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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Dow is up nicely. Nasdaq tech stocks are down not so nicely.<\/p>\n
Some of our favorites are doing awfully — Square, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Paypal, Alibaba.<\/p>\n
If you look at each day, one day you’re a genius. The next day an idiot.<\/p>\n
Today, I’m an idiot.<\/p>\n
Can I control this? No.<\/p>\n
I don’t need to look at it every day.<\/p>\n
I can figure happiness. I’ve been reading on happiness for months. There are happy places like Norway and Bhutan where I don’t want to live.<\/p>\n
My phone rings. My friend’s portfolio is down $160,000 today. Forget the $160,000. He’s unhappy about the $190 he just got fined in New York City for going through a red light on a bicycle. I tried to cheer him. It could have been his second offense — $550. Or his third — well over $1,000. New York City is serious about red lights, occasionally.<\/p>\n
In misery, there is opportunity. There is a place called TicketClinic.com.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The best discussion on happiness is brand-new, just out:<\/p>\n Click here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Happiness for me used to speaking in front of 1,500\u00a0 people and making them laugh. Sadness is when the 90 minutes ended.<\/p>\n Happiness today is reading stories to my grandkids. Unhappiness is when one of them, Peter, coughs in my face.<\/p>\n Happiness is a great backhand down-the-line winner.<\/p>\n Happiness is when I can afford the lifestyle my family (and I) enjoy.<\/p>\n Happiness is also the joy of figuring the “logic” of things. Latest logic:<\/p>\n + Marketers are adding “features” to things. Air conditioners (which I’m looking at) come in many “stages.” The top end one is twice the price of the low end one. Yet they both cool to the same temperature.<\/p>\n + Bitcoin is fantastic marketing hype. Only five million bitcoins. Ten million users, up from five million a week ago (or whenever). Brilliant marketing. Great story.<\/p>\n I love marketing. Once I gave away buttons:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n