Old School Cool
British paratroopers sit across from themselves in the same aircraft that dropped them during the D-Day invasion.
How To Grow The Fuck Up
When I was like four years old, despite my mother warning me not to, I put my finger on a hot stove. The stove was red and bright and shiny and I knew yummy food came from it, so the allure was irresistible. That day I learned an important lesson: really hot things suck. They…
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There Are Now More Indices Than Stocks
More here – Bloomberg
My Beautiful Delusion
In my readings I came across the following chart and it got me thinking about the nature of delusion – It is no secret that we lie to ourselves, we have a strangely filtered view of all of our qualities and flaws. My guess is that most of the time these delusions serve to protect…
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Two Interesting Charts
At last something we beat the Kiwi’s in. No idea of the implication but they look interesting.
The Myth of The Successful Dropout.
Interesting little chart from The Conversation. The data is US derived but it would seem broadly applicable to anywhere. This also tallies with the surplus of data that links everything from life expectancy, general health and life satisfaction to education. The simple rule seems to be, the more you get the better you do at…
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