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I keep reading articles and seeing various media mentions that highlight as gospel the WSJ poll that was the subject of my last post. The WSJ article claimed that America and Americans have undergone a terrible decline in values. My post showed that the WSJ article misrepresented…

Mar 29

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I’m a numbers guy, and I get upset when I see that numbers are not fairly represented. (I also get upset when I hear the phrase “very unique,” but…

Mar 28

America has cut off China from being able to buy the most advanced semiconductor chips, which experts say will be the key to Artificial Intelligence in…

Mar 27

A Monster Attacks My Son A human sized chipmunk once attacked my two year old son. We were eating at Chef Mickey’s in Disney World. Either Chip or Dale…

Mar 19

There are many good reasons to read Tim Urban’s excellent new book “What’s Our Problem?” One of them is how he hammers home the point, both with words…

Mar 15

A short addendum to my SVB post of yesterday. The insolvency of SVB is at least partially the result of an arcane accounting practice applied to assets…

Mar 13

There’s no shortage of news about the failure on Friday of Silicon Valley Bank, the country’s sixteenth largest bank. Much of the press is about who’s…

Mar 12

At some point, we discover that the course of our lives has been molded either by reactions against our upbringing, or by imitations of it, or, most…

Mar 5

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