Energy, Memory, Glue
And The Moneyball Method
The Moneyball Method uses metaphors to illustrate important themes – and these are sometimes expressed in three-part harmony. Not only do they strike a chord with the reader’s own experiences, but puns notwithstanding, metaphors help describe relationships for unified systems.
Setting the stage, the opening quote for the book’s Introduction is Reinhold Niebuhr’s well-known Serenity Prayer. And because wisdom is not automatic and courage without wisdom can be damaging, serenity depends on lasting courage. Ultimately, these character traits are codependent and must work together.
In the natural world, all living organisms have three things in common: the energy source of mitochondria, the memory chip of DNA and the glue of proteins that hold it all together. For people, add our capacity for reason. No one can change these facts.
And the same is true of people trading in the complex system of a civilized society: the energy source of money, the memory chip of prices and the glue of markets that hold it all together. For consistency and progress, add individual rights defended with clearly defined law. In the arts, these triads are expressed in the elegance and movement of the waltz.
Yet, in our postmodern world, money is debased by every government, prices are degraded by the force of regulation and redistribution – and markets are denigrated by demand-side economists in nearly every institution.
In Moneyball Method terms, all of that is anti-life, but before resorting to activism to “change the world,” a revolution of the mind is needed – just as it was needed in 1760 America before 1776 could become reality. For today’s individual investor, Part II is titled Resolution - and it illustrates how to find this newly discovered independence.
Romantic novelist Victor Hugo frames it this way: “Such are inventors. When one cannot discover America, one discovers a little wagon. At least it is something.” Active learning never ends - or shouldn't.
And to learn more, the price of the paperback is $23.50 for the simple reason that 2 + 3 = 5. This is part of the Fibonacci sequence – the Golden Ratio – the formula of blooming flowers, nautilus shells and swirling galaxies. These are the symmetries and patterns of life.
Similarly, there are eight rows of the abacus on the cover, eight rows on the chess board in Chapter three and the hardcover price is $35.80 (3 + 5 = 8). Either or both can be acquired using the link below.
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