Gary Carmell
This week’s blog post continues with the second half of the summary of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovich. Every creative person is constantly faced with obstacles that get in the way of their productivity. And these can be brutal.
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Gary Carmell
A blog for the curious skeptic –
There’s nothing new under the sun
(or at least very little)
I’m a big fan of newspaperarchive.com. I have a rather anti-social hobby of often going back and reading old newspaper articles. Occasionally I come across some worth sharing. The following is one written on March 18,
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Gary Carmell
In 1995, I had been working at CWS for nearly eight years and had been married for six. One day, while I was in the office, I was interrupted from a meeting and told that my wife needed to talk to me.
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Gary Carmell
A little while back there was a tennis tournament in the Palm Springs area where we have a second home. A number of people were playing in the tournament who we knew and we had some of them over during one of the evenings.
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Gary Carmell
With this week’s blog, I will inevitably get drawn into the morass of politics by reposting this tweet from X.
Ignoring the typo in which “is” should have been “his” the post made me wonder about the paradoxical intersection between intelligence and ignorance.
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Gary Carmell
I’m on a bit of a slippery slope here. I take pride in producing a weekly blog almost without fail for the past 12 years. There are times when I am scratching my head for ideas or not feeling super inspired to write.
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Gary Carmell
I can’t believe I’m saying this but I kind of miss the days when interest rate concerns were at the forefront of investor concerns, including mine.
Now it’s been replaced by trade and tariff fears.
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Gary Carmell
Last week I was in Abu Dhabi for a one-day conference, and then Heather and I went to Oman for a few days. There were approximately 150 people at the conference, with a strong representation from the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth and pension funds.
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Gary Carmell
The bond market detests Donald Trump’s approach to tariffs.
Equally importantly, it appears that much of the American public does as well. This chart should scare Donald Trump as independent voters are now very concerned about inflation spiking in the near future.
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Gary Carmell
I have written a lot over the years about how global events and markets often follow the path of how one of Hemingway’s characters said he went bankrupt.
“How did you go bankrupt?”
Two ways.
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