What is “fair share“? Federal income taxes were established 137 years after the nation was formed, by the 16th Amendment in 1913. “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census…

Iran’s 3.67% enrichment, to over 60% “unnecessary” enrichment, took eight years. The US took about 2.5 years to enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels (≥90% U-235) as part of the Manhattan Project, which began in earnest in mid-1942. In 2016, under the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),…

Jack Nicholson would say, “you can’t handle the truth.“ Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts would say, “try me.“ And… some have said, “the research in the Wuhan laboratory was justified.” Was it? This has that ring to it. But, who knows. As a scientist, I would contend it’s better to…

Whether you are an investor, a founder, a CTO, an inventor, or simply a keen observer of human nature… There is lots of wisdom here, from one of the best. __________ Harry Tottman What Y Combinator Teaches in 10 Minutes 🧠 In this must-watch video, YC’s Michael Seibel breaks down the…

So what cargo do YOU think got delivered from China to Iran today? Perhaps a birthday present for the Ayatollah? Probably Russian nesting dolls, those colorful matryoshka dolls that Ayatollahs love. China would just be “splitting the difference” on the Ayatollah’s two birthdays of April 19 and July 16. See…

“Golf may not be, afterall, the best way to enjoy the exquisite sounds and aromas, and majestic vistas of life. Perhaps Golf is indeed a good picnic spoiled. Especially if it is a ‘carts on path’ day.”-mhp “Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball…

Having played in all four playgrounds and found limitations and pain points in each, let me say this: The Operating Systems are so very different!In academia, learning and discovery is an end in itself. In business and the private sector, profit and loss is the ultimate measurement. In government, reelection,…

In a world of peer pressure, cloning, posing and posturing, factory education, social media intimidation, and ultimately “mediocrity” (by definition)… most will never have the courage of the legendary Miles Davis: “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.“ -Miles Davis It’s a…

I am convinced, Robert Lufkin MD. I didn’t know these details. Very persuasive. I once fasted for 39+ days, no food whatsoever, only water. That type of fasting also had a remarkable effect on my internal life. I certainly don’t recommend a 40 day no-food fast for everyone, and it took…

AI is more like some “mediocre” humans than we thought! AI “essentially gives up, even when it has the capacity to keep trying.” And, “they can’t follow simple instructions. Even when Apple gave the AI the exact algorithm to solve the puzzle, it still failed at the same complexity point.” All…

What happens when AI observes us and responds realtime, as our personal Mahatma Gandhi and Maya Angelou, Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, Magnus Carlsen and Bobby Fischer, Tiger Woods and Steph Curry, Thomas Edison and great grandpa Alexander Graham Bell, Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs,…

Some “records” reveal more about those who don’t hold it — than those who do. The “I give up, it can’t be done” mentality MUST have come into play in many of the competitive 2187+ NBA playoff games over the last 25 years. There can be no other explanation for…

The Census Bureau reported that the US trade deficit in goods and services narrowed sharply, from $138.3 billion in March to $61.6 billion in April 2025, the lowest since August 2023. March figures had been distorted by front-loading of goods to beat tariffs.  Imports shrunk 16.3% to a six-month low…

The golfer Scottie Scheffler, winning three times in the month of May 2025, earned $9.63 million this month. Meanwhile, the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team won the SAME number of games in the month of May as Scottie won tournaments. The entire payroll of the Colorado Rockies for one…

BIM was once hailed as transformative in the Built Environment, Design – Construction – Deconstruction. Issues with implementation in the field, employees having no interest in adding work to their plate or being technologically unable to perform the tasks, and human errors beyond comprehension… Well let’s just say we haven’t…

The “factory setting“ on productive Alive humans is not “you must help me, or I will never make it.” The “factory setting“ on humans, the ones who accomplish meaningful feats in life, is “OK cool, this is a bad spot to be in. But WATCH THIS!” We can be trained,…

I wonder what “radical prognostications“ we would hear from Arthur C. Clark, were he alive today? “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  • “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” • “The only way of discovering the limits…

