Fifty years ago...................

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.....Wake Up Everybody

    

Checking in with.............................

 

.............................James Clear:

Writing is the superpower of humankind. It is our truest form of magic.

Writing allows you to conjure up something of value where nothing previously existed. It costs little for you to write down the lessons of your life and yet those few minutes spent writing can be life-altering for the right reader. As I once saw it put: "there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words."

. . . The world is richer because we write and nobody is made poorer in the process.

trade-offs............................

 

Politics and economics are not just different.  They are antagonistic.

     The basic premise of economics is scarcity.  There is never enough to satisfy everybody.  That means there is no free lunch, no "solutions" but only trade-offs.

     Politics is full of "solutions."  There are free lunches for every voting bloc.  The game in politics is to do a little good, right under your nose, and ignore the harm created elsewhere.

-Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?: and other essays

play.......................

 

. . . if you can play with the horizon of the future, you are indeed doing well.

-Jordan B. Peterson

Tyler Cowen.....................

 

.........visits with Jonathan GPT Swift:

COWEN: If I try to boil your different works — from Gulliver’s Travels to Modest Proposal to the political and coinage writings — down to a common theme, I would say it is this: “Moral and intellectual progress is extremely difficult and is not to be taken for granted.” What would you say to that?

SWIFT: My dear reader, your assessment is perceptive, capturing a common thread that weaves through my diverse body of work. Indeed, I endeavored to convey that moral and intellectual progress is a most arduous endeavor, one that requires constant vigilance and reflection.

Fifty years ago.....................

Allen Toussaint......................Southern Nights

 

Thanks, but I will stick with real estate......

 

Ben Carlson updates his market performance chart:

A demand..................................

 

.........................................worth making.

Chris highlights the problem with this quote attributed to C. S. Lewis:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

listen.................................

 Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.

-Carl Sandburg