Richard Dooling

Kindle countdown deal, 99 cents for a week or so.
Also a Kindle+ (Kindle Unlimited) title.

The Binance heist worries me, but not because I trust bitcoin.

Munger in 2018: “It’s like somebody else is trading turds and you decide you can’t be left out.” Tulip bulbs. Beanie Babies.

What scares me: a world where thieves can steal $6 billion in twenty minutes. But don't worry. We know who did it. North Korea.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

--- Miss Manners (1978)

"And the voices wailed. Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone."

I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opi…

Bret Stephens with more good reasons to write your own words. I argued in the WSJ that Orwell felt the same long ago.
wsj.com/opinion/ai-and…

You see the world your way, a different way than the other 8 billion people on earth, so the last thing you want to do is reach for somebody else’s words. @StephenKing hates thesauruses for the same reason. Instead of looking for the right word inside where the story is happening, you go looking in a thesaurus.