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Bureaucracies of gifted children
The beauty about being retarded, as it turns out, is that you’ve learned grit, which is something that seems nearly impossible for the gifted to learn.
Sep 2
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Gil Gildner
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August 2025
What does money represent?
The smallest unit of wealth represents the smallest unit of work, which is ultimately the extraction of value from the earth.
Aug 25
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Gil Gildner
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The actual cost of hiring a financial advisor
You’re going to end up paying them 30-40% of your wealth over a 30 year period.
Aug 15
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Gil Gildner
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Pricing the Housing Market in 2025
I don't think interest rates have as much to do with housing prices as housing velocity. The real answer is always supply & demand.
Aug 7
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Gil Gildner
2
July 2025
How I sold 13,468 books by going the self-publishing route
The traditional book publishing industry is populated with dinosaurs.
Jul 31
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Gil Gildner
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If you ran a company like a democracy, it would be bankrupt within the year.
If you ran Walmart like a democracy, every worker in each of the 10,784 stores would vote the company into a benefits-fueled hole. We don't run…
Jul 24
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Gil Gildner
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Averages & medians don't really tell you what you need to know
Perhaps you’ve seen the statistic: 50% of marriages end in divorce.
Jul 18
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Gil Gildner
May 2024
Being in Liberia during Ebola made me distrust the media
I don't trust anything you see in the media — anything. And I have real reason behind this.
May 20, 2024
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Gil Gildner
November 2022
Why the SMMA model is fundamentally broken
This year, I have gotten more messages about one specific subject than anything else by far.
Nov 19, 2022
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Gil Gildner
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January 2022
Scurvy (and, the power of doing over understanding)
Last year, I sent a newsletter (almost) every week.
Jan 23, 2022
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Gil Gildner
September 2021
Human stupidity: the ADE 651 bomb detection device
This week I’d like to talk about the ADE 651 bomb detection device.
Sep 11, 2021
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Gil Gildner
July 2021
Silver
If you're like me, when you're researching things online, you'll often realize that you've just ingested extremely biased information.
Jul 16, 2021
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Gil Gildner
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