Three Things - September 20, 2022 [Note: I typically don't include notes in these emails but, alas, it's been a year and a half since the last one and I want to provide a reintroduction! Concept: originally once weekly, now maybe once every 2-3 weeks, I share...
Three Things - February 2, 2021 First Thing: Unified Control Over the past several months I've listened to a number of people fret and/or complain about the perils of a single party (in this case, the Democrats) controlling the presidency, the House, and the Senate. "They're going...
Three Things - January 27, 2021 First Thing: Government R&D There is a strong case for public (aka government) spending on research and development even among conservative economists. As an economic conservative I approach government spending in private industry with a degree of skepticism. Not only can it...
Three Things - January 20, 2021 First thing: Cold showers are really good for you, and my recent reading of Seneca the Younger has proven that cold showers aren't just a modern fad. Although he mentions it many times elsewhere, here are two passages from his 'Letters from a Stoic': "Remembering my...
Three Things - January 11, 2021 First thing: The country Liberia was formed when a group of Americans made an attempt to 'repatriate' African-American slaves to Africa. As I've been reading Alexis de Tocqueville's important book Democracy in America I've been appalled by his account of America's treatment of Native Americans and...
Three Things - Dec. 15, 2020 First thing: I just recently finished reading a wonderful little book from 1903 entitled Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son. It is the wittiest, smartest, most entertaining thing I've read in a while--I regularly found myself full-on laughing while reading...
First thing: This past week I received a $100 charity 'gift card' from Ray Dalio (if you haven't read Dalio, his book, Principles, was life-changing for me.) I was able to personally select who would receive Ray's $100 donation from several dozen non-profits in my local area--pretty cool idea, right? He...
First thing: The following quote from Book I of Cicero's The Republic has struck a cord with me this week: "One cannot embark on a thing of such importance when one's program of work is full and one's mind is already occupied. Two things are needed: freedom from work and...
