I’m mostly a ground-up, fundamental, long-term investor. This means that I pick individual companies, analyze them quantitatively and qualitatively, and then decide whether or not to invest in them. I care little about short-term problems, and I view most financial media as noise. My focus is on the long-term growth prospects of the business, the quality of the products or services, the strength of the economic moat and of the balance sheet, the shareholder friendliness of the company culture, and the valuation of the stock in comparison to all of this.