Dave, you are blessed with a hardworking and intelligent life partner. Great to read your story. I am also blessed with a wonderful wife who has stayed with me in all my failings and dumb moves in life.
I have not seen any recent FR stories about Nassim Taleb. But if you have not heard it yet, the best YouTube/podcast I have heard with Taleb is this one with Daniel Kahneman.
Check it out. Great insight and also a lot of fun and jokes interspersed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMBclvY_EMA
Cheers
“Dave, you are blessed with a hardworking and intelligent life partner. Great to read your story. I am also blessed with a wonderful wife who has stayed with me in all my failings and dumb moves in life.”
Amen! We are heading into 57 years of marriage. She is one of the most intelligent people I have ever met. That has been passed on to our adult children and grand kids. She started working a teenager doing all types of jobs to save money to help her parents put her through nursing school.
We both have different mental and physical skill sets and lot of good overlap. That has meant that between the two of we do great problem solving and followup to handle problems or opportunities.
That means when one of us is uncomfortable with something new or someone new in our life. We often listen to the other saying, “I have problems with this or this person!” The end result is we back away from endorsing the issue or person. That has save us a lot of misery, time and money.
You and I are both fortunate to have good women in our life.
Thanks for the heads up re Nassim Taleb. I have a few younger relatives and some our age, where I’m introducing them to the Intellectual Yet Idiot reality. It is amazing when their brains click with the reality of the IYI concept.
Thanks again and have a great weekend.