Joshua Kennon

Recent years have seen a surge of speculation that, by some measures, looks similar to the dot-com era.

From time to time, the writings of legendary thinker Peter Drucker have come up on this blog.

When it comes to getting the life, career, and financial independence you desire, one of the most effective tools you have at your disposal is understanding and internalizing what I call the power of questions.

Despite being fiction, Jane Austen's work has provided historians and economists an interesting reference point for wealth and capital arising from the fact that typical returns were between 4% and 5% per annum on agricultural land as well as sovereign bo…

For seventeen years, Ray Kroc sold paper cups, learning lessons he would later apply to McDonald's Corporation.

For several years, in order to keep an eye on system capabilities and where I think the societal A.I. investments are going (especially as it may or may not represent a threat to the existence of moats for long-term investments), I had a series of tests -…

For the past two or three weeks, I've found myself experiencing a strong sense of déjà vu.

One of the questions I get constantly, both in-person and online, is how we went about arranging our household once we became parents.

The Legend of Zelda, the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter, technology upgrades ... all the making of an excellent weekend.

As a big fan of different sub-genres of folk music, I was thrilled with Avi Kaplan's new release, Peace Somehow.

As I sit here working at my desk at 1:35 a.m., December 20th, 2024, I'm listening to a recording session of Levels by the Robert Glasper Trio feeling exhausted, but grateful, for a phenomenal year.

I have a bunch of earnings reports to read and as I work from home, I can't get Scarlatti's Sonata in D minor, K.64 / L. 58 / P. 33 out of my head.

Our real estate purchases in and around New Albany, Ohio continue.

I could hardly sleep Friday night because of excitement.

The paradox of 2024 for investors is that the stock market keeps getting more expensive but individual blue chip stocks are getting cheaper.

When we were originally furnishing our Missouri house, I came across a desk that I wanted to buy.

We are launching a podcast in the near-future, the landscaping is coming along nicely, and we continue making progress on transitioning to a more traditional design aesthetic as we buy up antique furniture on the secondary market.

The past month has been an adventure in many ways.

We continue to make progress on the house in New Albany.

First quarter 2024 was one of the best of our lives and careers.

Giving up all that avocado toast and those lattes seems to have added up in the end because Millennials are now wealthier than Baby Boomers were at the same age.

After a long search, we have selected New Albany, Ohio as our personal and business headquarters with all operations shifting in 2024.

As the United States returns to a normalized interest rate environment, things are going to get interesting.

In recent weeks, Aaron and I have come to realize our life is in the middle of another major transition; one so large and transformative that we have come to call it the "Second Founding" as a shorthand to describe the complete overall that is in the midst

Buried thousands of pages within its newly-enacted buget, the State of Ohio just quietly created a new Ohio Homeownership Savings Account program that allows individuals and married couples in the Buckeye State to take a tax deduction in exchange for savi…

After careful consideration, Aaron and I decided that the Kennon-Green & Co. office will feature mixed media works by Carol Benson-Cobb, a wonderful artist located in Dallas, Texas.

After a long period of neglect, Nintendo launched Metroid Dread, a return to the classic side-scroller model for the legendary franchise.

Aaron and I are ecstatic to share with you that our second son, Graham Forester Kennon-Green, was born through gestational surrogacy earlier this month.

Fueled by a combination of reinvested profits (realized and unrealized gains, dividends, and interest), net client contributions, and new private client relationships, our wealth management business has recently found itself entrusted with more than $105…

Aaron and I are ecstatic to share with you that our son, Dorian Alexander Kennon-Green, was born in mid-April.

The second car we ordered back in November finally arrived in time for the birth of the first baby, which is now only weeks away.

The news has been filled with stories about GameStop and other stocks with high "short" interests being squeezed in recent weeks so there is no point in me rehashing the specifics.

As I write this message, it is January 2nd, 2021.

Merry Christmas!

One afternoon last week, we decided to test a new Dutch Oven Tortellini Soup with Italian Sausage recipe while drinking eggnog and listening to Christmas music.

Aaron and I are beyond thrilled that in a little more than four months, we will welcome our first child into the Kennon-Green family!

We recently discovered that in 2017, the SpaceLab9 booth at New York Comic Con sold an extremely limited edition Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Ultimate Vinyl collection etched to look like the famous sweet rolls from the game.

Keeping an eye on numerous individual companies, as well as a broad array of economic data, I am far more optimistic about the next ten years than I was this time last month.

We started to see toilet paper (multiple varieties, sizes, etc.) as well as occasional bottles of Lysol appear at local stores, and beaches are once again full with people running, sailboats in the distance, and folks riding their bicycles.

Over the past year, one of my favorite tracks to listen to while I work is an instrumental piece by Iranian-born composer, producer, instrumentalist, and performer Sami Yusuf.

Several incredibly talented people collaborated on a disco-style track called "Kill the Lights" that Aaron and I have been listening to on endless repeat.

Unreal Engine 5 – one of the big video game development engines upon which the modern gaming industry is built – has been revealed.

Over the past few weeks, an interesting, and rather dramatic, development has occurred: A good minority of the population, often those in possession of what they deem to be stable incomes and sufficient savings, or who are otherwise cradled by some sort of

Given that so many of our family and friends can't travel to see us during this pandemic, Aaron and I wanted to share an early access glimpse into our asset management firm's new home.

Following our recent discussion in the past post on COVID-19, some good news has emerged: In a recent interview, Dr.

We need to have a hard conversation.

Along with 1 out of 2 Americans, including the entirety of the rest of the State of California, Aaron and I have been sheltering-in-place and practicing social distancing.

I've been watching, with increasing interest, the catastrophic market decline that has been playing out in antique case goods, furniture, decor, and other related historical items.

One of the things I've most disliked over the past three years since starting our asset management firm is that I've had little to no time to show you what is going on in our lives.

As we celebrated my 37th birthday today, I thought about three questions that Aaron and I have used in managing our lives that help us live better, avoid mistakes, and improve our outcomes.