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The average return of the U.S. stock market has been 8.4% per year over the past 151 years (1871 to 2022); note that this is the “simple” average across all years (also known as the “arithmetic” average)

U.S. Stock Market Returns - A History From the 1870s to 2022 | the Measure of a Plan

themeasureofaplan.com

It would be entirely fair to call LoveFrom’s obsessive approach to its serif as ouroboric—a process that goes so deeply into itself that it will always create its own new problem. As Ive holds up the initials SJ set into monumental bronze, he teases how much more complicated the serif becomes when considering its existence in the 3D world.

After Apple, Jony Ive’s LoveFrom Is Doubling Down on Craft in Typeface

fastcompany.com

Rather than search for the perfect media source, right at the intersection of accuracy and neutrality, assume that every company, every journalist, every podcaster, every talking head is flawed—because they are, because they’re all human—and diversify your media portfolio. Try to get a sprinkling from across the spectrum. Think of the various voices as the biased lawyers in the courtroom of your mind. Watching their ideas clash will help you, the juror, get closer to the truth.

What's Our Problem?

Tim Urban

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