Ignorant critics are your best friends
Published: Tue, 05/27/25
Updated: Tue, 05/27/25
And other insights from a life of publishing. You have probably heard the story of the producer who turned down The Beatles on the grounds that…
The Happy Earner
I send out value-packed emails about earning income online, which I've been doing with great success since 2010. I would have saved myself a lot of agony and frustration if I'd had the information people on this email list receive every day!
How I finish work every day at noon
Published: Mon, 05/26/25
Updated: Tue, 05/27/25
I remember Gary North writing an article years ago called something like: "How I finish my work every day at noon." The answer? "I wake up at…
Welp, just checked my account
Published: Fri, 05/23/25
Updated: Sat, 05/24/25
and guess what I found. As I lay in my hospital bed in 2021 (a rare place for me to be, since I have spent my life in robust health), I decided I…
You still up?
Published: Fri, 05/23/25
Updated: Fri, 05/23/25
You still up? It's midnight...Eastern! (Which means I'm up doing Wordle just as the new day's puzzle is released.)Did you miss the deadline for The…
David Gordon leaves Woods daughter confused
Published: Thu, 05/22/25
Updated: Fri, 05/23/25
with one of his jokes. Most of you, I suspect, know the name David Gordon: he is the man Murray Rothbard called a "universal genius" and who's a…
Your mail wound up in my box
Published: Thu, 05/22/25
Updated: Thu, 05/22/25
Let me share something I just received in the ol' mailbag, because in a way I think it's more for you than for me: I’m a homeschool mom of four and I…
When my students were jerks
Published: Wed, 05/21/25
Updated: Wed, 05/21/25
For the most part, I genuinely loved my students. They may have come into my classes knowing nothing, but that was better than entering my classes…
Listen to the creepy senator
Published: Tue, 05/20/25
Updated: Tue, 05/20/25
I'm not the kind of person who does X. Nobody would care about anything I do. I'm not good enough. I'm not really an e pert, so I'd just be a fake if…
How to become unpopular
Published: Mon, 05/19/25
Updated: Mon, 05/19/25
I made it look easy. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a society in which math nerds were respected and looked up to, instead of shamed and ridiculed?…
How to stay safe from myocarditis
Published: Sun, 05/18/25
Updated: Mon, 05/19/25
Perhaps over the course of this month you've managed to withstand all my urging, my imploring, my beseeching that you learn about how to build a…