Scott Adams was a real one to the very end. Salute to a good man. Some banger quotes: - If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts. - I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees. -

From 100% Cash to 100% Stocks: Total Returns, Volatility and Drawdowns going back to 1928...

There will be another drawdown in 2026. Just like there was in every year before it. But downside volatility isn’t the enemy of high returns – it’s the reason they exist.

How often S&P 500 drawdowns occurred in a given year since 1928: -5%: 94% of all years -10%: 63% of all years -20%: 26% of all years -30%: 10% of all years -40%: 6% of all years -50%: 2% of all years awealthofcommonsense.com/2026/01/the-pr…

Here's how the Japanese restore inner drive in 72 hours: // Thread //

Since the start of 2025: S&P 500 +19.5% European stocks +45.3% Emerging markets +50.8% Asian stocks +55.9%

Wild market. We haven't seen anything like this since the dotcom bubble burst. Over the last 8 sessions, 115 stocks in the S&P 500 have decline 7% or more in a single day. The average drawdown when that happens is 34%. Right now we're 1.5% below the all-time high.

🚨 I just learned about a concept, I can't stop thinking about. The Four Burner Theory. It destroyed Elon Musk's first marriage. It explains why Bezos is jacked but divorced. And why Zuckerberg has no real friends. Once you understand it, your life will never be same:🧵

“Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.” — Carl Icahn

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

If you don’t write a goal down, it’s not a goal - it’s a wish. Clarity creates accountability. Accountability drives action. Action, repeated daily, is what leads to results.

Take it from me, a recent empty nester: The Good Old Days don’t feel like it at the time. It feels more like hard work and struggle. The days are long but the years fly by. Then, one day you wake up and the house is quiet. One of my most cherished memories is coming home from

House prices in Toronto were down another 0.6% in March. Now down 26% from peak, round-tripped 5 years of gains and just 10% above the 2017 peak

Ontario is WAY BEHIND other areas around the Great Lakes. Average Annual Real GDP per Capita Growth:

The University of Michigan has been conducting a consumer confidence survey for 74 years (starting in 1952). The lowest reading in this history is the number out today for April 2026 at 47.6. The commentary from the University of Michigan attributes it solely to the war, since

Your fears are just bad predictions—stop treating them as facts.

So, so very true Palmer Luckey! The valley burned. Billions on junk with 0% money that set the US backwards by nearly a decade.

I’m in love with this sentence: “The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.”

If I win the lottery, I won’t tell anyone, but there will be signs.. 😉

Discipline is not about ignoring your emotions. It’s about outsmarting them.