by Brandon Adams | Jun 28, 2017 | Book Excerpts
When it comes to investments of your time and money, it’s a very bad time, historically, to do things halfway. What technology has done is create one global playing field, where the expected standard for everything is excellence. In a previous generation, the...
by G* | Jun 28, 2017 | Guest Blogs, Reviews
NOTE: NYC’s sushi scene has completely transformed in the last few years, making it truly world class and up there with some of the more obvious greatest sushi cities. Insane levels of creativity, quality, prices, variety, all of it. I wrote this for myself and for...
by Brandon Adams | Jun 27, 2017 | Book Excerpts
When students ask me which majors to pursue, my advice is usually: Err on the side of doing the hard things early. There is a steep decline in attention span for difficult study that comes with age, as well as some decrease in raw mental processing power, so it is...
by Brandon Adams | Jun 26, 2017 | Book Excerpts
Most people are not, broadly speaking, careful enough in matters of personal safety. I have completely unreasonable and unbalanced behavior in many contexts, but as a pedestrian I’ll almost always take a long time before crossing a street. In general, if...
by Brandon Adams | Jun 23, 2017 | Reviews
Rating: 8.5/10 Everyone should buy this book solely to read Chapter 10, “Debasing the Coinage”, p190-212. This chapter alone is easily worth full retail, and this is not surprising, as this is the area we would expect Stephen King to know best. King...
by Brandon Adams | Jun 22, 2017 | Book Excerpts
Growth in the current period is a function of growth in the previous period. Audience growth is exponential, and many of the world’s most powerful businesses experienced rapid exponential audience growth in their infancy. Technology allows new ideas to spread faster...
by Brandon Adams | Jun 22, 2017 | Reviews
Rating: 9/10 This is the first of a series of book reviews I hope to host on this blog. I’ll strive to be fierce and unbiased in general, though in this case I’ll disclaim that I once had a very Complacent Class-like three Michelin star meal with...
by Brandon Adams | Jun 21, 2017 | Economics
Let me start by saying that I’m not, at present, a long-term optimist on the alternative currency space. I’ll spell out my case for pessimism as clearly as I can here. My background is strong in economics and modest in the alternative currency space. I taught...
by Brandon Adams | Jun 21, 2017 | Book Excerpts
At a poker table once, someone I respect said, “Everyone I know who’s ever bet on props has gone broke at some point.” I puzzled over this, because a prop bet, in poker terminology, is a bet on something where the odds are fair, such that there is no...
by Brandon Adams | Jun 20, 2017 | Book Excerpts
Degenerates are degenerates because they are in some ways excitable. They enjoy stimulation and expansion into new domains. The majority of artists in all places and at all times in history have been of degenerate temperament. Degenerates, who are more prone to...
