Sweaty Humans One of the strange things that separates us humans from the rest of the primates is that we don’t have much body hair. We also sweat, which is something no other animal does. And we have arched feet. Surprisingly, these three traits allowed us to do something very useful in our very ancient […]
The Boy Plunger
Dance Your Way To Riches There was this famous dancer back in the 50s. He traveled around the world. He would dance in various cities around the world and he would receive and send telegraphs from and to his broker. He would look at the various data from the stocks that he was watching […]
Investing Super Genius
Market Bubble Story A long time ago I used to work with the sky during a market bubble. This guy got a tip from a friend of his. The tip was by this stock it;s going to go up. There wasn’t much information. There wasn’t much reason, just by this stock it’s going to go […]
Origins Of Wealth
Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Two Types Of Money Cycles
Plasma Sales I used to have this friend in college that was very creative with how he found ways to make money. One of the ways he found was to sell his plasma. The thing about selling plasma is you can sell it every couple of weeks. It’s not like blood where you can […]
Future Visions
Restaurant I’ve been going to this restaurant for a few months now, and I just noticed something about it that I hadn’t noticed before. It’s kind of strange when you do this. You see the same area the same place many, many times but until something specific is pointed out you’ll never notice it. […]
Magic Love Money Algorithm
Library Trip The other day I went to my local library for a visit. I like to drop by sometimes because I like books and I like quiet spaces. Except when I went into the library there was some kind of a commotion. Not commotion more of a gathering. I eased up to the […]
Science Alchemy and ROI
Origins of Physics Physics was invented before chemistry. In fact Isaac Newton, the guy who wrote the very first book on physics is why we call non-quantum physics Newtonian physics. Isaac Newton was a proponent of alchemy. Today alchemy is usually thought of as a kind of magic to turn dirt into gold or […]
Genetic Dispositions
Mail Room Hero I have a friend of mine who is a CFO of a pretty big company. He recently explained to me how he came to be the owner of the company and I told him it was a fantastic story. I told him that he should hire a ghostwriter to write a […]
Time Value Of Money
Time Preference Derivation There is an idea and economics that involves thinking about money in two different ways. If you thought about having $1 million now versus having $1 million plus a little bit more in the future, there’s a point where the money that you imagine now versus that same amount of money plus […]
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