My wife booked us a hotel up in the mountains, to try clearing my mind. We just went rafting for a few hours. I spent 10% of the time appreciating nature. And the other 90% thinking about stocks.
God, grant me the serenity to be one of those people who say, "That is an interesting way of looking at it" when some friend makes some ridiculous claim instead of the person who feels compelled to respond with logic and reason.
Everything here is designed to facilitate smooth passage of raw minerals out of Zambia. The greatest value of this corridor is out there after value addition. It’s peanuts as usual for the source. Will we ever learn?
If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.
British International Investments & NAPSA should collab and make it mandatory for all retirement accounts to contain ZMBF shares, so everyone can feel like I do
at this point the last genuinely unique place to travel might be north korea.
everywhere else has been absorbed into the same internet monoculture. e.g. everyone wearing the same clothes & there are the same damn instagram interiors everywhere too, etc.
but north korea is basically one of the last places where the monoculture has not arrived & the only place left that is truly outside the algorithm.