prSelectionUi 2023.0 update with Python 3.0 support

A few months ago I released an update (2023.0) for prSelectionUi that supports Python 3 (Maya >2022.x). It also still works with older Maya versions (Python 2.0).

You can get it here: https://pazrot.gumroad.com/l/prselectionui

It still requires PyMEL to be installed, which sadly has become more difficult with the PyMEL installation switching to pip. I think that installation change was a bad call and I regret using PyMEL. The time I saved was not worth the time lost for the users, and I might now have to rewrite the script with maya.cmds anyways.

Common sense #1: Investing

Because the investing information market place is dominated by bad actors, which directly or indirectly promote bad investment behavior, I want to do my part by sharing my favorite educational material, which allows anyone to understand the underlying principles and resulting incentives. And as a result see through the noise and not act against their own interest.

Summary

good 

• total market index funds 
• minimize fees 
• minimize taxes 

mid 

• factor investing 
• leverage

bad 

• trying to beat the stock market 
• actively managed funds 
• stock picking (country picking, sector picking, dividend investing, ..) 
• market timing 

very bad 

• speculating on non productive asset prices (precious metals, crypto/nft)

Sources

Why total market index funds and not trying to beat the stock market: 

• (51 min interview) Jack Bogle on Index Funds, Vanguard, and Investing Advice 
• (Text) Jack Bogle: "The Relentless Rules of Humble Arithmetic" 
• (5 hour audiobook) Jack Bogle - The Little Book of Common Sense Investing 

Once you understand how trying to beat the stock market is a bad idea, you also understand that trying to beat the market of non productive asset pricing is an even worse idea.

Testimony

• (3 min video) Warren Buffett pays tribute to Jack Bogle 
• (6 min video) Warren Buffett - How to Invest in Index Funds 

Advanced

The only reasonable divergence, that I am aware of, to actually increase expected returns, but comes with major increase in risk, volatility and complexity:

• factor investing
• (7 min interview) Eugene Fama - Why Small Caps and Value Stocks Outperform
• (16 min video) Ben Felix - Small Cap and Value Stocks
• leverage: 
• (13 min video) Ben Felix - Investing With Leverage