Not sure what I’m going to call it, but it should start with a history of my beliefs
When I was a kid I read sci-fi Jules Verne
Now I read real stuff. I want to see how stuff works.
I want to know how something becomes what it is today
How cultures become what they are today
How it came to be that we live the way we live
How the interweaving of cultures produce what we have today
Food, music, culture, language
Leave a CommentLooking at future trends
Someone needs to make a target-dated ETF fund that invests in those products.
Example: Cat Lady ETF – Target Date 2030 – would invest in cat related products as more and more women will be single and live alone.
Another example: Social Security ETF – Target Date 2050 – would invest in dog food as retirees can’t afford to eat human food and resort to pet food.
Leave a CommentWe don’t speak the same language, use the same apps, watch the same TV, listen to the same music, read the same books. We’re living in the Tower of Babel.
Leave a CommentHappy New Year!
Leave a CommentIn the midst of the shutdown, it’s good to take a look at examples throughout history:
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Alan Dershowitz’ commentary on the new age of sexual McCarthyism
Leave a CommentGood WSJ article on the oil export boom currently underway:
“The export boom is testament to U.S. ingenuity that has driven rapid advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, especially in shale rock. The breakthroughs have lowered drilling costs and put Texas’s Permian Basin at the center of an oil-and-gas drilling revolution that will next year see the state producing more oil than either Iraq or Iran.
Washington also gets credit for removing regulatory hurdles like the oil export ban. Republican leaders in Congress took flak in 2015 for agreeing to extend green-energy subsidies for a few years in return for Barack Obama’s signature on a statutory end to the 40-year-old export ban.
Some conservative pressure groups derided the policy trade as a sellout while liberals complained that ending the ban would serve Big Oil. The real beneficiaries are workers, investors and the overall economy, as well as greater flexibility in foreign policy as the U.S. is less vulnerable to authoritarian oil exporters.”
With the talks of trade wars/tariffs I am reminded of Jack Ma’s interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos. From CNBC:
‘”The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization,” Ma said. “The past 30 years, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, they’ve made tens of millions — the profits they’ve made are much more than the four Chinese banks put together. … But where did the money go?”
He said the U.S. is not distributing, or investing, its money properly, and that’s why many people in the country feel wracked with economic anxiety. He said too much money flows to Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Instead, the country should be helping the Midwest, and Americans “not good in schooling,” too.’
Something to think about.
Leave a CommentEveryone is talking about Anthony Bourdain committing suicide.
Don’t see it as a big deal.
He decided to check out. On his own terms.
Why can’t you leave the party on your terms?
Leave a Comment1. Do your job.
2. Be attentive.
3. Pay attention to details.
4. Put the team first.
This is what “we look at every day when we walk into the building,” says Belichick.
“Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences,” he explains. “If you pay attention, and you’re coachable and you work hard, you’ve gotta improve. That’s really what it’s about for us.”