Monthly update - the crushing effect of tax on wealth creation.
https://www.bemoreliketim.blog/posts/february-2025-update/february-2025-update/
They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever
The hardest truth about happiness is that it's a choice.
Watch how people discuss their problems. They'll spend hours explaining why things are terrible, how unfair life is, and how others need to change. But suggest they might have the power to improve things and they suddenly have countless reasons why that's impossible.
Self-pity feels safer than responsibility.
-Shane Parrish
January 2025 NW update plus a tip on having opinions
https://www.bemoreliketim.blog/posts/january-2025-update/january-2025-update/
Nearly everything awesome takes longer than you think.
Get started and don't worry about the clock.
-@JamesClear
"People can sometimes be held hostage by their expectations. They have a dream of something they would like to achieve or a path they intend to follow, but their mindset falls apart when things don't work out how they had hoped.
The key is to reach for an extremely high bar, but to be adaptable enough to reframe the failures, disappointments, and defeats into fuel for the next thing. Give your best effort, but no matter how it works out, trust that life will be good for you. Focus on how the world is working with you, not against you.
Everything you are given is material for the next move. Everything."
— James Clear
Incredible interview/discussion around the UKs power networks. No sensationalism or drama, just straight talking about the facts. One observation around the (sensationalist amd dramatic) comments - nuclear is low carbon right?
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way,” said the novelist E. L. Doctorow. -ht Ozan Varol
December 2024 NW update, including some certain 2025 predictions . . .
https://www.bemoreliketim.blog/posts/december-2024-update/december-2024-update/
Prospective students should ask,
1) does this degree provides a clear path to earn more than a train driver and . .
2) is there a vocational path to the same outcome via company sponsored studying.
Getting ~£100k in debt in many cases is a waste of time and money.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/aug/29/uk-graduates-struggle-job-market
#graduates #university #degree #alevel #students
To engineers, financiers and ex-NHS staff the desert city looks like everything Britain is not: orderly, efficient and safe
Stop fighting your nature. Start winning with it.
You're born with certain core traits. Fighting them is like being a sprinter forced to run marathons – exhausting and futile. But these "limitations" can become your biggest advantage.
Your instincts, personality, and preferences aren't flaws - they're features.
When something seems to be holding you back that you can't change, the key is to change your environment. What's a headwind in one situation is a tailwind in another.
The introvert's edge in sales: Don't fake extrovert energy. Win through deep research and lasting relationships. While others work the room searching for a transaction, you can build long-term relationships.
Not a morning person? Embrace it: That 5 AM workout routine you keep missing? Stop punishing yourself. Build your peak performance hours into your schedule.
Are you obsessive about the details? Use it to your advantage. While others skim the surface, your thoroughness spots opportunities they miss and avoids costly mistakes they make. What others see as obsessiveness becomes an uncopyable competitive edge.
The most successful people don't fight their nature. They architect their environment to amplify it.
Stop asking: "How do I fix myself?" Start asking: "How do I position myself where my natural traits are assets?" - Shane Parrish
"The planning documentation for the Lower Thames Crossing, a proposed tunnel . . connecting Kent and Essex, runs to 360k pages, and . . has cost £297m. That is more than x2 as much as it cost in Norway to . . build the longest road tunnel in the world"
Prospective students should ask,
1) does this degree provides a clear path to earn more than a train driver and . .
2) is there a vocational path to the same outcome via company sponsored studying.
Getting ~£100k in debt in many cases is a waste of time and money.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/aug/29/uk-graduates-struggle-job-market
#graduates #university #degree #alevel #students
Some disappointment upcoming for some people . .
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/22/boomers-gen-z-millennials-financial-success
Chinese cars, student loans, minimum wage and BTC to the moon . . another monthly NW update:
https://bemoreliketim.blog/posts/november-2024-update/nov-2024-update/
“If your beliefs are not falsifiable, if there’s no scenario that could convince you that your most cherished opinions are in error, well then that’s proof that you didn’t get them by being in contact with reality.” -Sam Harris