Munger on Elon Musk is spot on.
When bubbles rule
A very effective response to Jordan Peterson’s worldview
The five stages of decline for companies
Then a subtle change occurred that was worse than the missed forecasts. We lost confidence in our ability to plan and control the business. We stopped believing that we could get the numbers to work. A dispassionate look at the numbers for the past three to five years would have revealed the trends to us.
Do brands need ‘purpose’ or just need to add value?
“I challenge the idea that only people whose careers have been entrenched for decades in the limitations of the mind-set that drove us into this ditch are the only ones we should consider qualified to take us out of the ditch.”
CEOs Are Redefining the Role of Business in the World
What capitalism really is
Ross Douthat captures the cultural power of Williamson
By placing prophecy over policy, Williamson scares people
AMERICAN politics is flummoxed by spirituality
A cynical profile of Williamson, but still gets her essence
Maureen Dowd gets it right on AOC
What Marianne Williamson Can Teach Every Democratic Candidate For President
Like other self-help figures, she overemphasizes the power of individuals to solve intractable issues. Yet she is rare in applying this ideology to the political sphere, particularly to promote progressive policy. In Williamson’s view, self-help can heal the whole body politic; what benefits one can and should be directed to benefit all.
Marianne Williamson: the ‘leftwing Trump’ preaching the Politics of Love
How Much Money It Takes to Be Rich
Your Questions About FIRE, Answered
How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank
How a 30-something couple got rich and retired by not joining home ownership ‘cult’
Wealthy 30-somethings doling out financial advice breed online hate
Mcdonald’s Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money
Thanatos is the force of self-preservation in us. It is quite happy to watch the whole world burn down — as long as we stand atop the embers. Thanatos is the need in us for superiority, for conquest, for primacy.
The Earth’s resources are limited, but those limits are the limits of the Earth and the limits of our abilities. And there are no known limits to our abilities — we humans are not merely gatherers of a fixed supply of resources; we are discoverers and creators of a potentially unlimited supply of resources.
Do you think there is a real scarcity of economic resources and what is the evidence?
Why we need people to keep doing better
Economic Nonsense: 8. The world is running out of scarce resources
Nancy Pelosi’s Last Battle
‘All politics is local’ is not universal truth
Hillary isn’t apologizing
Common sense assessment of America’s middle class crisis
Philanthropy’s debt and tie to capitalism
A case for American-style capitalism
Just because I’m “richer”, doesn’t mean much — unless I have genuinely valuable things available to me in the first place. In America, for example, a millionaire can barely afford an organ transplant — but in Europe, everyone can.
Follow this tweaked golden rule: Talk to others the way you would want to be talked to.
When we rob everything of its meaning, this is what we get
No one builds a multi-billion dollar empire without some sort of savage determination and intense will to power … One accumulates power and then declines to use it in the face of existential threats
It’s well functioning society that creates economic value and growth, not just businesses
Inequality is an inevitable consequence of capitalism
How America Overdosed on Capitalism
How to Serve a Deranged Tyrant, Stoically
Africa already knew ‘democracy’ long before the West came
Economics is changing
This is dangerous. When you can’t imagine that your political opponents might possibly be right it dehumanizes them. It justifies the worst atrocities human beings are capable of.
Those of us who write newspaper columns know that sheer brilliance, should it happen, gets a silent nod of the head, but affirmation — saying what readers already think — gets loud hurrahs.
Pedophrasty, Bigoteering, and Other Modern Scam
He is talking about Hitler.. or Trump
The logical conclusion of political correctness
Hillary was so prepared
The dangers of ‘black agency’ storytelling
