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Like Good Soldiers Do - This is a guest post by my friend, former soldier, current barbell coach, and all around good man, Nicholas Koldewey. It’s important. Read it. It was December 6th, 2014. I was a young second lieutenant in the infantry with a brand-new infantry platoon on his first deployment to Afghanistan. I had been in command of …
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Getting Started with Pipe Smoking - In the last week I’ve gotten a BUNCH of requests from readers and listeners for a primer and/or pointers on pipe smoking. I’m no expert. I smoke what I like the way I like to. I’m very likely to be “wrong” about how I do this, but I enjoy the hobby and hope you will …
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From “The Life of Pythagoras” by Iamblichus - Exercise your erudition, just as you do your body. To the young men at the Gymnasium, he spoke of the duty of paying attention to their elders ; evincing that in the world, in life, in cities, and in nature, that which has a precedency is more honorable than that which is consequent in time. …
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Insist on Dividends - Always insist on dividends. As a shareholder, you are entitled to your pro-rata share of earnings. They are the stock market’s safety belt. Consider the 90 years through December 2016. According to a study by Hendrik Bessembinder, a professor at Arizona State University, there were almost 26,000 publicly traded U.S. companies during this stretch. They were listed …
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BBL Podcast feedback - Here’s some feedback from iTunes for the Barbell Logic Podcast TC, 10/26/2019AverageDecent podcast with some good information. After listening for a while, I wish Matt would find a more likeable cohost. Scott is insufferable. I can’t do it anymore. Please don’t do it anymore. Unsubscribes are welcome. l, 08/15/2019It’s just tough to listen to sometimes…They …
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Logic 3, The Second Law, The Law of Noncontradiction - In the first two articles I wrote about being, and the first Law of thought, The Law of Identity. Go check those out before you jump into this one. This second law, the Law of Noncontradiction, and the Third law both follow from the Law of Identity. They are correlates and consequences of the first …
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Do NOT beat around the bush. Lessons from “Tiger” Mike Davis - 10 years ago someone showed me a set of memos from “Tiger Mike” Davis, owner of Tiger Oil Company. I loved them immediately. I share a lot of business philosophy with Mr. Davis. Recently I was reminded of these memos and looked them up on the interwebs and in doing I found that Mr. Davis …
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A report from corporate America - This was just sent to me from a friend who works at a Giant company. Those who can’t compete change the rules so they can. My friend, and you dear reader, should head for the exits. If you don’t bow and become an “Ally” of the kind of underwear they like or the way they …
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The Academy, A Modest Proposal - I often attend the meetings of a group we call “Three Seventeen.” It’s a group that meets at a friend’s restaurant at 3:17pm each Sunday. We talk about everything. What follows is an essay I wrote in 2018 for discussion in that group. We believe that rational education is the underpinning of human well-being. Humans, …
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Logic 2, The First Law, the Law of Identity - In part one of this series, I described a very few of Aristotle’s axioms. He believed that understanding a few primary things about being would allow us to build valid arguments and reasoning for everything that followed, which he called the posterior. To summarize that first part, “being is.” Aristotle ran into people who disagree. …
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