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https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/12/08/the-meaning-of-the-words-of-the-year?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/themeaningofthewordsoftheyearjohnson

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“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart

The IP man. Beijing announced new punishments for intellectual property theft, days after President Xi Jinping and President Trump negotiated a ‘ceasefire' to the U.S.-China trade war. As part of that agreement, Xi vowed to resolve Washington's "reasonable concerns" about IP theft by Chinese...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/07/listen-to-the-soothing-sounds-of-martian-wind-collected-by-nasas-insight-lander/

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Palm Beach has become a destination for young interior designers Palm Beach, Florida, a tiny island long heralded as a bastion of both the luxurious and the sophisticated, has become a recent hot spot for young interior designers. With the Kips Bay Designer Show House opening up a satellite...

California officially becomes first state to require solar panels on new homes California became the first state in the nation to require homes built in 2020 and later be solar-powered, following a vote by the Building Standards Commission. The unanimous action Wednesday finalized a previous...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/books/review/colm-toibin-mad-bad-dangerous-to-know.html

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"Our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius

“Enthusiasm moves the world.” - Arthur Balfour

Modeler: Insured losses from Camp Wildfire in California at $6B to $9B Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that industry insured losses from the Camp Fire in Northern California will be between $6 billion and $9 billion. Taken together with the Woolsey fire in Southern California...

Crypto Cruise This week's must-read is Laurie Penny's account of a blockchain-focused Mediterranean cruise, replete with John McAfee and squadrons of young, Eastern European women who maybe aren't part of the cryptocurrency world as such. It's both an entertaining and depressing piece of gonzo...

Huawei Capitulation Huawei has reportedly agreed to make improvements to its telecommunications equipment and software, to address security fears that were expressed by British intelligence agencies. Without doing so, Huawei would essentially be shut out of future 5G network buildouts in the...

Sears Bid Sears chair and former CEO Eddie Lampert has, via his ESL Investments hedge fund, bid $4.6 billion to buy around 500 Sears and Kmart stores from the bankrupt operation. The bid is also for the Diehard battery brand and Kenmore appliance brand. ESL says it would save 50,000 jobs. CNN