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Subscribe to my free newsletter for more like this: rosszeiger.substack.com Cover art generated by Dall-e using the prompt: donkey standing between hay and a trough of water Buridan’s Donkey is a tale about a donkey standing halfway between a pile of hay and a bucket of water. The donkey is thirsty and hungry so it spends a moment deciding whether to go for the water or the food. The debate rages...

Since December 2019, I have released just over 100 episodes of my podcast . The first episode was done from a park in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico using nothing but my smartphone and the built-in recording app. Zero editing was done to that episode. Cars can be heard in the background. People talking.  A simple outline was made with bullet points in the note app on my phone. No money was spent. A...

Fifth in the Ben Frank series. Timestamps: 0:00 - Ben sails to London 0:40 - Arriving in London 1:00 - Plans go awry 1:24 - Making the most of it 1:50 - Thomas Denham and the General Store 2:20 - Plan for Future Conduct 4:26 - Why I Love Studying Franklin

Fourth in the Ben Frank series Timestamps: 0:00 - Ben's Apprenticeship in the Candle Shop 0:45 - Ben's Next Apprenticeships 1:27 - Ben as a Writer 2:54 - Silence Dogood  4:20 - Benjamin's Reading Habits 4:52 - Ending the Apprenticeship 5:08 - Escape to Philly 5:52 - Philadelphia AI Cover art prompt: Benjamin Franklin writing with the ghost of his character silence dogood hovering above him, d...

Third episode in the Benjamin Franklin series. Cover art compliments of Dall-E with the prompt: benjamin franklin as a boy in colonial boston Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:22 - Quote about Ben from Walter Isaacson 3:30 - Benjamin Franklin's Early Years Quote from Walter Isaacson: "Benjamin Franklin was, during his 84 year life America’s best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business...

Second episode in a series on Benjamin Franklin. Episode cover created by Dall-E AI with the prompt: benjamin franklin at a junto meeting in the style of frida kahlo Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:56 - The Four Questions That Opened Every Meeting 1:55 - Junto 2:36 - Lessons of the Junto 2:49 - Self-improvement 3:13 - The 24 Questions 7:11 - Junto as an Incubator Questions to the Junto at the beginning...

First in a series on Benjamin Franklin.  Timestamps: 0:00 - Benjamin Franklin Introduction 1:04 - The Parable of the Whistle 3:53 - Conclusion To find all of Franklin's writings: https://franklinpapers.org Cover art created with Dall-E using the prompt: make a painting of benjamin franklin blowing a whistle and standing in front of the wall street bull This is an excerpt from a letter he wrot...

115,000 taco stands in Mexico! https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/study-identifies-115000-taco-vendors-in-mexico/  Dogs! Dogs everywhere! https://youtube.com/shorts/9zIzGqp53f4?feature=share  Even more dogs: https://youtube.com/shorts/E9oyAlof-J8?feature=share  Dog parking: https://youtube.com/shorts/ioGtcKzBsik?feature=share  Just over a month into living in Mexico City and I've...

We are now settled into our new expat life in Mexico City! Some quick thoughts on leaving the US and what is next. Check out my Substack at rosszeiger.substack.com The Cover Art for this episode was generated using Open AI's Dall-E 2 software. Make your own by clicking here .

A reading of the excellent essay "I, Pencil" written by Leonard E. Read in 1958. All credit to the author.  The text can be downloaded and read at the following link: https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/ Let me know if you enjoyed today's episode!

Mexico City: Vibrant. Friendly. Beautiful. Quiet. Green. Delicious. Incredible.

Extra special episode today. The venerable Dr. Park sat down with me in a room packed with dogs to discuss the finer - and some not so fine - points  of life in Austin. 

Some thoughts on a recent trip to beautiful Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Canada Immigration source: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2021/12/canada-welcomes-the-most-immigrants-in-a-single-year-in-its-history.html Ukraine Refugee numbers: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/ukraine-measures/key-figur...

Some quick thoughts on a recent trip to the wonderful city of Monterrey, Mexico.

The global population sits just under 8 billion people and appears to be leveling off. The decline and growth of populations will break or make countries this century. Video can be found at: https://youtu.be/ixSH8s444Jc

A book review on the book Die with Zero by Bill Perkins. For the first time ever, this episode is made in video and audio format.  Video can be found on YouTube at the following link: https://youtu.be/1ttEk2xvALo

Technology is making things cheaper! Sources used: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1913?amount=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act?wprov=sfti1 https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/2016/09/08/the-growth-of-urban-american-homes-in-the-last-100-years/ https://www.kbb.com/hyundai/accent/

Inflation and the CPI. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI release of March 10, 2022: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

The Bandwagon Effect is the phenomenon of an idea or fad growing faster as more people adopt it. Memes.

The bias of favoring our group over an outside group.

Self-serving bias is the bias that our failures are situational but our success is due to hard work and cunning planning.

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” -George Carlin

IKEA effect is the tendency to overvalue things we’ve built or contributed to ourselves.

Continuing the cognitive bias series with an episode on the Confirmation Bias.

Anchoring Bias