Shoe Repair There is this old shoe repair shop in my neighborhood. The dude that runs the place is in his late seventies. His son, who’s in his forties is going to take over I guess when he dies. I saw this PBS documentary on YouTube. It started out as a human interest […]
Trade Magic Economics
Shoe Trader I read this story about a guy. He got a pair of shoes for Christmas or something. He kept them in the box. Then like six months later, he traded them for a skateboard. But then he kept the skateboard. Didn’t use it. And traded it for something else. And he kept […]
Mind Portal Music Flow
Downtown Trip I had to go downtown recently. I had to file some paperwork. I probably could have done it online, but I wanted to make sure. I talked to a couple of people on the phone and I kept getting different answers. Besides they have a pretty good area next to the city […]
Black Magic Vitamin C
Health Food Store I went down to my local health food store recently. I wanted to buy some powered vitamin C. I used to live in a country with undrinkable water. We had to boil it first in these big tea pots. It gave it a metal taste. Weekend Workshops […]
Serial Killer Hobby
Seize The Opportunity I recently bought this house under some pretty strange circumstances. The original owners, or the previous owners left it in foreclosure. Then this guy and his team bought it, with a bunch of others, and they were going to sell all of them to a big rental company. That’s apparently a […]
Reversions To The Mean
Moving Averages Stock charts are a fascinating combination of technical and mathematical specificity and human psychology. One one hand they can be a very accurate representation of a company’s health. On the other hand, they are a pure expression of human psychology. One way to look at a chart is to compare the day […]
Feasts And Famines
Alternative Health There’s been a lot of interesting articles recently in the area of alternative health. Alternative health is kind of a misnomer because once upon a time doctors were these people that knew a lot of information that was useful to become healthy. That was useful to change your behaviors to become healthy. To […]
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 […]
Origins Of Long Game
End of The Stone Age There are two major discoveries in human history that essentially have informed human society ever since. The very first was the change that stopped the Stone Age and began the Bronze Age. Most historians believe this happened accidentally. If you think about how they get bronze, they find bronze […]
Ancient Black Magicians
Movie About Financial Collapse A couple of weeks ago I saw a movie that was a very shallow metaphor about the financial crisis from 2008. There was a scene in the movie that is similar to many scenes in many movies where they have the expert looking at another character and explaining to this other […]
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