Sunday Reads and Listens...Is Sunlight The Best Disinfectant? Why Is Fraud Rampant?

Happy Sunday

Ellen and I have our home back. We LOVE our kids but we are also very used to empty nest life!

I took the afternoon off on Friday to golf with Max at Scottsdale National. I am so lucky to have friends that are members and will take us.

I do not love playing 18 holes anymore as my wrist is messed up from a cycling fall that will not heal, but I love the high desert of Scottsdale National, the 3 hour rounds and watching Max play golf. He shot 71.

Rachel is off on a girls hiking trip to Sedona and The Grand Canyon before heading back to New York.

While the markets cruise higher around the world, the temperature of the people that inhabit the world continue to rise. Not in a good way.

I like this quote from ‘Jack Smith’ (not the real Jack Smith) that explains some of it.

The dumb, miserable, hate filled people have globbed onto ‘the word genocide’ to explain the Gaza war.

God forbid, the definition of genocide, data and math actually mattered…

The ‘smart’ people are acting like assholes too.

I was following the ‘Nazi’ drama of Substack the last few weeks which was stupid and awful. You can read about it here, here and here.

If you and your customers are discussing whether you have a Nazi problem, YOU HAVE A NAZI PROBLEM!

The owners of Substack decided to hide behind ‘sunlight is the best disinfectant’.

Here is where I stand on sunlight and Nazi’s (Hamas too)…no more sunlight needed!

Substack did NOT have a Nazi problem. They had a handful of disgusting Nazi newsletters that they chose not to rid themselves of. They decided to stand with Nazi’s because of ‘sunlight’. Now they have a Nazi problem.

Good luck cleaning up that SEO in Google.

Moving on the boom in FRAUD. Yes fraud.

It makes sense that in a world where people can’t/won’t look up simple definitions or data or do the math that fraud is rampant.

It is rampant in corporate America, universities (students), the stock and bond market and now of course academia. Freakonomics did a deep dive on the rampant fraud in academia.

It is not all bad…

Like I said, markets around the world are climbing. The stock market is NOT the economy.

Rampant laziness, stupidity, hate and fraud is good for stocks!

The other thing great for stocks and markets is innovation.

The best of CES is pretty cool…

My friend Michael talks about AI coming in all shapes and sizes.

Finally…

I was on a couple podcasts recently that turned out well. I say this because friends I trust that listened told me so.

This is the Making Markets podcast and I talked about my wins, misses, comedy, degen economy and career advice.

This ‘How Being Wierd Is A Deal Flow Superpower’ on the Superclusters podcast with David.

Have a great Sunday