods
The Grant–Kurtén Principle of Investing (GKPI) — using short-term “shocks” to buy, not sell
Real case studies like WNS, Thermax, and Page Industries that show how rare buying windows drive outsized returns
Why Prasad almost never sells — and the only three reasons he ever does
How most wealth is created by a tiny handful of companies, held for very long periods
Why focusing on IRR often sabotages true multi-baggers
How boredom, patience, and doing nothing separate great investors from merely smart ones
We also cover why:
Creative destruction is slower than most people think
Stock price movement is not the same thing as business change
The biggest gains happen on a tiny fraction of trading days — and you only capture them if you stay invested
I’ll also share where my own approach slightly differs when managing real client portfolios — especially around valuation and concentration risk — while still embracing the core lesson: great businesses deserve time, not tinkering.
This episode is about resisting the urge to act, tuning out noise, and letting compounding quietly do its work — even when it feels uncomfortable, boring, or downright wrong.
If you’ve ever:
Sold too early
Traded too much
Or confused price movement with business reality
…this one’s for you.
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