Earnings This Week -- April 28, 2024

Locator: 47092INV.

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Sunday night, pre-market:

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Whatever

Thomas Friedman, wiki. 

• criticized for both weak writing style and a gravitation towards voguish positions
• has won three Pulitzer prizes

Okay.

Something has changed. Either YouTube or my "account." Regardless, it's like 1000% better and it seemed to have happened overnight. I have no idea what happened. Can't explain it. All I know, I used to love YouTube. Now, I really, really love YouTube. Amazing.

That's in the background. In the foreground, an opened book. When it came out in 2005, it was a bestseller, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, Thomas L. Friedman.

Holy mackerel it's a great book. I picked up a hardback edition in pristine condition for $3.00 while visiting Portland last week.

It's a great companion book to Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller. 

In 2005 I was two years from retiring from the United States Air Force, and was soon to leave some wonderful, wonderful people behind and I was incredibly depressed. Not as depressed as I was in 1993, but it was severe. 

In 2005 I was reading voraciously but I had no interest in reading books like The World Is Flat. I'm glad I didn't. I would not have appreciated it in 2005, not as much as I appreciate it now.

Friedman was born in 1953; I was born in 1951. We are exact contemporaries. We have experienced the very same events, beginning with the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989. Netscape went public in 1995. 

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