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Wisdom versus Knowledge

  • Quote about Gold, Silver, Barter, and Debt

    Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves. Norm Franz, Money & Wealth in the New Millennium: A Prophetic Guide to the New World Economic Order This was a comment left on a Youtube video.

    October 13, 2026
  • Never Argue, Never Debate

    From an X post: “Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.” That’s exactly how I view debating a Palestinist over “genocide,” the history of Israel and Palestine, or whether Jews are somehow “invaders” in their own land. Other than giving them a look that says, “You cannot possibly…

    August 24, 2026
  • Learn to Say No (Idea)

    Learning to say no, is the hardest thing to do. https://markmanson.net/breakthrough/174-saying-no-hard

    August 12, 2026
  • Measuring Your Success

    How do you define success? When you look back on your life, how do you measure if you’ve achieved some degree of success? I was watching a webcast with Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, entitled “I’m 80 and I wasted 25 years of my life. Don’t make my mistake. – Howard…

    August 7, 2026
  • Revolution and Bureaucracy

    “Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.” ― Franz Kafka

    February 4, 2026
  • Losing Someone Twice (STUB)

    We use the phrase “losing a parent” when they pass away, but often we lose them years earlier, due to dementia. By the time they pass away, you’ve already lost them for many years. Random thoughts:

    December 30, 2025
  • The Price You Pay

    One of the greatest tech innovation of our time is Shazam, a smartphone app that listens to a song, and in seconds gives you its details. (Nobel committee are you paying attention? Try it sometime!) Anyway, I was watching an episode of the TV show “Landman“, when they played a song that struck me as…

    December 30, 2025
  • Everything has a Price (STUB)

    December 30, 2025
  • How to chair a meeting (OUTLINE)

    Or “The wisdom of Linda Hausdorff” When I became the president of my temple, I asked a friend how I should run the monthly board meetings. She gave me a few, simple rules:

    November 25, 2025
  • Why do people keep trying to jam a square peg into a round hole? (DRAFT)

    When someone doesn’t like the way you do something, they will comment and tell you the “correct” way to do it. When you don’t do it the way they like, they keep telling you how to do it “right”. Expand on… Do they listen to you when you tell them why you do it your…

    June 11, 2024
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