A screenwriter’s currency is a finished script. Not an outline, a take, a beat sheet, a rough draft. A finished script. — David Lynch Once upon a time, Joe Rogan was not famous. He was doing standup comedy in 1988, hosting Fear Factor in 2001, and started his long form podcast in 2009. The Joe … Continue reading Build A Content Library
What about rapid growth in fundamentals? Well, over the past two decades, S&P 500 revenues and U.S. nominal GDP have grown at just 4% annually. — John P. Hussman, Ph.D. (October 2021) If you want to know where we are in the economic cycle, I drove past a homeless man in a wheelchair in Baltimore … Continue reading Is Everything Crazy? Houses, Crypto, & The Stock Market
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.” — Charlie Munger Buckle up. If you live in the United States, the … Continue reading Freedom.
The most general survey shows us that the two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the other. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent oscillation between the … Continue reading The Two Causes of Human Unhappiness
Spillin’ free wine, now my tux is ruined — Kanye West, Real Friends Should you pay $12 for a bottle of water? It felt wrong. I woke up at the W Hotel in Austin, Texas and I was severely hungover. The Fiji water was sitting there on the mini bar. It was $12. This was … Continue reading The Cheap $12 Bottle of Water
The time to be emotional is when… Continue reading Emotional Decisions
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, Vincent van Gogh (1889) It can be stated, with practically no qualification, that people in general do not know how to listen. They have ears that hear very well, but seldom have they acquired the necessary aural skills which would allow those ears to be used effectively for what … Continue reading Listen Rigorously.
Wow. That single syllable, above all else, is what sells homes in the Goldbergs’ neighborhood in Potomac, Maryland. — Daniel McGinn, House Lust: America’s Obsession With Our Homes Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things…I am tempted to think…there are no little things. — Bruce Barton Several years ago, I was … Continue reading Facilitating an Experience
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep ’til noon. Continue reading Narrative > Truth
The frequency of correctness does not matter; it is the magnitude of correctness that matters. — Michael Mauboussin, The Babe Ruth Effect A simple example makes the point: You and I are playing Blackjack at the ARIA in Vegas. We bet $10 per hand and win 100 hands in a row. We may get interviewed … Continue reading Of Course You’re Right…
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