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[Editor’s note: This letter was written by our Sovereign Woman—Viktorija.] Just like Simon, I’m probably one of the world’s worst tourists. When I travel somewhere, I prefer to experience real life in the country or city that I’m visiting. So my schedule is usually full of meetings and networking with
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Mark Zuckerberg predicts civil unrest in November File this one away under “No sh*t,
After having visited 120+ countries on all seven continents, and dozens of states across the US, it’s a pretty rare event these days that I travel somewhere I’ve never been before. I’m pretty weak in the South Pacific—I’ve never been to Tahiti or Bora Bora… nor central Africa, like the
British Petroleum announced this week that ALL 6,500 employees in its London office will be working from home within the next two years. BP is even going to shut down the office entirely and sell the building. They’re not the only ones. Right now, in fact, only 13% of London
It was a damp evening in the early 1560s when Walter Kapell was marched through a silent crowd in the town square. He had just been convicted of heresy by the Inquisition, and he would only have a few more minutes to live. Kapell was a wealthy man and beloved
The old joke about the 1990s TV show Seinfeld was that it was a show about nothing. Now it looks like Germany wants to be an economy about nothing. German University paying scholarships to do nothing A German university is looking for people it can pay to do nothing. Literally.
[Editor’s note: This letter was written by our Sovereign Woman—Viktorija.] I grew up in a small village in Lithuania, raised by a single mother. So you can probably imagine my childhood was not one of wealth and luxury. Just like when Simon was growing up, money was always tight and
When the captain came on the announcement system yesterday morning to introduce himself to passengers, the first thing he said was, “Ladies and gentlemen, a lot of us have been cooped up and under tremendous stress for the past several months. So the most important thing we can do right
In 221 BC, the 38-year emperor Qin Shi Huang declared total victory against all of his rivals in northern China. Qin’s ancestors had literally spent centuries invading neighboring states and engaging in complex diplomacy in order to unify China into a single empire. And Qin Shi Huang was the first
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Teachers call Child Services when kids miss online class Teachers are serving as the
When Charlie Chaplin first arrived to Los Angeles in December 1913, the city was still a fairly small oil town… just a fraction of the size of San Francisco. LA was so underdeveloped that, as Chaplin wrote in his autobiography, wild coyotes frequently roamed around Hollywood and Beverly Hills. But
CNN almost makes it sound like a James Bond movie. It’s like there’s a tuxedo-clad billionaire straightening his bowtie while boarding his private jet and flying off to his private island… where scantily clad women await him with champagne and caviar. This is the image that CNN conjures when they
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