Here is another post with five Best of Web links I have found deemed worthy to share with you: the 50 laws of investing, a shocking story about an evil serial killer in France with the nickname Dr. Satan who was executed by guillotine, we go inside the fall of Kabul, an amazing human condition timeline and all the science triumphs and more!
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The Best of Web posts are much shorter in length with material that is a notch or two above what you see in the regular TBB posts.
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50 Laws of Investing
All of these are great which I highly endorse!
I’ll excerpt my favorite ten if you are too lazy to click:
Diversification affords the best protection against our inability to predict the future.
The most important attribute of all is emotional discipline.
The only certainty is uncertainty and you should expect the unexpected.
However ready you feel for your first bear market, it will still be very scary when it comes.
If you aren’t humble, the markets will eventually find a way to humble you.
The industry sells complexity, but simple solutions are almost always better for consumers.
More money is lost anticipating market crashes than in actual crashes themselves.
Investors have a bias towards action but the best course is usually to do nothing.
The most boring assets can make the best investments, the most exciting the worst.
Though it’s billed as “settling for average”, indexing is a way of ensuring above-average net returns.
The Traveler and His Baggage
In Nazi-occupied Paris, “Dr. Eugène” offered Jews an alternative to deportation, slavery, and death camps. But the escape network was not what it seemed.
Warning: This story contains VERY graphic language of the deeds by an insane blood thirsty serial killer. DO NOT READ if you get easily upset, you are warned!
I guarantee that once you start reading this…you won’t stop!
At some point in your life you may have read about executions in France. By guillotine. And you may have heard of a “Dr. Satan” who lost his head in this way after the war in 1946. What he did will certainly make your stomach turn. And, you know, for scum like that his ending may not be that disagreeable with you. Anyway, prepare to be shocked. No videos, sorry, I don’t do clickbait!
You can listen to the story via a podcast, just fyi.
Inside the Fall of Kabul
Another absolutely mind blowing inside story of what happened in Afghanistan. Apparently, private contractors made a lot of money. Along with corrupt Afghans. All along selling us bullshit. And so many of our youngsters dead and maimed. And now the Taliban in charge again…how sad! For what?
You can also listen to the article as well.
Timeline of the Human Condition
I may have shared this link with you before in an earlier post. My memory is not as sharp as it used to be, you know, aging and all that.
Amazing webpage going all the way back to 13,800,000,000 years ago…enjoy the progress!
Our history is a battle against the microbes: we lost terribly before science, public health, and vaccines allowed us to protect ourselves
Thank you science and thank you for the vaccines!
Our best strategy in the age-old fight against the germs is our collaborative, data-based effort to study the world around us and within us. Our best strategy is science. Amen!
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Good morning!
The piece on us v the microbes is terrific. Thanks for all these links.
I think the Dr. Satan one is one of those rare gems…too.
I should get back to Buzz posts next Monday. I think I have another Best of 2021 lists coming on Friday.
Barclay Hawaiian Airlines min spend done, another 80k miles to come.
I have no idea what card to go for next. I am bored. I am nearing 5 million miles in the bank and Omicron raging and…fearing for my Kauai trip in a few weeks with so many flight cancellations every day. Maybe I should go for the credit card that pays me the highest sales commission using my links LOL.
I don’t know if anyone bothers anymore but One Mile at a Time’s pace of credit card shilling is, imho, surpassing The Points Guy. I mean, it is unbelievable! How do his readers feel about getting pounded every hour or so is mind boggling. And I don’t know why bloggers I respect keep linking to OMAAT and VFTW when they keep their mouth shut and their readers in the dark about the Resy offer….oh…traffic. TBB does not care about traffic and it shows LOL.
Flights to Hawaii have been remarkably cheap. In contrast, hotels are unusually expensive. Has the car rental issue been resolved?
I should look to check if my flights are still intact…
Reminds me also to see why Autoslash has not found a lower price…maybe it stopped searching?
“The most boring assets can make the best investments, the most exciting the worst.”
I did pretty well in coal last year. I forget who said it but there’s money to be made when a company’s or industry’s prospects go from terrible to slightly less terrible.
Coal? Guess I won’t pitch my ESG ultra turbo ETF to you then! 🙂