I was disappointed to find that Robert Scoble — whose opinion I’ve relied on for years — is a harassing, assaulting scumbag.

But what the shit is this?

The conventional wisdom really is becoming that anyone you meet anywhere in real life should be unapproachable. I’m not just making this up. In what kind of world is having an affair sexual harassment? Who is harassing whom? Are they both harassing each other? What if neither one of them is male? And how did the logic develop?

By this measure, my partner and I, who are both in the same industry, are harassing one another every day.

Humans suck.

Buy and hold is for chumps.

Yet, it is better than what most people do which is the exact opposite of the wise thing to do.

But I’m not a chump, so it’s not for me. Buy and hold is what you do when anything else you could do would be dumber than that.

Fortunately, I have other options.

I’m not feeling particularly humble today. But I’ve been busy planning my moves for the crisis that is inevitably approaching.

Anyone that is 100% invested in the market now is totally crazypants. Well, the average person shouldn’t change anything because they invariably make terrible decisions. Buy, hold, and pray is about all you have.

But I’m going to tell ya’ll what I am going to do, and then I’m going to do it.

When the market craters — which it will inevitably — I’m gonna make a load of money.

I’m a capitalist in this respect because I have to be to avoid having a bad life.

If you want to see exactly what files your Mac is monkeying with at any given moment for a given process, open a terminal and do this:

sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys mdworker | egrep "open"

I used that to determine if Spotlight was actually indexing what I told it to, but it could be useful for a wide variety of troubleshooting.

That will not work on Linux. For Linux, something like this would do something similar, though there is no single utility available on Linux that is as versatile or useful as “fs_usage:”

sudo lsof -p 2075

Where “2075” is the PID number.

The utility “strace” might work, too.

Also, “fs_usage” can be run without specifying a process, but that is probably not a good idea as the output will be vast.

The reason I like using a Mac vs. Linux or Windows apart from how vastly better the Mac handles hi-dpi and mixed dpi is that in Linux and Windows, you can usually find something that works…sort of. On the Mac, you can usually find the one tool that works perfectly.

That has mattered more to me as I’ve gotten older.