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2026

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Ways To Make Money

"My father, who died in 1981, was an inexhaustible font of wisdom and wit. I don’t know when he told me this particular three-part rule, but I’ve never forgotten it. I tweeted it three years ago, but people keep asking for it in one place, so here it is. There are three ways to make a living:

  1. Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich.
  2. Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living.
  3. Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.

The rest is commentary.

-- Jason Zweig

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Not Worth the Energy

I recently came across this post and I'll quote it here:

I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the
right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re
getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the
amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're
driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and
then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to
roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that
message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past
me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through
the first time machine

It's been capturing too much of my attention. I keep thinking about it. About how much effort I can sometimes put into being annoyed or mad or angry at something that is really just not worth the effort. I wonder if we can name this little path we can ofttimes take in our minds so we may quicker realize the futility of it and let it go.

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Trevor Noah

Who will you be when history calls?

-- Trevor Noah

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A Reminder

We are a caught in a perilous time and I wonder if we would listen to a reminder from one of our great Presidents, that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

-- Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863

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to sit by the sea

to sit by the sea
and focus on the distance
just breathe
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Fred Rogers

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

-- Fred Rogers