He blocks the Strait of Hormuz.
And the market goes up.
This is not “logic.”
I have no idea what it is.
But I’ll take it.
The only lesson is Stay In.
Which brings me to something more important: Your health.
Two dear friends took their sweaters off and broke their hips. One yesterday. Both ended up in hospital.
One fellow who ended in hospital with a broken hip emerged with a repaired hip and busted legs. He can now barely walk. Something went wrong with the anesthetic in the hospital. Nobody knows what went wrong.
But I do: A hospital is a dangerous place. It nearly killed me once. One of their young doctors misdiagnosed me. I could have died, had I believed him.
We can’t avoid accidents. But we can avoid stupidity.
The first key is to keep moving. Get into better physical condition. When something happens — and it will — you want to react quickly. You can react quickly if you’re in good physical condition.
Not doing stupid helps. For example:
+ Always hold the railing when you go down stairs.
+ Look both ways twice. Being hit by something heavy and fast moving — like a car, a bus, or a motorized electric messenger bicycle — is not healthy. My grandson got hit by a car because he didn’t look both ways twice.
+ Some floors are slippery. Like bathrooms. Walking gingerly is not a sin.
If you think Harry (that’s me) is a nag and irritating, you’re right.
I’m talking to myself as much as I’m talking to you. So there.
I played tennis today. I will play tomorrow.
No more plastic bottles.
I’ve always known that plastic seeps into your body…But, the weekend’s New York Times Book Review section wrote this unbelievable stuff:
Last year, researchers at the University of New Mexico studying brain samples from two dozen people who died in 2024 estimated that each person’s brain contained around seven grams of plastic — an entire disposable spoon’s worth. Those who suffered from dementia had more plastic in their brains than those who did not. That’s correlation, not causation, and it will be years before scientists understand the health consequences of these synthetic particles in our tissue, but it is worrying all the same. When the researchers compared the 2024 brains with those of people who had died eight years earlier, the more recently deceased contained nearly 50 percent more plastic.
The study encapsulates the whole story of our planet awash in the stuff: Plastic has seeped into the most intimate recesses of our bodies, is implicated in a range of horrifying health outcomes and is rapidly accumulating in our environment in ever larger amounts. How did we get here — to the spoon in our brains?
In short, you don’t need plastic bottles.
You can read the rest of the book review here.
Stay in shape with tennis and fast walking.
The best podcasts ever
They best podcasts are made by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal from a place called Acquired. . Their belief: Every company has a story. I love their stuff. Their latest is on:
They write:
Ferrari is the pinnacle of luxury scarcity. Across its entire 79-year history, the company has sold just 330,000 cars at an average price today of $500,000. For context, Hermès sells that many Birkins and Kellys roughly every 2 years, and Rolex moves that many watches every 3 months.
And yet this ultimate luxury product also lives under the same roof with a widely beloved professional sports team. one with 400 million rabid fans from all walks of life who live and die by the Scuderia’s performance every F1 race weekend!
How is it possible that these two seemingly contradictory customer bases can coexist within the same company? And far from destroying each other’s value, only reinforce it?
The answer, it turns out, is a beautiful, bloody, tragic and romantic opera that spans two families and three generations – and just might be one of the best tales we’ve ever told on Acquired.
There’s a million places to download the Ferrari podcast. I use Pocketcasts.
Favorite cartoons
Susan loves grapefruit. Go figure.
Donald’s decision-making
Bob Woodward was on TV last night talking about Prsident Trump, a man he has interviewed many times. Woodward said Trump dosn’t think through the consquences of his ideas/ his decisions. The word “consquences” sums up my long-held belief that Trump simply doesn’t think things through. He believes because he thought of the idea and his name is attached that it is guaranteed to work.
See you tomorrow.– Harry Newton