“The Tower of Babel is falling down, falling down, falling down. The Tower of Babel is falling down, my fair lady.“🎶 __________ Funs Jacobs Language barriers are disappearing. And it’s not a 2030 thing.It’s happening right now! Google just rolled out real-time speech translation in Meet, powered by Gemini. You’ll…

Shortly after being with him, he passed away. I still think of Mayor Barry, 11 years later. It has remained a “life lesson” for me and many others that “things are not always as they appear“ and “things are not always for the reasons they appear.” Human life is complex,…

When you are 6‘9“ you can use the uncanny height advantage for basketball success. Fast twitch muscles are for sprinters. Hyper-mobile joints are for gymnasts. A long wingspan is a great advantage for a swimmer. An exceptional VO2 max and large lungs are fantastic for an endurance runner. Ultra-fast neural…

Hey Slick! It’s MAGIC! Every human now has their own internal supply of it! Your insides are now sort of “protected” from acid, radioactive materials, and so much more!  One of the most unbreakable bonds in chemistry—the carbon-fluorine (C–F) bond—is also one of the most troubling. It’s at the heart…

The difference between NO CHANGE in the world, versus CHANGE… is “We want to give you a chance,” versus “We want to give you a chance at greatness!” Two words different. But what a difference.  Which will you do in your company, with your clients and customers, with your family…

If we had the courage and the wisdom to solve root problems, we wouldn’t have to do math for equity. We could change lives instead. And who could be angry at me saying “let’s sacrifice to change lives!“? This was tonight in my neighborhood. Did the crime not think to…

Insightful worldview slipped into the Trump Riyadh speech today: “It’s crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation [Saudi Arabia and the Middle East] has not come from Western interventionists, or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your…

How redundant and how necessary are the various human equipment bits? __________ Pareekh Jain How long could you survive without different organs? Interesting information. Credit: Unknown, ViaWeb See post on LinkedIn

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, “the MIT of the Midwest,” has for over 100 years adopted “Rosie” the Elephant as its unusual mascot.  One of the earliest documented connections occurred in 1902, when two Rose Polytechnic students were arrested for stealing an elephant sign, which they later used as a scoreboard…

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879 essay “Virginibus Puerisque” – “For Girls and Boys” Written over the span of 800 years, starting in the 10th century BC these thoughts are written into the DNA of the…

Only the naïve think there’s any REAL meaningful sustainable difference: Oligarchies, fascism, authoritarianism, theocracy, dictatorship, monarchies, democracy, technocracy, socialism, military dictatorship.  It is always an oligarchy. The golden rule: those who have the gold… rule. Behind the scenes, and behind that scene, and behind that scene, that’s the way it…

500 million out of 1.5 billion outgoing payments are unlabeled? As Treasury Secretary and an international professional, he’s asking the right questions no matter which “side” one might be on: “Where does the money go? We don’t know! Let’s START keeping track!”  Not $500 million. 500 million CHECKS were written…

“No status reports – only RESULT reports.” Yeah, but what if that knocks out bureaucracy, posing, politicking, excuse-making and blame-shifting!? Ummmm. __________ Zamir Shukho, MBA Jensen Huang might be the most unconventional CEO in tech. No 1:1s. No status updates. No long-term roadmaps. And yet – he’s built NVIDIA into a $3…

Are you sure you want to be a Founder, an Entrepreneur?! FREEE-DOM! vs FREEEEE-DUMB? Building the Team, cultivating Investors, product-market fit, scaling, PR, regulatory compliance, KYC, legal, changing technologies, “me-too” relentless competition, leases, HR, IP theft….  No problem. You got this. 😎 See post on LinkedIn

TODAY May 5th… Is the Day Skype Died. RIP (Apologies to another song that made no sense, “American Pie” by Don McLean). Autopsy report below, after the song. A long, long time agoI can still rememberHow that ringtone used to make me smileAnd I knew if I had my chanceThat…

If you removed the empty space from their atoms, the human race would occupy the volume of a single sugar cube. How “self-important” do you feel now, with a fame, fortune and pleasure emphasis? There are “greater things than these.” Song video: https://lnkd.in/e39JwhKV https://lnkd.in/epAaQjKZ See post on LinkedIn

