{"id":61662,"date":"2023-11-17T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=61662"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:16:29","slug":"a-reason-and-maybe-more-to-get-excited-a-philosophy-on-how-to-deal-with-the-worlds-irksomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=61662","title":{"rendered":"A reason (and maybe more) to get excited. A philosophy on how to deal with the world’s irksomes."},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re healthy, you’re OK.<\/p>\n

If you can walk, play tennis and get excited about something — anything — you’re doing OK.<\/p>\n

If your investments have exploded upwards in the last few weeks, you’re doing OK.<\/p>\n

If you’re worried to death about Hamas\/Israel, Russia\/Ukraine, and Forever<\/em> Trump, join the party.<\/p>\n

Worst we can’t engage.<\/p>\n

We’re flying a Ukrainian flag outside our tennis club. But the owners (including me) feared that flying an Israeli flag would put our employees and players at risk.<\/p>\n

I offered a dear friend to bet him $1000 that Trump would be our next president. He wrote back this morning, “Cant take the bet but he will not be.\u00a0 If he is, I’ll be looking to establish residency on another planet.”<\/p>\n

He and Elon.<\/p>\n

We all live in a bubble. We can control things in the bubble, but not outside the bubble.<\/p>\n

The good news is that inside our bubble are many things we can improve. Wherever I turn I conclude “What the world needs is….”<\/p>\n

And I see ways to improve, to make our lives better, to create new companies, new projects, new products.<\/p>\n

That’s a nice focus. I’m working on one now.<\/p>\n

I’m excited.<\/p>\n

George Santos wonders<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He spent his stolen money on Ferragamo, Las Vegas trips and Botox treatments. Susan commented “Botox didn’t do him much good.”<\/p>\n

There is huge progress in medicine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t keep up.<\/p>\n

The New York Times headlined:<\/p>\n

New Gene Editing Treatment Cuts Dangerous Cholesterol in Small Study<\/strong>
\n+ The trial involved only 10 patients, but it suggests cholesterol can be permanently reduced with a single treatment for patients at risk of heart disease.<\/p>\n

This is beyond exciting.<\/p>\n

Read about it here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s another one. This time from Bloomberg:<\/p>\n

Wegovy Study Bolsters Use In Patients With Obesity and Heart Disease<\/strong>
\n+ The drug helped control blood sugar, reduce inflammation
\n+ Research is seen as \u2018game-changing\u2019 for obesity patients<\/p>\n

Click here.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Useful Tricks<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

+\u00a0Good Zoom trick: Log into Zoom Meeting Test.<\/em> Check your camera, your speakers, my headset, your mike. Takes ten seconds. Make sure your kids haven’t taped\u00a0 your laptop’s camera. Click here.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

+ Zoom calls sound better when you’re wearing headphones. That’s not because I’m deaf.<\/p>\n

+ Google Chrome is the best browser for Windows. It remembers passwords, fills in addresses, synch between my laptops. And more.<\/p>\n

+ I spent enough preciously money on Verizon while I was in Amsterdam to afford a second iPhone. This time I bought a rejuvenated iPhone 11 at Amazon for $270. Click here.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

+<\/strong> Always limit your emails to one subject.<\/strong> Nobody has the attention span for two, or God Forbid, three.<\/p>\n

+ When unsubscribing<\/strong> doesn’t work (like always),\u00a0 update your profile to something slightly wrong. Like HarryIdiot@idiot.com.<\/p>\n

+ USB chargers come in two strengths —\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05V\/1A for smaller devices like wearables and 5\/V\/2.4A for phones and big devices.. You can charge your phones with the weaker. But it will take forever.<\/p>\n

+ You can get a discount on your house insurance if you have it monitored\u00a0 by a service (no matter how shonky) and you install a water flow control shutoff device. They’re made by people like Moen and Flologic. Every home should have one. There are a zillion makers Check Amazon here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

+ Windows key plus V\u00a0\"\"\u00a0brings up all the things you can paste. It’s really useful.<\/p>\n

Go back to the office<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If Zoom meetings leave you feeling like something is missing, know that you\u2019re not alone. According to a\u00a0new study<\/a>\u00a0by researchers at Yale and University College London, staring at someone\u2019s face on a computer screen results in lower levels of brain activity and social arousal than meeting them in person.<\/p>\n

Go back to the office.<\/p>\n

Four favorite liquids<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Goo Gone:<\/strong>\u00a0Gets rid of sticky stuff from labels, etc.
\nShout:<\/strong> Removes spots your washer won’t.
\nNew Skin:<\/strong> Better than band aids.
\nPalmolive:<\/strong> Works on dishes, cars and floors. Magic cleaner.<\/p>\n

Don’t you love these guys?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Show them to your grandkids.<\/p>\n

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From the New Yorker:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0talks a lot of trash, of course. But three days after his campaign appearance in Claremont, New Hampshire, on Saturday, some of the words he used are still reverberating. At the end of a long and rambling speech, Trump said the following: \u201cIn honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country\u2014that lie and steal and cheat on elections, and will do anything possible; they\u2019ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and to destroy the American Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the phrase \u201clive like vermin within the confines of our country\u201d sounds vaguely familiar, it should. In February, 1933, days after Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany, Wilhelm Kube, a Nazi politician, wrote in a propaganda publication, as reported at the time by the\u00a0Jewish Daily Bulletin<\/em><\/a>: \u201cThe Jews, like vermin, form a line from Potsdamerplatz until Anhalter Banhof.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. The only way to smoke out the vermin is to expel them.\u201d In 1936, when Oswald Mosley\u2019s British Fascists were harassing Jews in London\u2019s East End, they referred to them as \u201crats and vermin from the gutters of Whitechapel.\u201d Hitler himself used similar language more than once. In a 1934 interview, he said, \u201cIf I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin!\u201d<\/p>\n

You can read more here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

There you are. That’ll mess up your day.<\/p>\n

So, go back to the top of this blog and read all the positive stuff about technology, innovation, ideas and medicine.<\/p>\n

I updated the list of stocks I own. See the right hand column on my web site.<\/p>\n

See you later this weekend. — Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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