At age 70 I retired from a stressful, time-pressure, life and death decisions type of career. I had to take time off for 2 months during the covid days and after a few weeks of great sleep and enjoyment of life I suddenly realized I hadn’t felt this relaxed since the day I began my career in 1975. I had just accepted high baseline stress as normal. This awakening led me to retire within a year instead of at age 75. The good thing to come out of covid!
I chuckle a bit when I hear ‘Medicare for all’. I’m on Medicare and the premiums, deductibles and bills still add up to a sizable chunk of money. I think a lot of folks have the misconception that it’s ‘free care’. Also, as far as incentives, if all docs had to accept Medicare rates, we’d see the brightest tier of college students opting for engineering or business degrees, leaving us with the lower tiers as physicians. Nobody wants to spend 8 years of training, steep loans and little income during training to make blue collar wages. By 8 years I mean 4 in med school and 4 in residency training. It’s a very long haul. I have young doctors friends starting their career $400k in debt.
I guess it depends, no? Some of the examples previously given on this forum suggest that in an effort to grow or diversify, some companies get out of their lane or moat and diversify into things they fail at.
Perhaps I’m an idiot, but over a certain number of years, my initial stock shares will double, depending on the size of dividends reinvested. Even if the stock price over time doesn’t rise, don’t I now have double the shares for the original money invested? It seems like a nice proposition.
I don’t ask what the server likes best, as I don’t care so much what they prefer, but I’ll often say ‘I’m trying to decide between A,B or C’ which in some cases will provoke some interesting insights about how they are prepared.
This reminds me of a great short article about road rage I used to read to my teen children. The advice boiled down to the idea that you can engage with or retaliate against aggressive drivers or simply pull over and “let them have their accident somewhere else/with someone else”
I thought it was great advice, applicable to so many other areas of human interaction.
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Excellent article! I struggle with the exact items you outline.
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I agree! I’ve never understood the point of up/down voting.
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At age 70 I retired from a stressful, time-pressure, life and death decisions type of career. I had to take time off for 2 months during the covid days and after a few weeks of great sleep and enjoyment of life I suddenly realized I hadn’t felt this relaxed since the day I began my career in 1975. I had just accepted high baseline stress as normal. This awakening led me to retire within a year instead of at age 75. The good thing to come out of covid!
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I chuckle a bit when I hear ‘Medicare for all’. I’m on Medicare and the premiums, deductibles and bills still add up to a sizable chunk of money. I think a lot of folks have the misconception that it’s ‘free care’. Also, as far as incentives, if all docs had to accept Medicare rates, we’d see the brightest tier of college students opting for engineering or business degrees, leaving us with the lower tiers as physicians. Nobody wants to spend 8 years of training, steep loans and little income during training to make blue collar wages. By 8 years I mean 4 in med school and 4 in residency training. It’s a very long haul. I have young doctors friends starting their career $400k in debt.
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I guess it depends, no? Some of the examples previously given on this forum suggest that in an effort to grow or diversify, some companies get out of their lane or moat and diversify into things they fail at.
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Perhaps I’m an idiot, but over a certain number of years, my initial stock shares will double, depending on the size of dividends reinvested. Even if the stock price over time doesn’t rise, don’t I now have double the shares for the original money invested? It seems like a nice proposition.
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What are the 7 criteria?
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I don’t ask what the server likes best, as I don’t care so much what they prefer, but I’ll often say ‘I’m trying to decide between A,B or C’ which in some cases will provoke some interesting insights about how they are prepared.
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Well, there’s speech and then there’s ugly defamatory speech, which was the case in the suit you are referencing.
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This reminds me of a great short article about road rage I used to read to my teen children. The advice boiled down to the idea that you can engage with or retaliate against aggressive drivers or simply pull over and “let them have their accident somewhere else/with someone else” I thought it was great advice, applicable to so many other areas of human interaction.
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