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Sunday, May 22, 2022

Advice to a Recent Graduate (and everyone else too)

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As it is currently graduation season, I was recently asked on-the-spot to provide some advice to a recent graduate. Below is what I came up ...

WWCF: War of the Future

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Which will come first? Intentional detonation of a nuclear weapon as an act of war or A battle with robots fighting robots as the dominant f...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

The (False) Law of Conservation of Effort and Reward

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Most people seem to think within the framework of a supposed "law of conservation of effort and reward" (LCER) and its corollary ...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Knowing Your Business Means Knowing Your Costs

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[ Sister post to The Accountants Can't Make You Rich ; consider this the counterpoint to that post. ]  To understand your business, you...
Sunday, May 1, 2022

The Accountants Can't Make You Rich

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In business cost per unit may be the ultimate metric. Accountants focus on in decreasing the numerator. Marketers focus on increasing the de...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Choose: Stocks and Bonds or Bitcoin and Cash

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Over lunch this past week an interesting hypothetical was posed.  Suppose you were offered one of the following, which would you choose:  On...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

If you've ever handled a penny, the government's got your DNA.

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File this under:  Wanted: new conspiracy theories—all ours came true . When DNA testing and genomic profiling was first rolling out as a mas...