The third place in sociology refers to the environment that is separate from the usual two social environments, namely the home (“first place”) or the workplace (“second Place”). Churches, cafes and libraries have been the third places to meet others. With others. They provide a public space away from home and work where people can gather…
Easter Sunday is the most important day in the Bible for the two billion Christians who live on earth. Jesus Christ smashed death with a pump-fake and escaped the tomb. We celebrate by taking photos with men dressed in bunny outfits and sending kids on treasure hunts to find candy and eggs filled with…
As a child, I played all kinds of Mario games. You likely did too. You probably did as well. There was Mario Kart which put all your favorite Mario characters into a Grand Prix. A blue shell that was not timed correctly can ruin a victory. And Super Smash Bros is the greatest combat video game ever created. You’d be battling a Who’s…
Bloomberg published an article on February 12th 2021 titled: He Wants You To Know That He Is The Next Warren Buffett. Chamath Palihapitiya was the man in question. Chamath did not shy away from his label. In an interview with Front Row, the investor stated, “Nobody is going to listen” to Buffett. There must be others who can…
Two stories about celebrities. Johnny Manziel, two days after turning 20, was at the top of his game. As a rookie quarterback, still one year from reaching the legal drinking-age, Johnny Manziel set conference records and knocked Alabama off their pedestal in 2012. He won college football’s crown jewel, The Heisman Trophy, that same year. Many…
Elon Musk has a strange nerdy personality. He joked that he has Aspergers when hosting Saturday Night Live. He also regularly sleeps on the couches of his friends because he does not own a house. Elon Musk’s worth is $200B, too, because he cofounded Neuralink, OpenAI and SpaceX. He also founded X.com, which was…
The government will release the Q2 GDP figures this morning. This is likely to be around the time you read this article. Since the White House has set its own definition for a recession, it is likely that we’ll see a second quarter of negative GDP growth. We would normally call this recession. With tech stocks…
Kevin O’Leary lives a life most people could only imagine. He became a multi-millionaire after selling his business to Mattel, in 1999, eight years after he founded SoftKey. O’Leary earned millions from an investment in self-storage eight years later. He then launched O’Leary Funds – a mutual funds company – and O’Leary Ventures – an early…
Diego Maradona led Argentina to its second World Cup victory in eight years in 1986. The team defeated West Germany in the final round of football’s premier tournament. Maradona is still revered by his fellow Argentines as a deity. After 28 years, a new Argentine was at the top of football. Lionel Messi had returned the South…
In the first chapter of The Reality Bug the fourth novel of the Pendragon series, Bobby Pendragon is walking through Rubic City in Veelox, a foreign metropolis. Rubic City has paved streets, towering skyscrapers and is very similar to Bobby’s Earth. However, there is a striking difference. There are no people. Rubic City is a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, where the…
