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Uphill Battles Are Fun

Holy Grails | May 11th, 2008

Sometimes it feels like an uphill battle to fight against the drumbeat of fundamental predictions and gurus predicting this or that after the fact, but then I am reminded (article) why I like to take the vantage I do. That Yahoo article will be read by tens of thousands, but how many will pause and realize at immediate first thought that it is useless?

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