“Live long and prosper!” The ideological platitudes politicians and corporations throw around… aren’t ALWAYS as profound as they sound. Sometimes they’re just compensation for “something else”. Be astute! 😊 See post on LinkedIn

Chasing “shadow” careers, self-serving relationships, recognition, automobiles or houses is cra-cra! You can’t drive a shadow, hug a shadow, or eat a shadow. My nine-year-old just concurred, with emphasis! Recognize the Boot Camp of this present age for what it is, 99.9% atomic space, not the “substance” we are so…

Ungoverned, or ungovernable? When bureaucracies and children and puppies are obviously out of control, the only way to find out whether they are simply lacking in leadership vs poison at the root… Is to bring the right standard and leadership, mercifully and patiently, but relentlessly, over them and around them. …

Algebras’s oldest unsolved problem? No problem! Read article See post on LinkedIn

It’s all true today. HOW WE SEE THE WORLD… CHANGES EVERYTHING. Let’s call it, “From Darkness to Renaissance (meaning Rebirth): Thank you Giotto.” For nearly a thousand years after Rome’s fall, Europe endured what we often call the “Dark Ages”—an era of fragmentation, war, and “art” that was symbolic but…

Privacy: An Endangered FantasyI once dreamed of privacy, a quaint old-fashioned fantasy,But now my home’s an embassy for gadgets with audacity.Alexa’s got the agency, Siri’s got the legacy,My Tesla’s got the secrecy of a caffeinated pharmacy.My toaster’s in a dynasty of kitchenware democracy,It winks at me with intimacy and asks…

The “Canary in the coal mine“ for the depth of psychosis the world is moving quickly towards in areas of morality and social structure and family. Japan is undergoing a profound demographic shift that is reshaping every aspect of its society. For the past 15 years, the country’s population has…

The intricacy of monetary policies, trade policies and tariffs, interest rates, global energy markets… The smartest people don’t pontificate. Dumb people think they know exactly what will happen. __________ Adam Oxsen The Dutch struck oil in the North Sea.But the discovery that should’ve made them ridiculously rich?Nearly destroyed their economy:…

At least I know now why my behavior is so bad. It’s the Skittles. It’s not my fault! It’s always been the Skittles. I don’t know whether to eat these as fast as I can and restock, or donate the extinct Skittles to the Smithsonian Museum!  Synthetic Food Dyes in…

No matter which “side“ you are on – fair point. See post on LinkedIn

In golf instruction there is a saying, “Real vs feel.” What we think of/feel as real – is SELDOM reality. The video, results, and P&L show ACTUAL truth.  What melts in the heat of actual life and competition, or an audit or annual report – was hype or illusion, never…

I love it! Boys ‘n Toys! I used to melt my green plastic army men with a magnifying glass. Same thing! ________ Olawale Kolawole 💡Car Crash Survival Rate Simulation!🤯 Ever imagined how it feels to survive a car accident? The impact our #health, #healthcare, psychic trauma and the post traumatic stress disorder…

The “Engine under the hood” of more things than you’ll ever know about or believe. ________ Nathan Beckord Wall Street runs the markets. NYC family offices 𝘰𝘸𝘯 them. And they could fund your startup. 42% of global billion-dollar single family office are based in NYC, more than London or Dubai. Everyone thinks…

Fascinating stuff. Internet does not lie! How the political system gets hijacked and manipulated by psychopaths: Dr. Jordan Peterson on Psychopaths vs. Empaths Key Differences: • Peterson explains that psychopaths fundamentally lack empathy and compassion, both for others and even for their own future selves. This absence of empathy leads to…

How did that 1971 Coca-Cola commercial go? “I’d like to teach the world to play fiddle, in perfect harmony”? The Mexican army was known for playing the song El Degüello before launching attacks, most famously during the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.  The song they played signaled…

Rubber bumpers. I was 15, with a police detective sitting in my kitchen on a Saturday morning. Thank God for bowling alley rubber bumpers for kids — that keep us out of the gutter in life. We’re not that good. We did not earn that bowling “strike”. Without the bumpers…