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Poem for Monday, December 29, 2025

The Things Business Gets Wrong

Quit Using These Bad Arguments

Surprising Stats (Cost of Living Edition)

Evil, a Misunderstood Problem

Partial List of Things That Should Be Obvious But Somehow Aren't

Ranking the Trump Transgressions

Don't Oklahoma City My Tokyo

Against Teaching Kids Good Behavior Via Violence

Surprising Stats (Suboptimal Edition)

Surprising Stats (What Goes Up . . . Edition)

Surprising Stats (Jobs Edition)

Surprising Stats (Good News Edition)

Surprising Stats (Cars Edition)

Do-It-Yourself Ruination

Links - Pithy Recent Quotables That Caught My Eye

Bucket List versus Lifestyle - Dimension Analysis

I'm Theft Proof

Surprising Stats

Uncomfortable Reasons for Falling Fertility

Quotes From My Favorite Thinkers

When it Comes to Public Policy, Magnitude Matters

Links - Air Travel Today

Links - Good News that Conflicts with Dogma is Ignored

Is the Market Pricing in TACO?

Alaska - My Last U.S. Frontier

Links - Something Completely Different

Links - Great Recession, GFC, and Real Estate Share a Broken Script

Vermont - 49th State Unlocked

We Are All Welfare Queens Now

Links - The Normalcy of the Extraordinary

Links - It’s Getting Better

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea?

Horseshoes and Bedfellows

In Defense of a Double Standard

License to Drive

Your Photos Suck, Do Better

It May Take a Crisis

Links - Most People Don’t Understand . . .

Links - Brutal Honesty

Is Politics Pizza or Bananas?

Links - Government Doesn’t Work

Links - Watching As Trump Takes More Rope

Immigrants Need A John Galt Moment:

Partial List of Shallow Takes That Get Repeated All the Time

Links - He’s Not Tough Just Cruel

Choose Your Miracle-Free Future With No Regrets

I'm Still Looking For the Snowman

TALA for the Long Run

The Signal and Noise of Measurement and Metrics

A Different Code for AI Alignment

Links - Clear Thinking on Contentious Topics

Links - True Unfairness

Links - #Goals

Even If You Knew The Future You'd Likely Make Investment Mistakes

Partial List of Things I'm Very Tired Of

Matthew Broderick Tried to Tell Us

International Trade in One Lesson

4D Chess?

Links - Threats to Our Success

Trump's Promises and Claims

Links - Moral Values and Immigration

So You Think You Made Money, Huh

Should Remote Work Be a Benefit Extended Only to Workers with Seniority?

A Trump Speech on Trade (if he understood it)

Links - Impeachment Watch

Disagreements Among The Faithful

Ok, Boomer, It's On!

Links - FAA (trouble in the control tower)

Directionalist versus Destinationist

Partial List of Things an Aging Society Strengthens

Thinking Like a CEO

What Are You Really Mad About?

Trump's Promises and Claims

Partial List of Jobs AI Threatens Not Now But Soon Enough

Partial List of Jobs Threatened by AI in the Near Term

Is DOGE All Bark and No Bite?

Remarkable Conceptual Frameworks

Links - Redux

Where I'm Putting My Money

Crypto Value Factors

The Time Traveler's Perspective

Links - Debunking

Links - Uncomfortable But True

Tariffs in One Lesson

Links - Emotions Are Misleading

The Passing of Presidents

Links - Climate and Claims

The Quick Wit Versus the NPCs

Who I Read and Listen To and, Therefore, Believe

I Bet You're Wrong

Links - Immigration

Rationalizations in Meme Form

Trump's Promises and Claims

Three Lists of So-Called Problems

You Can't Have It Both Ways

Goals in the 50th Year

Links - Unintended <> Unforeseeable

Dialing Back Concerns Regarding Seed Oils

52 Things I Learned in 2024