We bring you yet another TBB Best of Web edition: A must read article about prediction psychology, learn more about the life of John Allen Chau, inspiring article about crowdsourcing justice and freeing an innocent man, a totally crazy Harvard professor story and how new work is evolving before our eyes!
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At every Best of Web post I pick the best reads that blew my mind in the previous week. It can be…anything! I like to be eclectic and despise salesy/clickbait/sameold content you read…everywhere else!
As always, click on the headline to be taken to the original source. Sometimes I insert my incendiary comments on article excerpts between [brackets].
The Psychology of Prediction
This is a must read article by Morgan Housel. One of the best personal finance writers and I think this may well be his masterpiece. Make some time to read it. You will not be disappointed or…I ‘ll give you your money back, believe me! 😉
Very hard to excerpt parts of it, everything is just brilliant.
You are welcome.
The Last Days of John Allen Chau
Well, the name of my blog starts with “Travel”. So, when I find worthy travel posts that appear worthy of making a Best of Web edition I make sure I include them. And do I have one for you!
You remember this name? I am sure you saw it in the news recently. Yes, it is that Bible lover who thought he could bring Jesus to the North Sentinel Island. Yeah, THAT island…where no outsider is welcome and they have been known to kill them with spears and stuff like that. I remember reading the news shaking my head thinking “WTF was he thinking?”. Well, when you are SO much into the Bible you are probably not thinking coherently. Anyway, as it was expected, he did not live that long…
But this article dives deep into the dude’s life. His family, the way he was raised, how he was into adventure and travel growing up. How his dad screwed up his life afterwards, his descend into this martyrdom suicidal making history mode etc. The writer also managed to decipher his last days and his thoughts from the diary John kept.
You will likely feel incredible sorrow towards this kid by the end of it.
Crowdsourcing Justice
How the “Truth and Justice” Podcast Army Helped Free Ed Ates
I love the work at Texas Monthly! Not many stories bring you to tears like this one did to me! Yeah, this is a warning.
This is the incredible story of how a dude got himself tangled into a murder investigation and amazingly found himself sent to prison for life shortly after he got married! How the justice system works to totally convict the wrong people. You know, maybe, just maybe, we have some issues with shooting and convicting people who are not white?
“Never give up”. You hear this all the time. Well, excuse me, after you read this you know NEVER EVER to give up okay? I wish all these people well and that asshole prosecutor to, you know, maybe say sorry?
If you cry, do not complain…because I warned you!
The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge
This story went viral, you may have already seen it. If not, you are about to read one of the craziest stories I have read in recent times.
It involves a Harvard professor, his threesomes with another lady and her transexual girlfriend, how they scammed him out of his house and when he came back with his own family found themselves locked out, many people with issues involved here, baby popping up and not really easily determined whose baby it was…only to have the “smart” professor convinced it was his. I mean, I could go on and on. Oh yeah, evictions and lawsuits and sexual harassment accusations galore too!
If I had a ChaseSapphirePreferred credit card app with my links for every WTF that came out of my mouth I would turn this blog profitable. LOL
The 101 people, ideas and things changing how we work today
The world of work is being struck by waves of change. Some are vast and visible – leaps in machine learning and artificial intelligence or the rise of ‘do anything from anywhere’ technologies. Other ideas are just beginning to emerge – like monitoring content to ensure proper gender balance, or rethinking office design to promote air quality. Behind it all are the people whose ideas and attitudes have the potential to shape the next chapter of our lives. Here are the 101 indispensable things that you need to know about our work-life future.
From a 100-year-lifespan, to biohacking, to co-living, to Flygskam, to microdosing, to reverse mentoring, etc.
Brace yourselves!
And I leave you with this…
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Good morning!
A virtual feast. Thanks.
The John Chau article was great, thanks!
Very interesting about John Chau. He didn’t even speak the language – no one really does apparently – so how did he think that he was going to get any ideas across to them in the first place? He seems to have had nothing but good intentions and love in his heart, but his mind was delusional about his abilities and the magnitude of the Sentinelese people’s hostility. He would have been better off working with established church mission organizations in other parts of the world. A bit of a messaiah complex it seems. Still, he gave his life trying to share the love of Christ, however misguided his efforts. God bless him.
