On The Power Moves forum, I initially shared some critical views of the West’s responsibility for the Ukrainian war. Unluckily, when the emotional flames burn high, it’s difficult for people to analyze things dispassionately. So, I decided to write a few lines about the mindsets and values behind my “flying above the war” stance. Incidentally […]
Over-achievers don’t focus on “habits”… … Because the biggest winners, the over-achievers are internally driven. They do not come up with habits, they do habits. Sounds nonsense? OK, let’s dig deeper. INTRO I’ve sometimes been surprised by the outsized success of Atomic Habits. Atomic Habits is an uber-popular book on how to start habits, and […]
To spoof a popular personal finance book, we may call this law: The poor scientist, rich charlatan law. Or, we also call it: They’re similar anyway.The law states that people who do and share good science are bound to be unknown, poor, and boring. And those who become famous and rich instead do or popularize […]
Look at that title. Does that sound like a racist title set up for provocative effect? Yeah… If you belong to the billion-members clubs of the virtue signalers, politically correct, and lobotomized disenlightned. In truth, to any clear and free mind, it should be plain logical that illegal migrants are more likely to rape, steal […]
I had a boss once who asked this question at job interviews: What would you like written on your tombstone? He liked to ask it, he said, because the answer to that question tells you a lot about people.“It’s important to want a great legacy”, he opined, so every “good” candidate should want a great […]
The whole discourse around abortion is set with the wrong frame. The question is not whether a fetus is already a human being and when it should be protected by the “sanctity of life” because the answer to those questions will never be definitive. Luckily, in this case, we don’t need to lose ourselves in […]
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