Majicman Notes

Do not love half lovers Do not entertain half friends  Do not indulge in works of the half talented Do not live half a life and do not die a half death If you choose silence, then be silent… Read more

The satisfaction of raising someone’s skiing game in a short space of time is profound, and the riddle of unlocking their potential, as in any form of teaching, is a key part of the challenge.… Read more

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one.  The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable,… Read more

Hypocrisy is often described as “saying one thing and doing another”. But actually it is about more than mere inconsistency; failing to “practise what you preach” gets closer to it. A drug addict who warns… Read more

Since I began to live with myself, and to pay attention to the price of time, to the brevity of life, to the uselessness of the things one spends one’s time with in the world,… Read more

Wedgwood was a defining figure of his age in a similar way, perhaps, to Steve Jobs in the 21st century digital era. It’s true that both men had in common interdisciplinary thinking, aesthetic control, production… Read more

In times of political turmoil, events can move from impossible to inevitable without even passing through improbable.         Anatole Kaletsky https://research.gavekal.com/author/anatole-kaletsky/ Read more

The fact is, I did not appreciate until much later in my own life what subterfuge and sacrifice it took to be independent and undefeated by the pressures of reality. Nail Williams, This is Happiness Read more

Graham Allison, at the time was writing a book, Destined for War, which considered whether what he called the Thucydides Trap – a tendency for war to become inevitable when an emerging power threatens the… Read more

What is the source of the greenback’s enduring attraction? In a nutshell: It’s the extraordinary liquidity of the dollar money market, according to a new paper by Antonio Coppola, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Chenzi Xu of… Read more