“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support.”…
“Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws.” — Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) A few years ago, my furnace went out on Christmas Eve. Last week, my water heater went kaput on the eve of Thanksgiving. Unlike the furnace, which took a good four…
My presentation went well, but not as well as I would have liked. I forgot to say certain things, and I totally blanked on my last critical sentence. “As Maya Angelou said…” I fumbled around searching for it in my head. “Oh goodness, she said…oh goodness, she said…” My slides…
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”—Albert Einstein A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an Einstein lecture by Douglas Hofstadter. He researches how we create analogies and how they permeate our languages and creative thought processes in physics and mathematics. In his research, he found…
ew men have imagination enough for reality. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a majority rules, it feels like their beliefs and perceptions are grounded in facts and based on reality. But they are actually based on artificial constructs, on missing information, on things we don’t know and cannot see, on…
I just found out that Javier Milei was elected President of Argentina. At first, I was surprised. Then a little excited to see some change on the horizon, until it occurred to me that I was being taken for a lamb. It isn’t the first time that I’ve been tricked…
As mentioned in the previous post, I read Who Really Owns Your Gold by William Garner. I also read Discourse On Voluntary Servitude: Why People Enslave Themselves to Authority by Étienne de La Boétie from the 16th century, edited by William Garner. I had to let these rest, marinate in…
I read a wild book this weekend…Who Really Owns Your Gold by William Garner (fourth edition). It was published in 2016 and has some intriguing facts about the gold market’s history, and history in general. No doubt, it’s a page-turner and made me think…deeply…about many things. I have no relationship…
With holidays, and the start of the new year, I didn’t get a chance to announce my latest book, Study Abroad Map: The complete student guide to college beyond the USA. It’s really the fourth edition of Study Abroad 101, with a makeover that includes my new-founded investing knowledge. I…
“Outstanding, sophisticated, and mesmerizing…a spiritual intrigue similar to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.”—See the full professional review at ForeWord Love Evil: An Extraordinary Journey of the Heart by Wendy Williamson is a gripping tale of passion and peril, where love entwines with darkness in a heart-pounding odyssey. Follow a fearless…
“Outstanding, sophisticated, and mesmerizing…a spiritual intrigue similar to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.” —ForeWord Reviews
