Hello everyone! Hope your teams did better than the Falcons on Sunday! You may already know that I quit work to travel for an entire year. You may not be aware that I’ve met many Americans and Canadians while abroad. These people include recent graduates, who have chosen to travel first before starting a job. Others are people…
Time is money. If a person can earn 10 shillings per day through his work, but spends sixpence on diversion, or is idle for half the day, that should not be considered as his only expense. He has actually spent or wasted five shillings. Ben Franklin Ben Franklin’s 1748 essay advice to a young tradesman, “Time…
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “luck” as ” an event or circumstance that works for or against a person. “ It is easy to identify good and bad luck: It is good luck to bet on red and have the ball land on Red 23, The ball rolling into Red 23 and then ricocheting back to Black 10…
Recently, I did some math and found that I have been on 44 planes since August 24, 2021. These flights included overnight flights from Atlanta to Europe or South America. Others were Ryanair flights in Europe at a discount of $15. And a few were Spirit Airlines flights from and to Vegas. I flew on average once…
While reflecting on my 8 month trip abroad over the past year, I decided a couple of weeks back to read Rolf Potts Vagabonding. The opening of Chapter Two is a very sobering passage. “There is a story from the Desert Fathers tradition, an order Christian monks that lived in the deserts of Egypt around seventeen…
In the history of the financial markets, no one has ever invested in something with the thought, “Man, this is going to be so painful.” We don’t always make money. Sometimes we even lose money when investing. You may have purchased Meta stock prior to its price being cut in half due to the company’s slowing…
It’s not internal bleeding, failed surgeries, or ineffective rehabilitation that causes the most surgical complications. The most common surgical complication is prolonged opioid use post-surgery. This is not a surprising phenomenon. Patients are in excruciating pain after surgery. Doctors prescribe OxyContin to ease this pain. OxyContin relieves pain by releasing dopamine, which floods our brains with “feel-good chemicals”. Dopamine…
After reading a Washington Post article about American loneliness two weeks ago, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The tl:dr is that Americans spend more alone time than ever. This article contains some shocking statistics: The decline is similar when “friends” are expanded to include co-workers and clients. In 2010, the average American spent 15 hour per…
Financial markets in the last few years have been anything but usual. GameStop’s share price was $400 (pre-split). Nikola Motors briefly had a value greater than Ford. NFTs were valued at millions. The most crazy market moment of the pandemic period wasn’t a cryptocurrency, meme stock or SPAC. Sweet, sweet crude was the market’s most insane moment. The oil…
. In a previous post, I said that “the things you’ve read and your experiences” are the two most valuable inputs to any writer. “ People often ask for book suggestions, and I am always asking for them. Today I want to share some books that changed my life. I hope you enjoy it. The Search for Meaning…
