Meritless Pride – Blog Post 0026
A big mistake that people make is deriving their self-esteem and self-worth from the actions of others. This pride is a meritless pride. It is the pride of being Irish
Building Models and Developing Strategies for Finance and for Life – Blog Post 0025
What is a Model? A good model is a simplified but accurate representation of reality that can help us to better understand reality and to develop effective ways (strategies) of
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The Road to Self Actualization – Blog Post 0024
It’s only when we put our thoughts into written form that we can begin to have a better understanding of what we’re actually thinking. Thoughts are often fuzzy, scattered, unreliable.
Some Thoughts on Money – Blog Post 0023
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” – Henry David Thoreau Pursuing money for the sake of money is an empty pursuit and is guaranteed to leave
The Importance of Truth – Blog Post 0021
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein Truth is a tricky term to define but it’s important to
You Are Just A Copy of A Copy of A Copy – Blog Post 0020
Competition is an essential component of life and the main driving force behind evolution. Because resources are limited, organisms (including you) must compete for those resources in order to pass
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Capitalism and Cancer – Blog Post 0019
No one ever complains about having too much money. There is an asymmetry there. But why does that asymmetry exist? It is because money represents resources that one has extracted,
The Relativity and Fluidity of Ethics – Blog Post 0017
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire The ethics required to function
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Musings About Words, Language and Communication – Blog Post 0015
What are words? Words are the smallest structural and functional units of communication. Words are an abstraction, devoid of any specific and inherent meaning. This is easy to see as
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Beware of Charlatans & Quackery – Blog Post 0013
“Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson There is an epidemic of supposed “experts” that want to tell us how to eat, exercise, lose weight,