Have you ever noticed that pessimistic and depressed people avoid babies? I’m sure there are exceptions to this statement, but on the whole, I think it’s accurate. Dark, gloomy minds shy away from babies. I think there’s something to learn from this. Here’s…

Nearly every creature upon this planet has one or more natural predators: creatures that prey upon them. Humans are a striking exception; even though we’re bereft of natural weapons – claws, ripping teeth and so on – we easily protect ourselves from even…

The list of words used to backup Bitcoin wallets contains a lot of pairs that can easily be confused. Around 800 pairs of words differ by only one character.

(Originally posted August 17, 2023 and still important.) I make a practice of not posting any link tied to Google, but this time I’ll make an exception. This is the voice of the working class… the productive people who‘ve been treated like serfs by the “rich…

There has been no more important teacher in human history than Jesus of Nazareth. Not only was Western civilization (the civilization that eliminated slavery, spawned science and unleashed production) based upon his teachings, but more than two billion people…

In any negotiation, the one with power is the one who can walk away. If you can’t walk, you have no power and you won’t get what you want. I bring this up because a couple of billion people have entered relationships in which they have no power at all, and…

Business success: The old ideal of "work hard, follow the rules and prosper" is dead. If you want to make real money, you have to have an advantage that...

America took its fatal blow in 1913, one hundred years ago; it just hasn't hit the ground yet. This is a slow process, but it's actually fast compared to...

The size of a punch card was standardized to be the size of US bank notes at the time. Since then the dollar has shrunk, literally and figuratively.

As I look back on my early work, I see too many cases of trying to accommodate hostile opponents… too much effort spent on making my arguments unassailable. And I see that it was wasted effort. It’s time to unchain ourselves from apologetics. It’s time to…

Why Some Juries Get It Wrong: I'm sure you've seen crazy jury verdicts and wondered how sane people could vote for them. This is probably why. If you put...

More thoughts about crypto wallet seed phrase words: unique prefixes, word frequency, vocabulary estimation and overlap

You may have heard that Silk Road – the truly free online market – was taken down today, by the FBI. In response, the price of Bitcoin crashed 24%.

Humanity stands about halfway between gorillas and gods. The big question is this: “Which will we incorporate into our lives?" God or gorilla things are...

I was recently involved in a day of meetings with small business owners in the American Midwest. It was both encouraging and sad at the same time.

The problem with most humans is not that they think too highly of themselves: it’s that they think too little of themselves. They exhibit what G.K. Chesterton called a “weird and horrible humility.” To put it bluntly, we’ve been trained to perpetually self…

Perhaps the most vehement intellectual foolishness of our time is the demand that no culture may be judged. According to this dogma, all cultures are equally valid and very certainly none can be judged as inferior to another. That’s not just hogwash, but…

Once in a while in human affairs, things go right. Today we’ve issued a special report. I’ve been keeping notes on this subject for some time, but I wasn’t sure I’d ever use them. Over the past several weeks, however, so many pieces have come together, and…

Those of us who pursue positive change are very often frustrated. We see the necessity of change all too clearly, and we can explain how it should come about, but it never seems to happen. It’s a discouraging situation. The truth, however, is that change…