Author Archives: Chris

Here’s another interesting term: “Hedging your bet”. It means betting against your main gamble, to limit your risk. That way, if your original bet fails, you recover some of the money from those other bets. Generally, it also means that you’re refusing to fully commit to one idea, to avoid being wrong. My life usedContinue reading “Buy-in or Opt-out”

I know that I spend a lot of time here, postulating wildly unsupported speculations and theories. It’s fun and I will keep doing it. But, I have a piece of genuine, 100% certain to be correct, advice: Do different things. Yes, it’s underwhelming at first, but give me a moment to explain. Our strongest evolutionaryContinue reading “I have learned one thing”

For the last couple of days, I have been agitated and ornery, ready to argue with everything I don’t agree with. And, as you would suspect, I tend to find A LOT of things disagreeable when I am in such a mood. I could have spent the entire fighting with people. I tried to ventContinue reading “Slow down, whippersnappers!”