1. The Ultimate Hedging Strategy Buy a piece of furtile land with access to fresh water. Learn to farm. Stock up on ammunition. Lots. Invest in making your neighbours like you enough to not want you dead. Bury pieces of gold in your backyard (small pieces, easy to...
I can’t make up my mind what the prognosis is for China. There are 2 diametrically opposing hypotheses, both seem possible and reasonable. One hypothesis says China will prosper and become the biggest, richest, most powerful and most advanced economy in the...
It turns out that the CIA has been making friends in Afghanistan by giving Viagra to Afghan chieftains. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/25/AR2008122500931.html?hpid=topnews Q: How do you tell which Afghan chieftains are American allies? A:...
There are 2 ways to inflate one’s own sense of self-importance. One is to think that people love me. The other is to think that people hate me. In reality, I discovered, people just ignore me.
