Pooping on the Moon

"You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you, that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass." - Warren Buffett

Pooping on the Moon is a Messy Business: At the dawn of the Space Age, American crews literally just taped a bag on their butts when they had to go, a system that infamously resulted in escaped turds floating through the Apollo 10 command module, and astronaut Frank Borman’s decision to simply not poop for more than a week on Gemini 7 to avoid the attendant indignities.

https://www.wired.com/story/pooping-on-the-moon-is-a-messy-business

Lord Ganesh is Drinking Milk: 21 September 1995: The day of loud and persistent knocks at the entrance of a small temple in Delhi sliced through the calm of deep night. The clatter stirred Radha Krishna Bharadwaj awake. A pious devotee was at the gate. “Wake up, Panditji,” he said to Bharadwaj, the temple priest. “Lord Ganesh is drinking milk. Please open the gates.” The men approached the sanctum sanctorum. The priest spooned out some milk from a bowl and raised it to the idol’s mouth at an angle. Within seconds, it was sucked clean.

https://fiftytwo.in/story/milk/

Experts vs Imitators: Think of all the money managers who borrow their talking points from Warren Buffett. They might sound like Buffett, but they don’t know how to invest the way Buffett does. They’re imitators. Charlie Munger once commented: “It’s very hard to tell the difference between a good money manager and someone who just has the patter down.” How do you tell the difference between an expert and an imitator?

https://fs.blog/experts-vs-imitators/

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