@DML: I am proud of these Best of Web posts. Instead of moronic sensational clickbaity plastic pumping type stuff…I prefer this eclectic link. I am glad you enjoy them…I have a hard time deciding which five to make the cut!
@ Nick @PFD: Indeed!
@ Ryan: Messaiah complex indeed. Must admit it was enlightening to learn more about his background and I really fell sorry for the guy after reading it. That was NOT the case before reading it.
Hi TBB,
Tried applying for two more cards using your links. Both denials. I have never been approved using your links. #Conspiracy.
Update: Has my wife go through your links for a Sapphire Preferred and that got approved! Hope it adds to your millions that you make on the blog.
Thanks and special thanks to your wife! 🙂
Andy is working on a masterpiece for August…so the millions will partly go to him lol.
You keep trying, never give up 🙂
The successful blogs you guys:
Credit Cards That Come With the Best Elite Status – View From The Wing
Is That a Flight Attendant in the Overhead Bin? Why, Yes – And There’s Video – The Points Guy
I am going to shake my head as I eat a salad…
Why does Miles to Memories have to post so many times a day, WTF!!!
I have stopped reading MTM a while ago……I feel he uses CLICKBAIT HEADLINES too often along with content that is disappointing, stale or irrelevant (highly targeted).
ps………….note to Buzz Client, Ramsey is back nibbling on tech growth stocks that went on sale about noon (to coincide with .25 rate cute announcement) ………… if he owns SHOP AMD AMZN CRM or MSFT, THE RAMSEY AFFECT INDICATOR screams sell, sell, sell.
“You know, maybe, just maybe, we have some issues with shooting and convicting people who are not white?” WTF are you babbling about is this sentence. Care to explain yourself?
It is my constitutional right to babble stuff in my head 🙂
The constitution says nothing about voices in your head.
So, how long before I will get PAID to borrow money AND live in a house? I remember the good old days (pre MA) when I did Applyorama at 0% interest. I took that money and put it in a HIGH interest rate savings account for up to 18 months. Soon thinking outside the box will be a waste of your time.
Makes me believe that Education and Healthcare can be had for Freeeeeee.
If the Asian dude gets elected…I quit! He will give me a lot more money every month that involves me doing nothing instead of busting my butt here for a lot less!
🙂
I cant wait to have you vote for Bernie and he pushes thru that new tax on every sale of a stock. That’ll teach you for voting lefty.
As I rarely sell…that would be fine.
I don’t think he is going to be the last one standing. I sure hope not.
@MileageUpdate………lets drop George off in Baltimore about 2 AM on a Saturday night.
After reading the John Chau article, I really don’t feel much more sorry for him than I did before, which is to say, not at all. Leave these people alone. I hope the same thing happens to any imitators he will likely inspire I’m glad the Indian govt arrested those who helped him and I hope their fines discourage others. If anything, his hiding out in the “safe house” for days just shows that he knew what he was doing was wrong on some level. It is kind of interesting to learn about this whole missionary adventurer culture that I didn’t really know existed.
Oh, he definitely knew what he was doing!
I wonder about his family, what his siblings were thinking…how his parents may felt they enabled his path…and his naivete.
Just sad all around
So pathetic:
Credit Cards Chance The Rapper Should Use For His Postmates Obsession – The Points Guy
Dog Days for Delta After Refusing to Transport Epileptic Toddler’s Support Dog – Renes Points
Starting to think the new guy is…actually Rene 🙂
Starting to think the new guy is….actually Shatner
only to be followed by the self proclaimed travel thought leader:
Delta’s Inflight Napkins are Diminishing Passengers’ Self-Esteem – View From The Wing
Can’t wait to see the Doc link to it lol
I was always bothered by the reportage & chatter about Chau. It is always wrong to kill an unarmed man for being a stranger. You’d think Twitter could at least agree on that. It was never disclosed in anything I saw before how much trouble he went to in order to make sure he was properly vaccinated & wasn’t putting them at risk. I am glad the author of the article was a person who had actually considered & attempted the adventure, I think we got a lot more insight into the workings of Chau’s mind than we did from all the judgy articles about how “missionaries are bad, mm-kay.” Every time a travel experience goes bad, seems like there’s a lot of ugly crowing from people trying to pressure us to live small.