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Write for Your Life
Lawrence Block
The Great Central Valley is drained by two principal rivers, one flowing south and the other north. They meet in the valley and discharge themselves together into San Francisco Bay. The north-flowing river is the San Joaquin. The south-flowing river is the Sacramento, with its tributary the Feather River, which is dammed to reserve the snowmelt of the Sierra Nevada, not only to flood the rice fields and irrigate the other crops of the valley but also to travel six hundred miles in a life-support tube that is taped to the nose of Los Angeles. Rivers with common deltas are rare in the world. It would be difficult to name more pairs of them than the Kennebec and the Androscoggin, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, the Tigris and the Euphrates, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin.
Assembling California
John McPhee
One recipe for happiness is selective inattention and lethargy. The pain of a dollar lost is greater than the joy of a dollar gained, so the more you watch prices bounce around, the glummer you’ll be. Spend more time gathering information that bears on your investment’s value, rather than tracking the price. If news won’t matter in a year, skip it. Sometimes you will miss a real turning point. My permanent resolution is to read more books, annual reports, and publications like the Economist and to reduce emails and social media. It’s said that a good marriage begins with eyes wide open but continues with almost willful blindness to small flaws; the same applies to stocks. Why rush decisions? You might know more tomorrow.
Big Money Thinks Small
Joel Tillinghast
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