Jim Leff's Slog

I bought a slew of Apple shares in Fall 2020 at $105 - $115. Once its price ($160 as I write this) plateaus, I'll sell (for a >45% ga...

Selfish people feel overly generous. Generous people feel overly selfish. [ from here ] A public radio show some years ago did an episod...

Thesis: The world you ignore is your personal cache of delight and surprise. Corollary: The more starved you become for delight and surpri...

In 2021, my health insurance (Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield/Blue Man Group/Kinda Blue) started denying my claims, including procedures they’...

Great segment on Curb Your Enthusiasm this week where Leon admits he refuses to eat watermelon in public due to the cliché. It rang home ...

An acquaintance named Rob, a very good and unassuming guy and a talented writer, has serious cancer way too young. He's an army vet with...

Selfish people feel overly generous. Generous people feel overly selfish. People in Dubai understand air conditioning to a level we can...

"It's not that circus horses dance particularly well, it's that they can dance at all".    ~ Famous old quip that's s...

Two irreconcilable truths: 1. All startup companies launch facing near-impossible odds. and... 2. Companies are deemed failures when t...

I just realized why so many older people are poorly dressed. It's because they're Crew , not Talent . "Talent" represen...