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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…
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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…
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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…
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Did they really live happily ever after? (DRAFT)
As a child I remember being told the story of the “The Princess and the Pea“, a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Like all fairy tales, they lived happily ever after. That made sense to a child with limited world experience. Limited experience with people. But as an adult, I realize that in real…