I am looking into investment again, so that is what I captured in my research.
I have heard about at least one billionaire hoarding nickles. Looking into it further lead to this marvelously interesting article on the work done to change the alloy. (Also, some analysis of hoarding a million dollars in nickles).
I thought that maybe healthcare as a sector would be protected against inflation. Turns out that is almost certainly wrong.
If I hadn't moved into different intellectual circles, I wouldn't know that Netflix isn't very much in China, but instead is growing in India and Japan. Whether that is deliberate strategy or there are forces barring their way, the article doesn't say.
The great puzzle of our time: why so many bonds with negative interest rates around the world? (including now negative interest rates for "junk" ie "high yield" bonds). I like this short memo on the topic.
I wrote two popular pieces on r/leanfire, one about leaving my job, and the second about the aftermath.
I suggest r/BottleNeck for people who wants to learn about peak energy without fear porn.
I took a quick stab at answering the question of how many of the Celtics in 1960s are in the Hall of Fame based just on team success and reputation. This then manifested someone showing me the work done more rigorously.
A hot take on the possibility of negative interest rates in the U.S. (see above).
Musings on why most people don't really know what makes for a good manager.
Reminder that our culture is a wasteland.
I saw A Narcissist's Prayer :
That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did... You deserved it.
Aphorisms/Shorts
What conservatives don't understand is that only artificial things can be as clean as they want.
Liberals prefer to be liberal with other people's money, and conservatives prefer to be conservative with other people's morals. Oh, I'm now an old man, fighting last generation's war. Now right-wingers also prefer to be right-wing with other people's money and leftists prefer to signal leftism about other people's morals.
Space travel isn't going to be colonization. It is going to be white flight.
I love bad decisions; I could watch them all day.
The argument that it was better to build a school than a prison might have been true. But now, in order to pay for the care of the richest generation in human history, we will soon have money for neither.
The way the ideas of Buddhism spread through the West was basically self-help for affluent people.
"Why bother explaining if the audience always sees it as a starting point for a win-lose debate rather than an opportunity to learn?" Jacob Lund Fisker, hallow be his name.
"Anxiety is paying interest on pain, but if you catch it in time, you only have to pay the principal." Ran Prieur
