Maxims Tarriffs SimonDecember 15, 20180 Tariffs are taxes on commerce and when you tax something you get less of it....
Maxims The Meaning in Life SimonDecember 14, 20180 "Most people need to find meaning within structures they do not create." William Galston...
Maxims Gratitude One SimonDecember 13, 20180 "Gratitude, like interest, compounds." From Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs...
Ideas Laws vs Ethics SimonDecember 3, 20180 Laws come and go; ethics stay. Nassim Taleb From Skin in the Game...
Ideas Forecasting vs Speculation SimonNovember 26, 20180 Forecasting (in words) bears no relation to speculation (in deeds). Nassim Taleb Author of Skin in The Game...
Maxims Churchill on Negotiating SimonNovember 23, 20180 “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” Winston Churchill...
Ideas Rationalization SimonNovember 20, 20180 Humans have an almost bottomless capacity to convince themselves that they are right about whatever serves their...
Maxims Tinkering SimonNovember 19, 20180 "The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact...
Maxims A Daw SimonNovember 9, 20180 “I am no wiser than a daw.’ No wiser than a daw.” Shakespeare(Henry VI Act II) From Lincoln's Last Trial by...
Maxims Notes SimonOctober 26, 20180 “Notes are a bother.” Abraham Lincoln As quoted in Lincoln's Last Trial by Dan Abrams Notes are a "bother" for...