[Market downturns are more the norm than exception, yet bull market gains often make up for them in multiples.]
[Market downturns are more the norm than exception, yet bull market gains often make up for them in multiples.]
This is another general rule of trading: you don’t necessarily make money by being right, but by being right when others are wrong.
Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show!
[Growing up in abusive households make you sensitive to your environment to the point where I knew by the sound of his footsteps whether or not my stepfather was coming home drunk.]
[You’ll be surprised at how often your ‘screw them’ choice reflects something you perhaps need to be doing more of.]
[It’s easier to burn down a building than build one up.]
[‘Destroying’ someone will not convince them.]
The person who helped me shift never made me feel small. Minds change when they are made to feel large. When they are respected and gently challenged. When they are helped to stretch and make more room for another point of view.
The Technium: Better Than Free
[When copying makes things free and infinite, 8 ‘generative’ values that people might pay for include: immediacy; personalization; interpretation, support, or guidance; authentic versions; easy access on multiple devices, and backup; physical representations or in-person events; appreciation through patronage; discoverability and distribution.]
[Nudging people towards your conclusion while making them think they arrived there themselves will keep them resistant to questioning their basis for belief.]
[Conspiracism is more invested in the issues of specific leaders (bad satan worshippers) than the structure of power itself.]
[The face of Jesus and Mary may be commonly found on toast and fruit in Christian nations, wheras the name of Allah might be found on cantaloupe skins in Indonesia.]
[‘Is it possible that…’ has a very low barrier for proof.]
[One function of the ‘satanic ritual abuse’ conspiracy is to deny that sexual violence is banal and that culture empowers men to do it.]
[A movie lets you spend time together without having to make lots of small talk; sports migut even let you root for the same team.]
a kenyan woman got out of her rickshaw as I walked past, looked at me and spoke in english, “hi jesus!”
Who do you trust (when you don’t trust the news)?
[If manufacturers of cars bear some responsibility for your private vehicle’s safety issues, as airplane manufacturers would if flights put people in danger, perhaps so should social media companies for presenting alternative realities that lead to real world catastrophes.]