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You don’t exciting new ways to lose all your money, the old ways to lose all your money still work fine. Warren Buffett said that you can’t make a good deal with a bad person. When a new technology like cryptocurrency emerges, you see the same pattern that exists when other exciting new technologies like […]

Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. In the early years of computing, most programmers were women. When computers became important, men wanted in on it. Now most computer programmers are men, and they make a lot more at it than school teachers. In the 1820s 90 percent of teachers were male, but now 76 […]

You often see toothpaste commercials talk about dental hygiene, but no one talks about mental hygiene. If I eat salads and broiled chicken breast and drink water, I will look and feel different from a person who eats deep fried foods, has ice cream for desert and washes it all down with a giant coke. […]

There’s a trite question that people sometimes ask “what would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” It’s a silly question because if you said “I will start a car company that is better than Tesla” or “I will raise an army and conquer Europe”, what does that tell you?  If you pursued either […]

If you practice meditation, you will be exposed to Buddhist teachings.  One of the things that Buddhists encourage you to think about is that everyone you love will die.  Maybe not soon, but no matter how much you love your parents or your grandparents or your children or grandchildren, your love won’t save them.  You […]

If a genie offered you a free car, what would you pick?  Here are the terms, you can pick any car that you want, it can be a Ferrari, a Mercedes SUV, a Tesla, a school bus, but there’s a catch.  The catch is that it will be the only car that you have for […]

The Great British Baking Show and Iron Chef are competitions based on cooking.  Our society is very competitive and we don’t stop at competing at things like a foot race.  We find ways to make everything competitive.  Cooking isn’t supposed to be a competition.  It’s for killing the bacteria so you don’t die of food […]

What’s the difference between a hoarder and a collector?  Collectors collect things that others think are valuable.  Hoarders collect things that only they think have value.  Collectors tend to collect only one category of items, like model trains, but hoarders think everything should be collected (old typewriters, plastic bags etc.).  Hoarders are disorganized and collectors […]

We visited the liberty bell. It’s not just a bell, it’s The Liberty Bell. If you bother to read the many displays where it’s on display you will find out that most of what you know about the liberty bell is wrong. It wasn’t rung on July 4, 1776. It was a big bell in […]

Beware of averages!  If you shoot at a duck twice and the first shot lands a foot in front of it and the second one lands a foot behind, on average you killed it, but you won’t be eating duck tonight.  People love looking at averages because they want reassurance.  What’s the average home price […]