Why You Can't Win an Argument or Even Argue Anymore: Four Books That Explain It
Jonathan Sacks, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, al-Ghazali, and Alasdair MacIntyre on religious violence, cheap grace, and the death of moral language.
Capital Mischief
Capital Mischief: what I learned briefing six presidents, applied to your portfolio. The market-moving events. Before the smart money sees them.
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The "54% Secret" a Billionaire Athlete Confessed to a Thousand Kids in the Rain... That Explains Why You Keep Quitting Things Right Before They Work
Roger Federer won 80% of his matches and 54% of his points. The gap between those numbers is where your whole career happens.
ATLAS NEVER SHRUGGED. THE POOR BASTARD KEPT WORKING.
Washington piled $40 Trillion on his back, stuck one hand in his wallet, and used the other one to point at him and say, ‘You greedy son of a bitch. Carry more.’”
Free Everything Is Coming for Your Money. Here Is What to Do Before 2028.
Free buses: $652 million. Universal childcare: $6 billion. Nine DSA proposals: up to $212 trillion. Every billionaire in America: $8.4 trillion. Do the subtraction before they take it from you.
Dear Charlie #43: Momma Went Home on Thursday, Three Readers Told Me I Write in Riddles, and a Girl on Fire Watch in 1991 Answered My Own Question Against Me.
Five days about doors that lock and the men selling a second one. The two letters I will keep were a woman coming home from the hospital and a room telling its host he is hard to read.
THE NEXT FORTUNE IS IN SELLING A SECOND DOOR TO PEOPLE WHO JUST DISCOVERED THE FIRST ONE LOCKS
America can freeze the money. China can stop the minerals. Iran can stop the oil. Three books explain why the world is spending trillions on second doors, and who gets paid to build them.
Oprah Pledged A 15 Year Old $10 Million on Live TV... Her COO Asked 3 Questions He Couldn’t Answer. He Got the Money Anyway.
He was pen-palling a future Nobel laureate at 12 and sliding a 1,000 letters under hotel doors at 13. Today he builds legacies for Oprah, Madonna, the Dalai Lama, and Martin Luther King III.
Three Men Signed a Defense Pact in Mecca. Ten Months Ago I Told You This Was Coming. The Bill Just Arrived, and Your Portfolio Is the Co-Signer.
Riyadh Bought Nuclear Insurance in October. Turkey Just Joined the Group Plan. The Premiums Are Payable in Everything You Own.
Everyone Is Watching the Yen Fall. Almost Nobody Owns the Thing It Lands On.
One Japanese stock gets paid by the exact force that is coming for your bond fund. I own it, I name it inside, and I show you who I found next to me on the shareholder register.
Dear Charlie #42: A Silent Reader of Five Months Arrived With Artillery, a Machine Ate Sixty-Three Letters and the Room Went and Got Them Back, and Momma Walked Out of the ICU.
I put my thumb in the most divisive socket in American politics. Then a machine ate sixty-three letters and the room went and got them back.
Two Men, 260 Years Apart, on Opposite Sides of a Religious War, Independently Invented the Same Notebook. Here Is What Was In It.
One founded the Jesuits. The other was born in a city that had just outlawed them.
He Put God on a To-Do List at Twenty-Two, Between an Oscar and Staying Close to Mom. Thirty-Four Years Later He'd Change Nothing.
He wrote an Oscar on a to-do list at twenty-two, mailed himself sixteen-page letters, and cut his own parachute with the money still on the table. Also, sleep was a sin in his house.
Dear Charlie #41½: A Man Named Bill Called Me Lovely and My Wife Immediately Questioned His Sample Size, and Eleven Hours Later My New Team Deleted the Best Thread This Publication Has Ever Had.
A knighthood carried to the kitchen, a house in Alaska with no building code, fifty-three comments Substack cannot restore, and one reader who kept a copy.