Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Beware taking financial ques from people playing a different game than you are." - Morgan Housel

"I work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, from the past 15 years. People still call me lucky." - Elon Musk

"IYIs, Intellectuals Yet Idiots, favor things that work in theory but not in practice to things that work in practice but not in theory." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway

The Motley Fool's Simple Recipe for Financial Wellbeing

Work hard.

Don't spend too much.
Save the difference.
Invest.
Low costs. 
Long term.

Really isn't more complicated than that.

The Motley Fool's Simple Recipe for Financial Wellbeing

Work hard.

Don't spend too much.
Save the difference.
Invest.
Low costs. 
Long term.

Really isn't more complicated than that.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Dilbert's Unified Theory of Everything Financial. Good to revisit this advice from time to time.

-  VDH: The Wages of Trump Hatred

- The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so late.

- Matt Taibbi on how Covid is effecting the very bedrock of our judicial system - the right to a trial by jury

The Motley Fool's Simple Recipe for Financial Wellbeing

Work hard.
Don't spend too much.
Save the difference.
Invest.
Low costs. 
Long term.

Really isn't more complicated than that.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- FDR's masterful D-Day prayer

- Jordan Peterson - the Value of Beauty

- All four are white and all Democratic Governors oh and they have one other thing in common

- Cryo-electron microscopy has produced images of individual atoms in a protein for the first time. This could be a huge deal for both science and medicine.

- Protest in Hong Kong

- The Athletic lays off 8% of staff and institutes pays cuts across the board.

- The secret to long term wealth

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Interesting Naval fact

- Seneca on the shortness of time

- I love this financial parable. And no I don't own a Ferrari.

- Interesting study. May be time to start taking Turmeric/Curcumin supplements

- Heh heh

- The man who played Barney the Dinosaur now runs a tantric sex business. If you told me a famous Barney from the 1990's would be running a sex business - I would have put my money on Barney Frank.

- Saddened by the news of the passing of Ursula Le Guin. Truly she lived a full life.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- If this is a financial parable - what's the moral of the tale?

- Welcome home Astro Peggy! Home being the planet Earth of course.

- Speaking of space - why NASA's Curiosity Rover is prohibited from collecting water on Mars

- And speaking of Mars - why our immune system could keep us from reaching Mars

- Have a feeling these Barstool Sports' Goodell Clown Nose T-shirts are about to become big, big sellers in Dallas

- Heh heh

- Another tale of Houston bringing out the best in people

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thoughts I'd share.

- Interesting Vegas casino heist story

- Heh heh

- Simple recipe for financial well-being

- Fantastic profile of Howie Long from back in 1985

- 70 years later, red seat HR still awes