Living Stingy

Act rationally in an irrational world.

Friday, January 9, 2026

How We Keep Ourselves Down

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The biggest obstacle to success in life is us - and the people willing to help us be that obstacle! I was lurking on Reddit the other day an...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Tortured Sheetmetal - How Style Sells Cars

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  Style sells cars, not functionality.   Always has, always will, because.... Humans. I have been busy working on the camper van and have go...
Monday, December 15, 2025

First To Market Is Last In The Marketplace - Roomba

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iRobot is going bankrupt - and it was inevitable. I wrote before about this phenomenon - how market pioneers end up broke, over time, or at ...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Unilateral Disarmament

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  The "Gerry-Mander" circa 1812 One side can't lay down their weapons and assume the other will as well. Back in the 1960s and...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Language Model

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Does language determine how we think?  I used to think so. I wrote before how language is nothing more than an exchange of symbols - symbols...
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Robert Platt Bell is a Retired Patent Attorney in Jekyll Island, Georgia.
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