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 […]
Inoculation Against Demons
Economic Article I read an interesting article in an economic blog recently and it says that there is a sharp increase, or there has been a sharp increase in the number of exorcisms in the recent years. It had a couple of explanations as to why this is. The most common explanation is that […]
Social Status and Wealth
Ancient Vikings There’s not a lot known about bronze era Scandinavians because way back in the bronze era which, was before about 1200 BC, there was never a large enough population to create lasting infrastructure that historians and archaeologists can look at and try to piece together what kind of society they had. All […]
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 […]
Meta Levels of Consciousness
Blood Work One of the jobs that blood has as it moves through the body is to deliver oxygen to the cells of the muscles and pick up CO2 and take it to the lungs to exhale. Then when it drops off the CO2 with the lungs to exhale it picks up 02. Then […]
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 […]
Magic Book Of Wisdom
Party In The Hills I was invited to a party a few weeks ago. It was a party that was being held by a friend of a friend, perhaps a friend of a friend of a friend. I was assured it was going to be a fantastic party. The guy that told me about […]
Non Normal Investments and Wealth Planning
Investment Documentary I watched this pretty cool documentary the other night on non-mainstream investments. It started off by saying the two most common investments be will make is their home and the stock market. For most people their biggest investment is going to be their home. This already indicates that most people when they […]
Duck Pond Hallucination
Shut Up! The other day I was sitting in my apartment and I noticed a lot of noise suddenly coming from next-door. My first response was to get very very angry then I remembered that somebody had slipped a piece of paper through my mail slot a week or so ago. I looked through […]
Relationship Success
Rich Old Couple I met this interesting couple couple of weeks ago. They’re a very older couple very very wealthy there were several hundred million dollars. When I, before I met them, I had this kind of assumption the man was the successful business person and the wife more or less spousal support that […]