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🔗 How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money

"For the ultra-wealthy, money is effectively not finite. It’s just a resource to be pointed at any burning thing. I know you’re looking at your banking app saying $broke and wondering, “how can this be?” and yet: it is true. The most counter intuitive thing is that, not only is the money faucet boundless for them, but in fact, most of the money coming out of the faucet is not their own. People who control large pools of money are very, very eager to let billionaires use their money."

https://anildash.com/2024/07/02/money-flows/

Bob often nails it - and I do like his style.

🔗 The Dems and Napster - An Analogy, Bob Lefsetz

🔗 Same article - with my highlights

https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/07/01/the-napster-analogy/ https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01j1qwnmkssk9xe33m69c2y8ee

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.. is a new one on me - just received from a friend - but it is now part of my vocabulary.

Meanwhile, over on Redditt, I would argue that there is no need to answer question 1 .. just jump to question 2. #Effiicency

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Dear Joe .. you have absolute immunity.

The Foreigner, 2017 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/01/the-foreigner.html

The Sleepover, 2020 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/01/the-sleepover.html

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🔗 💬 The Whole Thing

Don’t know about you - but it definitely resonates for this bear.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/02/01/the-bartleby-trough/

😂 🔗 A recent discovery (for me at least) on Insta - this is one post - but the channel (is that what they call it over there?) is worth following.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C54Judsp5IO/?igsh=MWkybWhkaWJvZWQzdA%3D%3D

📸 I love the little boats bouncing in the bay during the day - but at night - magical.

The Monkees Predicting ATS software THIRTY YEARS before it appeared. https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/30/the-monkees-predicting.html

📺 ** Kaleidoscope**

I remember a news item a few months ago about a series on one of the streaming services that plays the episodes in a random order for each viewer. Clever I thought, a non linear show played on a linear format, moved on and promptly forgot about it.

I just finished it. Really, really g... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/30/kaleidoscope-i-remember.html

Trigger Warning, 2024 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/29/trigger-warning.html

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