Rumi Nations

I am late to this but the former PIMCO boss Bill Gross seemed to have some really eccentric ways. The article mentions about starting work before morning in California to be ready for market opening in New York. And the guy once ran 125 miles as a date challenged him to do it — in the process causing himself some kidney damage. The guy does yoga and reports that there are no six pack or one pack guys around. He does famous digressions in his investor letters to talk about his dead cat. At an investor conference recently, he wore sunglasses and compared himself to Justin Bieber. Quite colorful and quite a character, yes? And some fine relationship advice .

In his acceptance speech on being awarded the Elijah Lovejoy award, Mr. James Risen talks about how conventional wisdom can stifle real thinking. There is much food for thought in his speech and made me think 'what if there is a slavery problem in our time' or 'what if there is a Hitler in our age'? The meaning should be clear — just because there is no problem as acute as actual 'slavery' does not mean there are no acute problems left. So, what is our response to the worst of our extant problems? How much of unconventional thinking are we willing to undertake about them? What are the boundaries of our concerns or how far do they stretch. I feel it's critically important to escape the shackles of routine thinking and justifying mindsets and attitudes just because they were bequeathed to us by our culture, society or surroundings. Humans must learn to become less parochial.