It sucks..it is one of the worst feelings knowing that no matter what you do or how hard you try, you will never escape the valley of mediocrity. You are good, but never among the best. And no matter how hard you try, the stars never align in your favor. You cannot get that essential… Continue reading Escaping the valley of mediocrity

I have been thinking about the rise of ‘grievance politics’ over the past few years; specifically, why so many people, especially millennials and gen-z, feel so angry and victimized that they have taken to ‘extreme beliefs,’ be it grievance studies, grievance politics, ‘cancel culture,’ or ‘wokeness;’ and, not just to pick on the the left,… Continue reading On the Source of Woke Rage: Why is Everyone So Angry?

For years on this blog, I have posited a link a between IQ and options/stock trading success, in that smarter traders tend to be more successful than less intelligent ones. Aggressive out-of-money call options trading, which is the dominant strategy on the hugely popular Reddit sub /r/WallStreetBets, is often likened to playing the lottery, as… Continue reading Further evidence of the positive role of IQ and option trading success

In the post High-status, low-status conservatism in regard to a Tweet by Eric Trump, I discuss the paradox of popularity, which how popular messages are not necessarily viral. A social media post, commentary, or opinion may be popular in terms of social signals (likes, comments, retweets, views, etc), but this does not imply that is… Continue reading The paradox of popularity: how popular messages are not necessarily viral

Having purged any dissenters from his site, Vox is back to discussing Jordan Peterson, comic books, Disney, and other pressing matters of national importance, as if him hyping Q and ‘the storm’ over 2019-2020 never happened. You cannot just ‘memory hole’ Q and expect no one will notice. To recap, in 2019 and 2020, leading… Continue reading So much for that…

The possibility of a post-scarcity economy is no longer a sci-fi or political-science abstraction, but is rapidly becoming reality, as I predicted a year ago in the Jan 2020 article Is a post-scarcity economy possible? It’s already happening. Since the publication of that article, all of the trends I forecasted have accelerated: bigger and richer… Continue reading The March Towards A Post-Scarcity Economy: Thoughts and Implications

I did not expect I would be writing another GameStop (GME) post, but this is the biggest story in the news now, by far. It has enthralled the internet and punditry, especially social media, with an intensity that rivals even the Capitol Hill protests, the 2020 election, the inauguration of Biden, Covid, or any other… Continue reading Thoughts on GME (GameStop)

As GameStop stock continues to surge, up 300% in just two days (at $350/share as of writing this, from $40 just last week), likely a feeling a regret has set in among those who watched the stock rise to dizzying heights but didn’t act. Such returns are magnified even more so, by a factor of… Continue reading Getting Rich with GameStop is Not like Winning the Lottery

It is interesting how the media frames ethno-nationalists and white nationalists as extremists compared to civ-nats (or mainstream conservatives, in general), yet if you go down the actual issues and policy, a different picture emerges. Consider Kevin Williamson, who writes for National Review and epitomizes the archetypical civ-nat. In 2017 I referred to him as… Continue reading The ‘Extremism’ of Civic Nationalism

I am finding it increasingly difficult to consume information without being overwhelmed. There are so many articles, books, blog posts I want to read; so many podcasts to listen to; so many discussions to participate in, and so on. Between 2017-2018 it seemed there was a dearth of stuff going on, except for perhaps North… Continue reading Making sense of the news cycle