Apple vs Amazon

 

Amazon wants to make life cheaper, with Amazon I check what other people say about a product and zero mistakes, in Amazon when I am looking for something  I look for Amazon Choice and it's normally the best (Cheaper ) choice. 


Apple has a different approach, it's beautiful and easier to use but very very expensive. I see the Apple model more in danger from competition. 





If I voted in the USA I would vote for......

 “When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.”

― Henry Hazlitt


I would probably vote for Donald J Trump because 

0.I don't want to be poor
1. The speech/communication is pathetic but action is always ok
2. I don't want more Government, ever
3. I don't believe in big taxes 
4. Europe is not good for people that want to work USA still is
5.It would be the best for my children
6.US President Donald Trump announced the United States recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, I agree.
7.His war with China I agree, Chinese have no respect for the human life, property, etc...
8.His fight on regulations check
9.His approach to COVID is the correct one, lockdowns don't work just extend the pandemic over time (Now we know....)
10.He did not start any war, or sent any troops anywhere
11.He doesn't care about G7 , G 20 and all the other bullshit.
12.He did good for the middle class that have been left behind with automation & Globalization
13.I have almost no friend in Portugal that would vote for D J Trump. I know I must be doing something right.



All in all I think he thinks well. Trump believes in Man believes that man can decide can have his own choices and I will always vote for that.

I don't know Joe Biden at all, looks like a career politician, with a decent speech but he looks a bit lost and he wants a revolution I don't like revolutions













Socialism always loses

 Left always do things that make sense and always lose, from victory to victory until the end. Sweden strategy does not make sense but works . Lockdowns make sense but don't work and have some side effects.


the end of course is a lot of people on the Gov/State shoulders





A Plumber Charged this guy USD 300

Why would you go to college/lawschool/mba/blahblahblah..


I guess because you don't want to be a plumber. However if you pick any work that the world doesn't need you have a problem. The world does not need an average lawyer, an average architect or an average MD.


all these jobs will be replaced by a computer. A good doctor will be always on demand because someone has to tell the computer what to look for.


Do something new, do something that has no license to practice. There are no rules yet .


If you don't want to do new things you can always be a plumber.............




Let your kids fail small

You need stress to be strong , If you never get tested one day you break at the first wind. In Portugal authorities want to prevent small fires and in 2017 in Pedrogão they got a huge fire that killed more than 50 people. 


If you take very small doses of  a bad thing you became a bit immune. 


If you don't let your kids fail small they became paralyzed with fear of failing



From Jay Shetty book, 

A few decades ago, scientists conducted an experiment in the Arizona desert where they built “Biosphere 2”—a huge steel-and-glass enclosure with air that had been purified, clean water, nutrient-rich soil, and lots of natural light. It was meant to provide ideal living conditions for the flora and fauna within. And while it was successful in some ways, in one it was an absolute failure. Over and over, when trees inside the Biosphere grew to a certain height, they would simply fall over. At first, the phenomenon confused scientists. Finally, they realized that the Biosphere lacked a key element necessary to the trees’ health: wind. In a natural environment, trees are buffeted by wind. They respond to that pressure and agitation by growing stronger bark and deeper roots to increase their stability.





Watching/Reading the news is useless


"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb


Watching/Reading the news is useless

Though it may feel like you’re getting something done, you’re not. The reality is, the news doesn’t really affect you. It’s good to keep up with the goings on of the world, but don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re being productive by doing so. You’re not doing anything. Go do your work.


I saw this in a blog without author but I tend to agree. I just think if  affects you a lot. You think you are working and news specially if it's opinion can get into your thought process.


Read History, study facts, hard data and forget the weekly theme. You can't make money on news because they are all incorporated in the prices and there are a lot of negative news that relly enter your mind.


Just turn down your tv and get some silence.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

 Almost always when I buy a new book just out of print I am disappointed. When I buy a book that is in print for 50 years and have 13 editions there is something there. Don't buy new. 


There is nothing new in the world.