Minimum Wage

The USA instituted a national minimum wage originally explicitly to protect white peoples jobs in the northern countries from the millions of unemployed black people in the South. The minimum wage continues to have the similar effects to this day.

Tweaks

Each little tweak you make to improve your life or business only makes a small difference at first. As the years go by, the little tweaks start to pile up into substantial change. Great achievements are rarely created instantly even if they appear that way.

Google was not built into a multi-billion dollar titan instantly. Larry Page had spent his childhood going to conferences and playing with computers and tech magazines with his dad who had a PhD in computer science.… read more “Tweaks”

Nicaragua

Nicaragua had a serious earthquake in the 60s. US officials, in an effort to help, sent an enormous quantity of wheat to feed the people. Sounds good, right? Unfortunately, earthquakes don’t damage wheat fields. Over the next two years, the farmers of Nicaragua saw their agriculture businesses destroyed.

Be careful when a politician says “let’s pass a regulation to fix…”.

Life

Life is funny.

When you are an adolescent with hormones raging, all you can think about is finding a mate.

No one is interested much at that point as you don’t have much to offer.

So you buckle down and work hard and build yourself into a better person.

And you work and you work and you work.… read more “Life”