“Parasites are not our enemies; they are reminders of our precarious place in the natural world.” —Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex Last week I came across an article: America is the Narcissist of the World. Over the past few decades, extreme narcissism and other psychological disorders have proliferated in…
“The world consists of Yin and Yang, and understanding this is crucial for anyone seeking to navigate life’s complexities.” Life is complicated. It seems that just when we think we’ve figured something out, the game changes. In Marketland, this usually starts with recency bias: a form of cognitive reasoning that…
“Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it enantiodromia, a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite.” –Carl Jung There’s nothing more fun than discovering!…
“It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” —Mark Twain When I went to visit my grandma as a young teenager, I remember showing off what I thought were my amazing superwoman skills. If you think I do…
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” —Henry David Thoreau I woke up Wednesday morning to a message in my inbox from Dr. Toby Rogers on the difficult conversation we need to have with each other. In this post,…
The global monetary system is a big blobby glob of sticky goo that somehow keeps on slugging along through endless waste and war. But stop what you’re doing and listen. Chirp, chirp, chirp…peep, peep, peep…chitter, chitter, twitter, twitter, TWEET! On April 30, Fortune published an article: Why Japan’s currency is…
“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” —J.P. Morgan Last week, I had the opportunity to listen to a Steve St. Angelo interview, and it occurred to me that at some point in recent history, we edited reality and formed a new story that we then mistook for truth. Steve…
When I lived in Italy, my colleague used to point out a town to me that didn’t use money. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the name of the town, but it was on the way to Castiglione della Pescaia from our home in Badia a Passignano. It was quaint, small, and…
When I was a college student at Indiana University in Bloomington, I often went to Collins Hall for lunch. Later I learned that Collins was where lived the infamous Jim Jones who led a mass suicide of 918 people in Guyana, on November 18, 1978. At his direction, followers in…
It was my last night in Malaysia, on the way back from dinner. I stopped to get some fruit and a fresh coconut across the street from the hotel. While waiting for the salesman to harvest it for me, I couldn’t help but notice the contrast. To my left was…
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