With Bob Dylan having been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature over the weekend I thought I would honor him by being very self-indulgent and creating my own lyrics to Blowin’ in the Wind. I have often found that taking the time to figure out the most important questions to ask can be more mind expanding and powerful than just focused on getting answers.
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I was struck by the powerful insights set forth in an article I read recently on Bloomberg. The premise is that Donald Trump is the first post-literate President. Prior to the written word, and I would also add subsequently the printing press,
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
-Alan Watts
David Byrne famously sang “Watch out, you might get what you’re after” in Burning Down the House.
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In the famous opening and ending scenes of Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood’s character asks the cornered criminal if he feels lucky. Does he think Harry Callahan’s 44 Magnum is out of bullets or does he think there is one left? Harry is going to pull the trigger regardless.
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
–Aristotle
The fear of missing out can be a powerful motivator. Of course, taking action based on this fear can lead to both positive and negative consequences.
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Here is part two of my comparison of some of Goethe’s maxims and the wisdom of Charlie Munger. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749 – 1832) was a German writer and statesman while Charlie Munger, born 1924, is best known for his financial wisdom and partnership with Warren Buffett.
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Gary Carmell
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Sir Isaac Newton famously said in 1676,
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Scientific advancement and all forms of knowledge and innovation is cumulative and does not happen in a vacuum.
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How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a
Scotsman dropped in the middle of a
Forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence
Impoverished in squalor
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
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I jokingly said to my wife that the following graph is the reason she can purchase a car she has had her eye on.
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The discovery of the quantum is one of the great breakthroughs in science. It helped transition our understanding of how natural phenomena work from Newtonian mechanics to quantum physics. In this whacky world of infinitesimally small particles, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle was formulated which postulated that a scientist cannot simultaneously know the position and momentum of a particle because trying to measure either one will affect the results of the other.
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