1: “I had a friend who carried a thick stack of linen-based cards,” Charlie Munger writes in Poor Charlie’s Almanack.  Before his death at 99 in 2023, Charlie was Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett‘s business partner.

“When somebody would make a comment that reflected self-pity, he would slowly and portentously pull out his huge stack of cards, take the top one, and hand it to … continue reading

1: “One of the most vivid depictions of the frustration and fruitlessness of work is found in Peter Shaffer‘s play Amadeus,” Timothy Keller writes in Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work.

The play features Antonio Salieri, a 19th-century composer with wealth and power. Antonio has written several extremely successful operas and has risen up to become the court composer for the Hapsburg emperor.… continue reading