My interviews with Howard Marks, Chairman of Oaktree Capital, and famed for his “Chairman’s Memos,” were instructive.1 The first time he mentioned his good fortune, I pushed back, asking, “What about intelligence, hard work, and perseverance?” His answer: “Everybody in my MBA class at the University of Chicago was very smart and very hard working. […]
Using naltrexone to cut back on drinking isn’t new, says Sarah Wakeman, a senior medical director for substance use disorder at Mass General Brigham. The approach dates back to the 1980s with the Sinclair method, which pairs drinking with naltrexone to blunt alcohol’s pleasurable effects. In parts of Europe, Wakeman adds, people have long used […]
More food for thought (but only if you can read and think): In a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read “without complaint” as an undergraduate a […]
Abstract from the study Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health – Science 4 Jun 2026 Vol 392, Issue 6802 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec7671 How does remote work affect isolation and mental health? We drew on five nationally representative surveys of American workers (N = 588,322) conducted from 2011 to 2024, omitting the peak pandemic years of […]
Michael Girdley on private equity: The lesson is pretty straightforward. You’re going to go buy a business, and you’re going to look and say, “Where can I cut costs? How can I start to optimize and streamline this?” You can cut fat, but you definitely don’t want to cut muscle, and you don’t want to […]
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Blogs are supposed to have pictures? Did you get any of the bad weather? It’s headed toward us now. Are lentils as good for you as beans?
Ever since the Pioneer Woman rose to fame most if not all food blogger post step by step pictures of their creations. All I want to do is have a handy place to keep my recipes and some fun while doing it. Lentils are a type of bean/legume and yes, they are quite healthy. The only bad weather we got was a lot of rain and high winds. Today is cold so it’s a soup night!
Is the Pioneer Woman an actual blog? Kind of like a comic book? We are under a severe weather advisory. My greatest worry is that it encroaches on my walking time. If I go on the treadmill I don’t get the same number of steps counted. I am very compulsive about my workout log.
Real life blogger who now is quite famous. https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/ Stay safe. I didn’t realize the extent of the tornado activity until I watched the evening news.
It’s all happening right now. Pretty scary. Fingers crossed we come through unscathed.