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Tips on Kauai
Here are my notes from trips in Jan 2023 and Nov 2022 Activities: Dining (in my order of preference): While staying north Dining (in my order of preference): We’ve had bad luck on the North side so we drove south a few times for better food.
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Kaua’i (Kauai, Hawaii) is a special place. Travel tips on why to go and what to do
Kaua’i has a lot of beaches and decent fish* but to justify the long flight you have to appreciate its strengths: unrivaled natural beauty and great surf. It’s not a cheap trip, nor easy to plan, so here are my suggestions on how to do it right. Unbiased, uncompensated. To get ample time to hike,…
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Gas Exports (LNG) are more environmentally harmful than Coal, largely because poor regulation.
Gas Exports Have a Dirty Secret: A Carbon Footprint Rivaling Coal’s https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/gas-exports-have-dirty-secret-a-carbon-footprint-rivaling-coal-s Without appropriate regulation, the production of LNG (a process necessary to export gas) is more environmentally harmful than coal. This begs 3 questions:1. is this how the U.S. should lead?2. Is it in Americans’ interest to export our natural resources or should we instead preserve…
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Peter Attia, M.D. — Fasting, Metformin, Athletic Performance, and Life Extension on Tim Ferriss Show(#398)
https://tim.blog/2019/12/07/peter-attia-transcript/ A great listen for an old guy like me. Centenarian Olympics is a concept that I have been training for for about 6 years now. Also, I’ve been good about sleep and exercising recently. Combined with fasting, it’s “more powerful than all drugs combined.” Looks like I have a new winter project. I sure…
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Data is everywhere but CRE. Why?
Why is there not more emphasis on quantitative measurement of a company’s human capital and how its CRE drives economic profit? For most firms, they are the 1st and 3rd largest cost categories respectively.
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U.S. Unemployment Varies Significantly Based on Income Levels — Seeking Alpha
When you get granular, it’s a wonder office real estate has been beset by such challenges. As reported by Seeking Alpha, U.S. Unemployment Varies Significantly Based on Income Levels. The top three income deciles, representing those with household incomes in excess of $75k, have an unemployment rate of 4.07% (vs 9.7% in January overall) and…
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Olympics in Chicago
As we are days away from the decision for the 2016 Olympics, it’s time to handicap the game. From the moment it was announced, I tried to play the southside real estate market. Fortunately, I wasn’t too successful – limiting my interest to one property (greater economic headwinds have limited the payoff). Any new capital…
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Park City Condo & Hotel Pricing
It snowed three out of four days. Kurt’s place is Arrowleaf right on Silver Buck / Silver Strike Express lift is awesome. Centennial is the best run (great trees). On-mountain condo pricing: about $1100 / sq. ft. for 2-year old Arrowleaf product; St Regis is trying to get $2k for their new condos but not…
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Sometimes, it takes fighting words.
I just heard on World News Tonight that Iraq has consented to arms inspection talks…with no pretenses. This, only one week after Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ threat.
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