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Seeing Life Through the Lens of Supply and Demand

By Tim McCarthy

August 4, 2026

In business, all I own is a hammer, so everything looks like a nail. That hammer is supply and demand. I measure it for every product or service I invest...

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Truly Funny | Lost in Translation: Toddler Edition

By Tim McCarthy

August 4, 2026

Truly Funny : Reminder to all parents to write down words your toddler gets a little wrong! On our annual family vacation this past week, our 18 month old, Isla,...

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See the Changes

By Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

August 3, 2026

by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young Editor’s note: I learned this song recently to celebrate our son, Kevin’s, life changes. Favorite lyric: “She has seen me changing. It ain’t easy...

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Self-Renewal

By John W. Gardner

August 3, 2026

Editor’s Note: This book, written in the mid-1960s, profoundly provides a construct for what is going on sixty years later. Gardner’s theme revolves around the need for self-renewal individually and...

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A Little Grace Goes a Long Way

By Charles Glassman, "The Brain Drain"

August 3, 2026

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What to Make of a Life

By Jim Collins

June 26, 2026

Editor’s note: In addition to encoding, described in this month’s blog, Collins’ research found key phases of lives well lived: “cliff moments” (life-altering events), “fog” (navigating periods of confusion, often...

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You Were On My Mind

By We Five

June 26, 2026

by We Five Editor’s Note: My sister, Mary, is my guiding light for resilience. In my mid-teens, she lived and worked in Washington, DC, and my parents let me visit...

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Happiness Comes Sideways

By Jim Collins, What to Make of a Life

June 26, 2026

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What Is Your Encoding?

By Tim McCarthy

June 26, 2026

“As you discover something you are encoded for and you love doing it, then you can’t help but want to do it more, which means you can’t help but get...

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Truly Funny | Houston, We Have a Sandwich

By Tim McCarthy

June 26, 2026

Truly Funny : Of the many short videos I have of our grandchildren, one is of our Stella, dressed in a space suit, helmet on, when she was three or...

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Life is Good

By Livingston Taylor

June 1, 2026

by Livingston Taylor Editor’s Note: I had coffee this week with a fellow searcher, Marianne Gaydos, and she reminded me of this upbeat, and very true song. It came up...

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Theo of Golden

By Allen Levi

June 1, 2026

Editor’s note: Beautifully written, this fable of an 87-year-old man spending a year in a town in Georgia (feels like Savannah) pulled at my heart and faith strings. The most...

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What Does Wealth Mean?

By Garth Brooks

June 1, 2026

“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy”. - Garth Brooks

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Are You an Investor or a Sucker?

By Tim McCarthy

June 1, 2026

PT Barnum famously said, “there is a sucker born every minute”. If he were still around, he would love the new investment “products” that have become multi-billion-dollar business categories since...

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Truly Funny | Kid Tough

By Tim McCarthy

June 1, 2026

Truly Funny : We no longer wonder who our daughter’s 15-month-old girl, Isla Maeve, will be like when she grows up. Recently she was sitting on the grass at the...

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Truly Funny | Cat Tales

By Tim McCarthy

May 4, 2026

My Uncle John was a prominent physician in Lakewood, Ohio, practicing from the 1930s through the 1970s. His wife Ruth was a sociable woman who loved entertaining. One afternoon, she...

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Capitalism for All

By John Hoyt Bryant

May 4, 2026

Editor’s Note: Like my quote of the month, this book leans a bit too left for me and yet, for the same reason it resonates. Our society is currently strained...

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In an Age of Hyperconnectivity

By Gordon LaForge

May 4, 2026

Editor’s note: A little liberal for my moderate tastes but our society will do better once we realize that the old “world order” is not coming back. “In an age...

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The Politics of the Rare

By Tim McCarthy

May 4, 2026

This morning I sat in a training room preparing for my tenth year as a precinct election official — my fifteenth election day, give or take. Somewhere between the review...

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Is There a Message in Your Struggle?

By Tim McCarthy

April 7, 2026

Every Sunday morning I settle in with a cup of coffee and read Dr. Mardy Groethe — a writer who has a gift for finding the quote that names what...

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Where There is No Struggle

By Dr Mardy Groethe

April 6, 2026

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. But when the struggle becomes overwhelming, strength also means knowing when to get help.”

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Seeing Life Through the Lens of Supply and Demand

Truly Funny | Lost in Translation: Toddler Edition

See the Changes

Self-Renewal

A Little Grace Goes a Long Way

What to Make of a Life

You Were On My Mind

Happiness Comes Sideways

What Is Your Encoding?

Truly Funny | Houston, We Have a Sandwich

Life is Good

Theo of Golden

What Does Wealth Mean?

Are You an Investor or a Sucker?

Truly Funny | Kid Tough

Truly Funny | Cat Tales

Capitalism for All

In an Age of Hyperconnectivity

The Politics of the Rare

Is There a Message in Your Struggle?

Where There is No Struggle