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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Neuroscientist: How Caffeine Works and What It Does to Your Body (Video) Why I love coffee. (I have no idea how true any of this is, but it feels true). Closing Down the Billionaire Factory The world of private equity is a parasite on the …
Clearly, there is a very low bar to shop at the local drugstore. If you are wearing a shirt and shoes (pants, I guess, are presumed), you can be a customer. Tellers can handle 20 customers (or more) in an hour without knowing anything about each customer. Professional service firms routinely spend multiple or even …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web On Sarcasm I was a caustically sarcastic teenager. I made the decision to be nicer in college and dropped sarcasm. Now, people act like I just don’t get it when I don’t appreciate sarcasm. Anyone else? Misinformation Is Here To Stay (And That’s OK) Not …
There is a lot of negative news out there right now. Inflation is the worst it has been in 4 decades, there may be a recession around the corner (we may just be waiting for the National Bureau of Economic Research to verify what the 2 quarters of negative GDP has already told us), supply …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Reading The News is the New Smoking For most of us, a reduction in news consumption would probably lead to better decisions and greater happiness. Why Optimists Live Longer Than The Rest Of Us I believe this research, but I’m not sure it’s helpful. I …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World We don’t see the whole picture. We build the world on top of our own filtered experience. How to Be a Little Less Judgmental It takes an indescribable amount of energy to judge everything. It’d be best for …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web How a Massive Refinery Shortage is Contributing to High Gas Prices Would you invest in a horse & buggy company after you saw the first automobile come off the line? High gas prices are a feature of the transition to renewable energy. The First Global Credit Crisis …
The S&P 500 declined 23.6% from it’s all-time high of 4,796.6 on January 3rd to a closing low (so far) of 3,666.8 on June 16th. The index finished its worst first half since 1970 at 3785.4. The violence of the decline peaked in mid-June when the market ran off a streak of five out of …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck: Survey My mom might say, “Cry me a river.” We need an income, and that income should grow throughout our lives. But financial success has never been just about what we earn. Oliver Burkeman’s Last Column: The Eight Secrets to …
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