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Welcome back. It's been a while, but sometimes that's how these things go. I decided that

nobody needs to hear from me once a week, maybe once every month or two when I had something

useful to say. It was a better cadence. So that's why it's been a while, but we're back.

One big idea that I've always believed is that if you have a good idea, a powerful idea

about how the world works, it can be for money, investing, politics, doesn't matter what it is.

If it's a big idea, you can probably explain it very quickly. You don't need a book to explain it. A couple of lines,

a short little story should do before you're like, okay, that's a good one. I can now look for

that in the rest of the world and contextualize my own life around that. And so what I want to do

in today's episode is share with you eight or so points that I've been thinking about lately in the last couple of months.

And I try to look for these points in other areas of the world because I'm like,

I think that's a big one that explains what's going on in my life, what's going on in the world,

how the rest of the world works.

So let me share with you a couple of stories that are big things that I'm pretty sure

about. All right, number one, I broke my back skiing when I was a teenager. Some miserable

experience. And many decades later, it is still screwed up. I've got a bad back. And I

occasionally tweak it. And when it tweaks it, and it can be anything, I can be brushing my teeth, putting on a seatbelt, doesn't matter what it is. I tweak it in a funny way, and it leaves me in absolute agony for three or four days. If you've had a back injury, you know what I'm talking about. It is excruciating. And when I'm in these moments, when I'm in a lot of pain, something that I've

noticed, I'm not proud of this, it's just the truth, is that I become irritable and short-tempered

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