Bad Drivers.
As everyone knows, bad drivers turn what could have been a pleasant experience into an unraveling dystopia. Continue reading Bad Drivers.
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Book Review: On Grand Strategy
I never liked history class because I knew that memorizing in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue would never be USEFUL in the real world… Continue reading Book Review: On Grand Strategy
The Basics
People would rather pay (with money or their attention) for tips and secrets than eat salads and sleep eight hours each night. Continue reading The Basics
This Salad Tastes Too Good
Truth never damages a cause that is just. — Mahatma Gandhi It is a fact of life that the healthier a salad is, the worse it tastes. You already know how the majority of people cope with this. They dump cheese and dressing on it until it tastes good. Uninterested with a detailed consideration of the … Continue reading This Salad Tastes Too Good
Three Things Matter in Your Twenties
[Instead of telling kids they can be anything they want to be] Tell the kids the truth. You can be anything you’re good at…as long as they’re hiring. And even then it helps to know somebody. — Chris Rock, Tamborine (2018) How irritating would it be if you clicked something suggesting only three things matter … Continue reading Three Things Matter in Your Twenties
The Most Important Question
So there’s an iron rule that just as you want to start getting worldly wisdom by asking why, why, why, in communicating with other people about everything, you want to include why, why, why. Even if it’s obvious, it’s wise to stick in the why. — Charlie Munger The most important question we can ask … Continue reading The Most Important Question
Finance: Part 2 (Money, What Did You Expect?)
What’s the answer to 99 questions out of 100? Money. — Vanilla Sky (2001) In Part 1, we used sushi to introduce the fundamentals of finance, namely the time value of money and the related concept of risk vs. reward. We talked about why we would discount expected cash flows from the future to figure out … Continue reading Finance: Part 2 (Money, What Did You Expect?)
Finance: Part 1 (A Primer)
I’m glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It’s really come in handy this parallelogram season.— Sage Boggs, Twitter (2015) A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. … Continue reading Finance: Part 1 (A Primer)
Why You Should Plan a Heist
You can plan a pretty picnic, but you can’t predict the weather. — Outkast, Ms. Jackson (2000) The operative word in the title is plan. Don’t do a heist. If you need further persuading, watch the ending of Dog Day Afternoon. Besides, you can get much more money from bankers if you give them a colorful PowerPoint presentation. A … Continue reading Why You Should Plan a Heist
An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions
The world never tells you that you’re wrong; it only gives you outcomes. — Shane Parrish, Farnam Street Kierkegaard, in Either/Or, makes fun of the “busy man” for whom busyness is a way of avoiding an honest self-reckoning. You might wake up in the night and realise that you’re lonely in your marriage, or that you need … Continue reading An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions
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