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One Simple Trick to Make You Rich
A few years ago a young colleague posted this question on my firm’s work forum, “Can anyone recommend a good book for beginner investors? More for traditional stuff like stocks, bonds, etc. I’m pretty out of my element in that area, all its nomenclature and such. I need like the idiot level entry instructions.” In…
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War or Diplomacy: Language Matters
I speak and write only one language fluently. I know about a hundred words of Spanish and can pronounce it flawlessly. I can read German with the occasional help of a dictionary and speak it perfectly but never learned to converse in it fluently having never mastered using my limited vocabulary to convey what I…
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Trolling Considered Harmful (and Stupid)
I posted this on LinkedIn, to point out that certain people seem to think that any hand gesture is some kind of crypto Nazi sign of solidarity, which makes no sense. A fellow LinkedIn member came across it and reposted it to mock my take, and it has attracted over 16,000 views and 67 comments…
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The Con’s the Thing
Why do I go to cons? One reason is to hang out with like-minded people or at least with those who share many of my enthusiasms. But I can do those things at home. Some folks go to meet their heroes, writers they admire, but I’m old and I met Bradbury, Ellison, Sturgeon, Herbert, Zelazny,…
Musings of a Restless Mind 