bipolar discrimination

Medical student drops program due to bipolar disorder saddled with $170k in debt. Story here.

on progress

"You need to be comfortable being uncomfortable."
- Ginni Rometty, Chairman & CEO IBM, which has more revenues than Apple but less Market Cap

eye of the beholder

"Art is what you can get away with."
- John Baldesarri

Gedogen

Technically illegal, but officially tolerant.
- On Amsterdam

total downfall

Lust for luxury and power.
- On Hermann Göring

there goes De Beers

It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune. Elon Musk will fill Olympic stadium sized auto-piloted  space crafts with them. Instead of paying $25k here for a Tiffany rock or less for one man equivalent made on Earth, the naive will pay $1m for a space rock for the prestige, provenance, branding. Same shit different status. Massive increase in thrust could make a one year harvesting return trip manageble.

lemon

"On average, art appreciates at 3.2%/year. Which is less than the costs of insurance, storage, maintenance, security."
- Don Thompson, York University

the business of art

At $44.4 million, a Georgia O'Keeffe painting set the record for the highest amount paid for a female artist. The all time art auction record is $142.4m for a Francis Bacon piece.

after the invention of the atomic bomb

" I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein

lying liars

Story here.

gut instinct

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
- Maya Angelou

for sure

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
- Lord Acton

on conflation

"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
- Adolph Hitler

Queen Victoria's favourite dish

Stuffed Fish Head

ideal business 101

"Make money and have fun doing so."
- Bill Gore, Gore-Tex

raw

"Try not giving a fuck - it's empowering."
- Mark Maron

on MBAs

Without a net worth of at least $100 million, you have no business teaching business. Exposure to/awareness of mental illness, the disabled, poverty, immigrants, refugees - equally important.

money in politics

Patron Saint of Bankers

"What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?"

- Matthew 16:26

unpresidented

25th Amendment

Section 4.

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Source here.

"Why Buddhism is True"

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) incorporates a lot of Buddhist principles.

how Amazon works

optimist

"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela

The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive

Here.

on alcoholism

"It's true you have a disease, but I think you got the best one."
- Norm Macdonald

on change

"Things take longer to happen than one thinks they will, but then change happens much faster than one conceived."
- Rudi Dornbusch

find the right fit

“Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.”
- Albert Einstein