Last week, to illustrate my newsletter, I wrote “IT’S A COUP” in big red letters across the front of it. Well, guess what? It’s still a coup. Now gaining pace & ferocity. And the collapse of the international order too. This isn’t the front page of the New York Times. But maybe it should be?
Hundreds of FAA workers fired by Trump on the Friday before a busy holiday weekend included radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, and one air traffic controller. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said in a statement on Monday that it was "analyzing the effect of the reported federal employee terminations on aviation safety."
Once again The Honest Sorcerer gets it right: “After the West’s failure to conjure real growth from thin air throughout the 2010's — zero interest rates and shale revolution or not — all what remained is to get other people’s stuff. (Ever wondered, how did our oil and ‘rare earths’ end up underneath their feet?) The approach was soft pow…
My biggest hack for scratching the shopping itch without funding billionaire’s next yacht is accepting boredom.
Being bored with my clothes or my house doesn’t mean that I have to jump to fix it. Not everything needs to be fixed.
Being bored is a normal part of life that corporations have tried to spin as a problem when really boredom is good for us.