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When I was 17 a guy I was talking to at a gas station asked me why my car was so dusty, and I said it was such a POS it wasn’t worth washing. He said to me “if it’s worth having, it’s worth taking care of” and it deeply shamed me and stuck with me to this day.

My friend’s 10 year old daughter killed herself after being relentlessly bullied. She was a classmate of my niece in Roanoke. It is heartbreaking and unbelievable. 10 years old. The Bushman family wants to get this message out to help others. Cyber bullying is now 24/7.

Talked to a shark tank contestant this week that received a deal from a shark. She said she never actually got a deal. She is in a Facebook group with hundreds of other “winners”, and only a small number ever actually did. It’s (almost) all just scripted entertainment.

In 35 years we flipped the US map from manufacturing being the largest employer in most states to healthcare being the largest employer. Absolute shit trade. We need to flip the map back.

We harvested 640lbs of honey this year. People always ask if we are selling it and I say no, we give it away to friends and family. Yesterday at Thanksgiving, each family left with a case of honey. My youngest brother said his son hasn’t been sick since he started our honey.

My brother just bought a Hyundai Santa Fe. He showed it to me last night. SHOCKINGLY good build quality. Luxury interior. Amazing electronics and screens. Great styling. Crazy Warranty. $38k I am probably late to this realization, but South Korea has reached parity w/ the best.

Fathers to a son: please read this. We dropped my oldest off at college this week. He is 18. Totally ready to leave the house. Desperate for independence. This is the way it should be. But it has torn me up. Statistically we have spent 90% of all the time we ever will together. I am sad because I know I made a lot of mistakes during this time. Mainly, I was too hard on him because he was the oldest, and he was a boy. I was the oldest, and a son in my family. I repeated some mistakes that were made with me. Even though I was convinced I would do a better job. I spanked him. I used unkind and hurtful words when I thought he fell short. Things that I have learned cause more harm than good. Things I wish I could take back. Basically I was just too damn hard on him. I have learned and (I hope) improved as a father. Which benefits his little sister and brother. I wrote him a long letter before he left. I told him how proud I am of him, tried to give him some words of wisdom, but also apologized for not always being a great dad. I told him I wanted to be the greatest dad in the world, but I didn’t always know how. I explained how I was brought up, and my father was brought up, and that I had brought some stuff along as a dad that I hope he is smart enough to leave behind when he is a dad. I know my grandfather had it ROUGH. My dad had it a bit less ROUGH. I had it by comparison better, and my son did too. However I could have and should have done a better job in my link of this chain of fatherhood. I am confident my son will do better when it is his turn. To the dads out there, especially with your oldest son…try not to be so hard on him. He doesn’t need to feel the weight of all of your expectations of a family lineage, he doesn’t need to be made into a clone of you, he doesn’t have to be made ready to be your “successor”. Watch how you discipline him…think very carefully about what you are trying to do and what the expected results will be. He just needs to be a good man and to be happy. And you need to keep a good relationship with him.

Every March 3 for the past ten years. Same green jackets. He got me this year. Age 13 and he got me.

If your kids want a computer, tell them you will buy the parts and teach them how to put it together. (October 2022)

This is the kind of recognition that keeps me grinding, day in and day out.

I once owned a home in Virginia Beach. Its elevation was 8ft above sea level. It was across the street from the ocean. The only insurance I could get was from Lloyds of London. It was very expensive. I was glad to have the option. Why was it expensive? Because the house was always one big storm away from being destroyed. Homes across the street HAD been destroyed and were then never rebuilt. Insurance is a market. Its pricing and availability communicates so much information about the risk for that location. Inevitably people don’t want to listen to the signals from the market. They say “this insurance is too damn expensive! Government should do something!” So you get intervention in the market from Government, which destroys the linkage between risk and price. Which eventually…forces every insurer out of the market. Then we have no options at any price. Then the taxpayer becomes the insurer. It is a sick spiral. Government should never, ever get involved in the insurance market.

With gold kissing $3000/oz, now is a good time to remind ourselves that when we price the S&P500 in gold rather than dollars, the index is flat since 2006. That 382% return in dollars since 2006 ain’t what you think it is.

Rather than calling them “rare earth minerals” can we just call it “spice”? And rather than saying we need to diversify our spice supply chains, can we just insist that “the spice must flow”?

I don’t think most Americans realize just how hard it is to fire an employee in Europe. A highly legalistic process that takes months, and is very expensive. IMHO this is the number 1 reason Europe no longer produces new companies. Like most well-intentioned regulations, worker protections built up slowly on top of each other. At any stage you can imagine one in isolation being very popular. And you can’t peel them away ever. If you were to propose it, you will trigger massive protest and be portrayed as a greedy anti-human capitalist. So Europe must now watch as less-encumbered countries like the USA leave it far behind economically. And I am sure plenty of comments to this will be “and that’s fine, life in Europe is better, our society is more sympathetic, we prefer it this way, etc” But there will come a point where Europe is so far behind the rest of the world, it will be forced to make some very painful decisions. And at that point life will not be better. This is the classic law of unintended consequences. To increase jobs, wages, and opportunities in the EU, they must make it easier to fire employees - for any reason.

