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My early brush with a genuine bubble caused me to formulate some guiding principles that carried me through the next 50-odd years:
**It’s not what you buy, it’s what you pay that counts.**
**Good investing doesn’t come from buying good things, but from buying things well.**
**There’s no asset so good that it can’t become overpriced and thus dangerous, and there are few assets so bad that they can’t get cheap enough to be a bargain.**
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Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contribute to a knowledge commons in order to be able to succeed in case of [infrastructure collapse](https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html/collapse.html). The practice of engaging with the discarded with an eye to transforming what is exhausted and wasted into renewed resources.
A Holistic Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired From Permaculture.
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A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” to (a portion of) my life and work is that of: How many hours / weeks / months a year am I spending with people who truly inspire and delight and generate a mutually positive bump in ye old “good vibes” or excitement about life itself? How many symbiotic creative “partnerships” am I entering into? And am I at least maintaining / increasing that number of connections in meaningful ways as time passes?
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