Majicman Notes

Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is… Read more

There’s something fractal about rest: we need it daily, weekly and yearly. If you can bear the cumulative expense and the travel time, frequent short breaks beat the occasional elongated vacation. Reason one: holiday memories… Read more

And I’ll never forget when I asked for grand ma’s tomato sauce recipe and she said, “I’ll give you the recipe, but I’ll tell you one thing right now. It’s never going to be any… Read more

We’re all so busy doing our work that sometimes we fail to build a skill worth owning. If you invest 100 hours in a rare skill, you’re likely to acquire it. If you could learn… Read more

Almost immediately after France fell to the Nazis in 1940, the Allies planned a cross-Channel assault on the German occupying forces. At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt reaffirmed the… Read more

“At every increment of improvement in human history somebody got pissed off and said, ‘This can be better, this must be better’. To be a optimist has to mean being a critic. The enemy of… Read more

If I go downstairs to investigate a noise at night, with a gun in my hand, and find myself face to face with a burglar who has a gun in his hand, there is a… Read more

Trust requires an intelligent judgement of trustworthiness. So those who want others’ trust have to do two things. First, they have to be trustworthy, which requires competence, honesty and reliability. Second, they have to provide… Read more

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. William Faulkner https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/faulkner/biographical/ Read more

To the uninitiated, poker is a game involving three elements: luck, calculation and deception. But professional poker players have told me that a fourth element just as important: controlling your emotions, or more often, failing… Read more