There is a reason they only talk about month over month or year over year inflation. Talking about multi-year inflation rates gets really uncomfortable…

My friend’s 10 year old daughter killed herself after being relentlessly bullied. She was a classmate of my niece in Roanoke. It is heartbreaking and unbelievable. 10 years old. The Bushman family wants to get this message out to help others. Cyber bullying is now 24/7.

The native population of Japan is falling at rate of 100 ppl / hour. Down 595k from previous year Prime Minister says Japan at “the brink of being unable to maintain social functions” Gov Incentives to have babies ineffective, this is cultural The ONLY hope is immigration

In 35 years we flipped the US map from manufacturing being the largest employer in most states to healthcare being the largest employer. Absolute shit trade. We need to flip the map back.

The ultimate summer drink: Full fat yogurt, carbonated water, salt, mint, minced cucumber. TRUST ME

My brother just bought a Hyundai Santa Fe. He showed it to me last night. SHOCKINGLY good build quality. Luxury interior. Amazing electronics and screens. Great styling. Crazy Warranty. $38k I am probably late to this realization, but South Korea has reached parity w/ the best.

Fathers to a son: please read this. We dropped my oldest off at college this week. He is 18. Totally ready to leave the house. Desperate for independence. This is the way it should be. But it has torn me up. Statistically we have spent 90% of all the time we ever will together. I am sad because I know I made a lot of mistakes during this time. Mainly, I was too hard on him because he was the oldest, and he was a boy. I was the oldest, and a son in my family. I repeated some mistakes that were made with me. Even though I was convinced I would do a better job. I spanked him. I used unkind and hurtful words when I thought he fell short. Things that I have learned cause more harm than good. Things I wish I could take back. Basically I was just too damn hard on him. I have learned and (I hope) improved as a father. Which benefits his little sister and brother. I wrote him a long letter before he left. I told him how proud I am of him, tried to give him some words of wisdom, but also apologized for not always being a great dad. I told him I wanted to be the greatest dad in the world, but I didn’t always know how. I explained how I was brought up, and my father was brought up, and that I had brought some stuff along as a dad that I hope he is smart enough to leave behind when he is a dad. I know my grandfather had it ROUGH. My dad had it a bit less ROUGH. I had it by comparison better, and my son did too. However I could have and should have done a better job in my link of this chain of fatherhood. I am confident my son will do better when it is his turn. To the dads out there, especially with your oldest son…try not to be so hard on him. He doesn’t need to feel the weight of all of your expectations of a family lineage, he doesn’t need to be made into a clone of you, he doesn’t have to be made ready to be your “successor”. Watch how you discipline him…think very carefully about what you are trying to do and what the expected results will be. He just needs to be a good man and to be happy. And you need to keep a good relationship with him.

Talked to a shark tank contestant this week that received a deal from a shark. She said she never actually got a deal. She is in a Facebook group with hundreds of other “winners”, and only a small number ever actually did. It’s (almost) all just scripted entertainment.

FTC says that by banning non-competes, it will “generate” over 8,500 new businesses each year. They are naturally silent on the number of businesses that will close due to theft of trade secrets.

We harvested 640lbs of honey this year. People always ask if we are selling it and I say no, we give it away to friends and family. Yesterday at Thanksgiving, each family left with a case of honey. My youngest brother said his son hasn’t been sick since he started our honey.

I love the taste of beer. I wish I didn’t love it so much. Is there any better beverage?

Not one bike locked up in Copenhagen. High trust society. Where did things go wrong for us?

If your kids want a computer, tell them you will buy the parts and teach them how to put it together. (October 2022)

The LED light bulbs I put all over the house were advertised to last 25 years. At the ten year mark now and many are developing a flickering, which is even more annoying than burning out.

I don’t think most Americans realize just how hard it is to fire an employee in Europe. A highly legalistic process that takes months, and is very expensive. IMHO this is the number 1 reason Europe no longer produces new companies. Like most well-intentioned regulations, worker protections built up slowly on top of each other. At any stage you can imagine one in isolation being very popular. And you can’t peel them away ever. If you were to propose it, you will trigger massive protest and be portrayed as a greedy anti-human capitalist. So Europe must now watch as less-encumbered countries like the USA leave it far behind economically. And I am sure plenty of comments to this will be “and that’s fine, life in Europe is better, our society is more sympathetic, we prefer it this way, etc” But there will come a point where Europe is so far behind the rest of the world, it will be forced to make some very painful decisions. And at that point life will not be better. This is the classic law of unintended consequences. To increase jobs, wages, and opportunities in the EU, they must make it easier to fire employees - for any reason.

Am I the only male on X not taking creatine???