2 Thoughts for the last day of the year

1.Much of higher education consists of learning to make yourself look good. It's an essential skill, but you might as well learn something else while you're there too.

 Chris Guillebeau

 2.Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they get out.

 Mark Twain


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College a waste of time and money for kids, FT

 Here is what's wrong with college.
First, and foremost, it's too expensive. To send a kid to college you need from $200,000 to $400,000. That's insane. There's no way the incremental advantage they get from having a diploma will ever pay back that amount. Perhaps for the first time the opportunity cost (a phrase I remember from Economics 101) of college does not equal the extra profits generated by the degree.
Second, I don't believe in a balanced education. Most colleges require students to take a smattering of art, maths, sciences and so forth. Taking 10 courses a year on wildly different topics, with enormous homework responsibilities, not to mention droning, boring professors for at least eight of the 10, is the surest formula for creating complete non-interest and inability to remember anything in any of the topics covered. What a waste of $400,000.
And third, there are far better uses of time. One reader asked what her kid should be doing instead of college. Here are some of my responses:
1. Working - not just a labour or service job, but there are internet-content jobs out there. I have high school and college kids working for me who are making over $50,000 a year from writing gigs on the internet. Scour Craigslist for opportunities, your favourite blogs, or websites related to your favourite interests. Companies are dying for good content. Create your own blog, get yourself noticed, build relationships with other content companies and communities.
2. Take half the fee for one semester, give it to your kid, and tell him or her to start a business. Not every youngster has entrepreneurial sensibilities, but it's always worth trying once. The cost for starting a business is next to zero, so it's a viable alternative. What business should they start? For one thing, now that Facebook and MySpace have open development platforms, try out a few applications for these platforms; for a few hundred dollars you can outsource development of these applications to India, and get your friends to start trying them. Make sure they are viral (that is, a message should appear "click here to get all your friends to try XYZ") and see which ones are a success. I mention Facebook and MySpace because every kid is familiar with these sites and comfortable with the subtleties, and it's this comfort that can create the best businesses.
3. Spend a year trying to become good at one thing. Whatever your child's greatest interest is, whether cooking, chess, writing, maths, there are so many resources on the internet available for learning that college is almost the last place a kid should go to pursue a passion. Intense immersion in a favourite topic is the surest way to become an expert in that field.
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 http://thoughtmeme.blogspot.pt/2014/03/does-education-matter.html
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I took the day off yesterday
























Yesterday with freezing temperatures in Portugal i rode with a bunch of my friends to Montejunto. It was a very nice  to be able to ride in a week day. Almost 5 hours on the bike.

 Life is good. There are a lot of wonderful things to do without spending money! ahhh, we stop briefly for a coffee in Torres vedras.
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one victim of automation is marriage

This erosion of traditional marriage and family structure has played out most dramatically among low-income groups, both black and white. According to the sociologist William Julius Wilson, inner-city black men struggled badly in the 1970s, as manufacturing plants shut down or moved to distant suburbs. These men naturally resented their downward mobility, and had trouble making the switch to service jobs requiring a very different style of self-presentation. The joblessness and economic insecurity that resulted created a host of problems, and made many men altogether unmarriable. Today, as manufacturing jobs disappear nationwide (American manufacturing shed about a third of its jobs during the first decade of this century), the same phenomenon may be under way, but on a much larger scale....................

But while the rise of women has been good for everyone, the decline of males has obviously been bad news for men—and bad news for marriage. For all the changes the institution has undergone, American women as a whole have never been confronted with such a radically shrinking pool of what are traditionally considered to be “marriageable” men—those who are better educated and earn more than they do. So women are now contending with what we might call the new scarcity. Even as women have seen their range of options broaden in recent years—for instance, expanding the kind of men it’s culturally acceptable to be with, and making it okay not to marry at all—the new scarcity disrupts what economists call the “marriage market” in a way that in fact narrows the available choices, making a good man harder to find than ever. At the rate things are going, the next generation’s pool of good men will be significantly smaller. What does this portend for the future of the American family?

From The Atlantic, Kate Bolick, All the single Ladies


If the marriage only works if man makes more money than the woman marriage is in deep trouble because many typical male professions are shrinking fast. Automation is killing all the repetitive jobs.

In the past i think man didn't got distressed to pay all the households expenses because women gave them children and cared for them  Today if the man doesn't make any money why do women would support them? they can't produce children?

Single woman is the way forward because the the marriage pool of acceptable man is shrinking fast.
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Cold showers really work!

Seven million years of human evolution were dominated by two challenges: food scarcity and cold. “In the last 0.9 inches of our evolutionary mile,” they write, pointing to the fundamental lifestyle changes brought about by refrigeration and modern transportation, “we solved them both.” Other species don’t exhibit nearly as much obesity and chronic disease as we warm, overfed humans and our pets do. “Maybe our problem,” they continue, “is that winter never comes.”......

 Another 2014 study found that, even after controlling for diet, lifestyle, and other factors, people who live in warmer parts of Spain are more likely to be obese than people who live in the cooler parts.

 From The Benefits of Being Cold, The Atlantic, 2014
An Easy way to get in shape fast is to end every shower with cold water. It's difficult but not impossible. Start from the feet up, 1 minute is enough. You get in shape really fast. 

My oldest son, who is 16, sleeps with the bedroom window open even in the winter! Despite being a good eater he is really skinny. I guess exposure to cold makes a big impact.
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Big smart Gurus/Stars are loosers in the long run

Data lovers are winning everywhere . But they don't look like Stars. A star is someone who does a prediction and time to time they nail it big time. A star is someone who predicted 10 market crashes and on the 10 th time they are correct. A star is Nouriel Roubinni who predicted the 2007 sub prime crisis and since then has been wrong ever since.

A data lover is not a star. He doesn't do Big fat predictions. He does a lot of small bets and ultimately wins. A data lover is the casino. A Guru is the visitor/gambler who time to time hits the jackpot.

If you want a winner , don't expect big views expect a system.
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Is this the future!
























Is this the future? No this is already the present. You buy on internet, get the best price and the best advice. Since i start reading comments from previous buys i don't get bad advice from the Shop staff. Typically the shop staff only want to push the product of the week on you.

Retail shopping is going down and for good reason. Comfort, price and advice.
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Big get Bigger

In the first quarter, the latest data, companies with more than 500 employees accounted for 46.3% of private sector jobs, up from 44.2% a decade earlier, while those with fewer than 50 employees fell to 28.4% from 30.2%. At the same time, new business formations have been falling steadily since the 1990s, and intensifying since the Great Recession. Where are all the entrepreneurs?

From The Great Insight, A Gary Shillig
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