When You Don’t Know Which Road to Take in Life

Sereno Sky writes in Lonely Traveller (2014,) If you don’t know which road to take in life: Do what’s loving. Take a path that is loving, with yourself and towards others. That’s the only path leading to light. If it’s loving it builds up, if not, it will only tear down.

Trans Athletes Have Unfair Advantage

Cheryl Radachowsky of New York Post talks about concerns that girls essentially would be even more disadvantaged within sport than they already are: My daughter is a rising high school track star who is now losing races to athletes born as males. But Connecticut’s athletic conference has allowed students born as males to compete as […]

Federico Garcia Lorca and the Spanish Form and Meter

American poet William Carlos Williams writes about Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca in Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams (1954): There has always seemed to be a doubt in the minds of Spaniards that their native meters were subtle enough, flexible enough to bear modern stresses. But Lorca, aided lry the light of twentieth century […]

Power of Art, Concealed

When United States Secretary of State Colin Powell went goes to the United Nations in February 2003 to make his case for war with Iraq’s Saddam Hussain, the U.N. threw a blue cover over Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece, ‘Guernica’. David Walsh of the World Socialist noted, UN officials claimed that the cover-up was simply a matter […]

The simple approach to success

Marketing Guru Jack Trout on pursuing the simple approach to success: Trying harder, believing in yourself, walking on fire, and saying, ‘yes I can’ are not steps up the ladder of success. The surprising truth is that success does not spring from anything inside yourself at all. Success is something given to you by others. […]

Lesson from Mozart On Living Simply

At the Daily Journal Meeting 2019, Charlie Munger on lessons from Mozart: Now there’s another Mozart story. Here’s the greatest musical talent, maybe, that ever lived. And what was his life like? Well, he was bitterly unhappy and he died young. That’s the life of Mozart. What the hell did Mozart do to screw it […]

Todd Combs Becomes GEICO CEO

In December 2019, Warren Buffett named Todd Combs, one of Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio managers, as the chief executive officer of the auto insurer GEICO. CNBC notes, Combs will continue managing $14 billion of investments at Berkshire, the Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate he joined in 2010. “That’s an awful lot of work for one person,” said Meyer […]

Buddha Nature v/s Thomas Hobbes’s View

American poet Allen Ginsberg writes in Spontaneous Intelligence, I think everybody has a natural inclination to compassion. It gets covered over by frustration, ignorance, bad experiences, bad karma, but underneath it, as they say, everybody has a Buddha-nature which is compassionate. This is exactly the opposite of the Hobbesian view, which is that underneath everybody […]

What Commissions are Investment Advisors Getting Paid?

In March 2013, Becky Quick interviewed Warren Buffett on CNBC and asked about investment fees. Buffett made some interesting comments on Berkshire’s portfolio managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. He spoke about individual investors in the exchange below, and his advice is applicable to institutional investors as well. Becky Quick: A lot of Main Street […]

The Only Moment to Be Alive

Thich Nhat Hanh writes in Peace Is Every Step (1990,) We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we […]