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Four Reasons Quibi Is Doomed To Fail
Quibi, which rhymes with Libby, has been dunked on for a while. Launching in the midst of a pandemic in April 2020, the streaming site (which stands for “Quick Bites”) has not gotten off to a good start. I think the best way you can sum up its current standing is a baffling quote from CEO Meg Whitman on her favorite shows: The Vulture article, from journalist Benjamin Wallace, is a wonderful dive into the company and how it failed. Here I’ll outline some of the many reasons why it has failed to land and will not survive in the land of Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV, and…
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Why Amazon Is A Sand Mandala
If only I had a time machine, I’d go back in time to kill Hitler, shake hands with Stanley Kubrick (the greatest filmmaker of all time), and finally arrive in 1997 and buy shares in Amazon. According to The Motley Fool if you had invested $500 at the IPO price, your shares would have been worth over $568,000 in 2019. That number has gone up in the midst of Covid-19. Kindle that fire… I was struck this week reading The Economist‘s excellent deep dive into Amazon and its future. The thesis of the Briefing goes something like this (keep in mind that this blog is free and it’s probably worth…
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10 Sure Ways to Save Money
These are all blatantly taken from the wonderful work of Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin and their book “Your Money or Your Life” that offers up ways to find happiness in your life with frugality. They offer up a series of ways to save money (or as they might put it, re-allocate your life energy in ways that are in line with your values). Without adieu, here they are: This would be a classic example of what NOT to do… Don’t Go Shopping. Don’t make trips that are explicitly for the purpose of mindless shopping. Limit those opportunities whether it is checking out the newest Amazon sale for stuff you don’t…
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Book Review: “The Total Money Makeover” by Dave Ramsey (2009)
A look at Dave Ramsey's philosophy and book.
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What’s your wealth number?
A new article from Bloomberg gives a new index for your net worth. The article starts out by lamenting how the term “millionaire” has lost meaning with the wide range of net worth. So the team built their own wealth range from -2 to 10 (well 11, if you count the two richest people in the world) on an exponential rating system. The numbers go: The article enumerates this range. With my current wealth, I’m somewhere around a five to six. So…what does your number actually mean? The article doesn’t go into much detail, but I think it enumerates the level of difference between someone like Gates and your average…
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Is Delivery Worth The Price?
Is online shopping worth the cost?
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Do I have the right to be forgotten?
The internet is a sorting tool of information. It allows a quick search of individuals, but can easily distort or manipulate one’s viewpoint. I can feel Big Brother’s ever watchful eye as the vast amount of collectible information about me is synthesized through service providers, search engines and applications. How things are sorted reflects traffic paths. According to online ad network Chitika, the top listing on a Google search result will get 33% of search traffic. So what is popular gets sorted, but what happens if something is popular and you want it erased? Do I have the right to be forgotten? This right to be forgotten started with a…
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Book Review: “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi (2016)
Paul Kalanithi was on his way up in life. He was married, had attended Yale School of Medicine and was nearing the end of his residency at Stanford University as a neurosurgeon. Then, at age 36, he found out he had Stage IV lung cancer. What follows in the book is his examination of his life as he lives with this disease.
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
This list comes from an Australian nurse named Bronnie Ware who recorded the wishes of individuals in palliative care in a piece that was profiled in The Guardian. I heard about this from a TED talk by Jane McGonigal who talked on turning her survival after a concussion into a game. I’ve embedded the video after the list below, but wanted to take a brief moment to reflect on this. I think a lot of happiness is tied into how we perceive ourselves, and not falling under the auspices of how perception is laid upon is. Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “Once you label me you negate me.” Regret is a strong…
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What To Do When You Win The Lottery
The precious lottery. How long have you spent thinking about winning that magical multi-million dollar ticket? I’ll be honest that I’ve taken a ticket out, mostly for the luxury of thinking about what I’d do with the winnings. Buy a house? Sure! Go on vacation? Yes, please. How about doing everything that you want to do? Sounds like FIRE to me. They say you’re more likely to drown in your bathtub or die from the wounds after falling in bed than you are of winning the jackpot lottery, but in the unlikely event you do actually win, I will hand down my hard-sought after advice to you. After you win…
