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Lutke is a German who has lived in Canada for decades. Why comment on American tax policy ? Seems out of his lane .

As an American who proudly claims her watch “O mio bambino caro” on YouTube. I’d recognize her version anytime. Angelic. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l1C8NFDdFYg&ra=m

Read the Wikipedia page on the sunk cost fallacy. Knowing what you know now , would you have continued down this path ? The biggest costs are always opportunity costs and investing…

Working on a streamlit app this second... I think its death has been exaggerated.

Your instincts are good here. Whatever complexity Pizza Hut has it comes from being the weakest of the Yum! Brands siblings — KFC carries the international profit, Taco Bell owns d…

Scott Adams died today. I want to acknowledge something complicated. He always felt culturally like family to me. His peaks—the biting humor about corporate absurdity, the writing …

Tyler Cowen's GOAT book explores this in depth. Try it out! https://goatgreatesteconomistofalltime.ai/en

One factor is definitely underreporting. Several “accidental deaths” in the 1950s were code for suicide.

Only about half of Americans who go to college finish their degree. The saddest part of the college debt crisis are the kids with debt and no degree to pay it off.

And all available from Project Gutenberg! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/40 If you are looking where to start, Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren's "How to Read a Boo…

The patent for Ozempic was filed nearly 20 years ago: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8129343B2/en?oq=US812934... Ozempic’s FDA approval was in 2017, the same year transformers…

Tax planning can help here. By converting the house to ownership by a tax-advantaged trust , a family absolutely can continue to extract rent from a former property without selling…

Classic PE healthcare playbook hitting a wall: governance red flags (board resignations over antitrust violations), Medicaid exposure nobody’s buying their hedge on, and 5x leverag…

Good marriages are built on aligned goals : what kind of family you want, the balance between spending now and saving for the future, how you spend your time . Focus finding a part…

I feel this article acutely. My mother has a house full of antiques, fine china, and silverware that she values enormously but has essentially zero market value. Most pieces wouldn…

Miami and New Orleans are about 1800 km from New York. Denver is 2600 km from New York.

Tom Lehrer's tribute to Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel is magical. Absolutely worth the 4 minutes to listen to a woman who seduced most of the most creative men in the German-speaking …

Rimon Law is fantastic.

I can confirm - in the past three weeks, I requested a $5K raise in salary on offer and it was accepted in <20 seconds by hiring manager. This has a roughly $100K NPV. This is iden…

Education for kids with special needs is one place where the best schools can be 100x a median school - it’s worth contacting the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachusetts to u…

Would love to hear more about this. Indiscrete Thoughts is one of my favorite books.

Globe and Mail is Canadian.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’s classic strip , The Talk, is extremely well done. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3

Includes most of Tennessee as well - Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis and Chattanooga are in this group.