Comments on: Daily Links: Fear of the Future Edition

By: Karl Katzke

Karl Katzke — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:03:23 +0000

One term I hear a lot bandied around in the science fiction world but not in the “real world” yet is “future shocked” — which is a state of anxiety or fear about the future and an unwillingness to change to meet it.

An excellent example is a friend of mine who went to school to be a graphic designer. She loves print graphic design, but has problems finding work. She can get plenty of web design work, but she absolutely hates it and refuses to learn or polish her skills in that form of design. Her future shock — or more precisely, the feeling that her education should entitle her to a fulfilling career in print graphic design — has blinded her to the changes in the world around her.

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By: Chett

Chett — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:53:51 +0000

JD,

Your creativity and new found burst of energy is evident in your recent posts and the response from readers. Somehow you rediscovered why you love what you do and are experiencing the *flow* that others were talking about a few weeks ago. Good luck on the book, we appreciate your work here.

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By: AD

AD — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:49:16 +0000

Thanks for the link on fear. Everything that I’m proudest of was only accomplished after overcoming fear. Luckily I’m a stubborn girl, and I force myself to do the things I’m afraid to do.

In the end I always wonder why I was ever fearful in the first place.

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By: zencontrol.net

zencontrol.net — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:56:08 +0000

hmmmm all the best for you book project… any tentative date of launch?? Will it be a proper paper format book or ebook…. lot of questions… but have been off internet for few weeks , so have lost touch with my fav blogs..

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By: David Wright

David Wright — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:00:16 +0000

Thanks for the mention. This is one of my favorite blogs, though I’ve been a silent reader, so it was a shock when I saw you mention something I wrote.

Thank you for all the great advice you provide here.

By the way, there are two other blogs who scraped your content for this post (which showed up in my pingbacks). Email me if you’d like me to send you links to the scraped posts, I don’t want to give them credit here.

Thanks again for the link. Glad you like the post.

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By: RB @ Financial Samurai

RB @ Financial Samurai — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:31:18 +0000

Hey JD – What’s so fearful of the future? Things seem pretty bright to me with your book, and your staff writers and all! And also, let us not forget our collective optimism to propel the market higher!

I think your book will do great!

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By: nickel

nickel — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:09:44 +0000

I’m surprised you’re not using Evernote. I also highly recommend SnapTell for your inner bibliophile, and JotNot because it’s super cool.

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By: Sassy

Sassy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:59:53 +0000

What an interesting link to the radio segment.

I think “socialised” medicine is the way to go for America.

There are drawbacks in every system, but I totally agree with T R Reid’s statement that American Health Care is seen as the joke of the world.

If you are rich, you live, if you are poor, you die. How is that compatible with the writing on the Statue of Liberty?

One of my parents friends, who lives in America, got cancer and ended up with a ridiculous bill for something like $100,000-.

My mother got cancer, twice, and the bill was nothing.

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By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:25:19 +0000

I read T.R. Reid’s statement about the VA. Socialized medicine is not a good thing, ask a veteran who has gone to the VA hospital. My husband always says “you get what you pay for”. It is over worked. There are too many patient’s and not enough health care workers. How would you like to go in with kidney stones, and have them tell you that you are having muscle spasms? So you end up having to spend your own money to go to another ER so they can give you an x-ray and tell you that you do indeed have kidney stones. Veteran’s don’t go to the VA because the health care is so good. They go because they can’t afford it otherwise. If you haven’t actually had to use a socialized medical plan you may never understand that it doesn’t provide the best source of health care. Why do you think the government regulates monopolies, because it stifles competition and causes poor quality and high prices.

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By: Carl Richards

Carl Richards — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:24:59 +0000

J.D.-

Thanks for staying on top of all this for us!

The Big Picture article on the absurdity of “mean variance” is SUPER important to understand. Mean variance is the foundation of SO much of what is done in investment and financial planning world that the implications of it being a faulty “map” are huge.

Thanks again!

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By: E

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:05:12 +0000

JD I love you. Rare are the folks who are as politics-averse as I am. I appreciate the degree to which you keep politics out of your blog, while also managing not to ignore the issues completely. You Rock!

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By: J.D.

J.D. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:45:19 +0000

Hey, Corey. How about we do NaPFMo — nationa personal-finance book writing month? I suspect I’ll be deep in the project by then.

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By: corey

corey — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:33:20 +0000

FEAR! Every November I do National Novel Writing Month (50k words in 30 days!). I had always feared writing, that internal editor would shut me down. NaNoWriMo helped me overcome that and release my creativity.

Chris Baty, who conceived NaNo, has a side thing where he tries to get participants to tackle other big scary challenges–like base jumping or learning farsi. I have yet to do that. Am I a little too scared?

November 1 is coming…who is in?

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