Tuesday, November 08, 2022

You Don’t Have To Know Everything

If the Wall Street Journal offers you this opportunity, Want to Stay informed? Subscribe to Our Notifications and Stay In The Know About Everything. Fella says you should say, No! I Want To Know Nothing! 

The Wall Street Journal is not the only one that wants to fill up your entire day. It is the example that just jumped in front of me and prompted me to warn you to be careful about what you sign up for.

They mean well...Or do they? I was just clicking around on my computer and all of a sudden I was looking at the WSJ’s Newsletters & Alerts Offerings. If I had said OK to every one of them I would have covered my days up with more information than I could handle for a long time to come until I figured out how to get out from under their Information Avalanche. You can bet your sweet bippy it would not be easy figure out how to get out. 

Be Afraid...Be Very Afraid

Here is an list of what the WSJ offered to me. Don’t be afraid of me like I have warned you to be afraid of them. Just skim through the list and remember, Don’t Subscribe To Anything especially when you are given the opportunity to Subscribe to Everything and then you can get back to reading about Football and the Midterm Elections.

Here is the list. Remember To Skim!...

The 10-Point.

A personal, guided tour to the best scoops and stories every day in The Wall Street Journal.

What’s News

Catch up on the headlines, understand the news and make better decisions, free in your inbox every day.

Markets

A pre-markets primer packed with news, trends and ideas. Plus, up-to-the-minute market data.

The Future of Everything

A look at how innovation and technology are transforming the way we live, work and play.

Capital Journal

Scoops, analysis and insights driving Washington from the WSJ's D.C. bureau.

Real Time Economics

The latest economic news, analysis and data curated weekdays by WSJ's Jeffrey Sparshott.

The Intelligent Investor

Jason Zweig writes about investment strategy and how to think about money.

WSJ Crypto

Smart and accessible crypto market analysis for investors.

Heard on the Street

Agenda-setting analysis and commentary on the biggest corporate and market stories.

Wealth Adviser

A daily summary of news and insights for financial pros.

WSJ Climate & Energy

A weekly must-read of news, analysis and exclusive data focused on the intersection of business, money and climate.

Technology

A weekly digest of tech reviews, headlines, columns and your questions answered by WSJ's Personal Tech gurus.

Tech Things With Joanna Stern

Everything is now a tech thing. Columnist Joanna Stern is your guide, giving analysis and answering your questions about our always-connected world.

Family + Tech

Columnist Julie Jargon, a mother of three, helps families find answers and address concerns about the ways technology is impacting their lives.

Grapevine

A weekly look at our most colorful, thought-provoking and original feature stories on the business of life.

WSJ. Magazine

A weekly roundup of fashion, entertainment, design, food, travel, art, architecture and more.

Careers & Leadership

Get ahead and stay informed about careers, business, management and leadership.

Diversity + Business

An insightful weekly view of how diversity is changing the landscape of business with new company policies, workplace trends and redefined missions.

Women In

A special newsletter inspired by WSJ’s Women In series, with good reads, inspiring ideas and opportunities to connect with other women business leaders.

Real Estate

From aspirational residences to major commercial deals.

Sports

A curated weekly tour of WSJ's unique take on the sports world including news and features.

WSJ Networking Challenge

A five-week challenge from the WSJ careers and work team designed to boost your network and make the connections that matter.

WSJ Investing Challenge

A five-part course from WSJ columnists to introduce you to the basics of investing, delivered to your email inbox.

WSJ Money Challenge

A six-week course designed by the WSJ personal finance team to help you improve your knowledge of your finances, delivered to your email inbox.

WSJ Fitness Challenge

A six-week program of exercises designed by an NBA sports performance coach for all skill levels that can be done almost anywhere, and delivered to your email inbox.

In Today's Paper

A complete list, with links, of every article from the day's Journal.

Today's Print Edition

Your daily print edition of the Wall Street Journal

WSJ | CMO Today

CMO Today delivers the most important news of the day for media and marketing professionals.

WSJ | CFO Journal

The Morning Ledger provides daily news and insights on corporate finance from the CFO Journal team.

WSJ | CIO Journal

The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team.

WSJ | Risk and Compliance Journal

Our Morning Risk Report features insights and news on governance, risk and compliance.

The Logistics Report

Top news and in-depth analysis on the world of logistics, from supply chain to transport and technology.

The Workplace Report

A weekly dive into return to office, diversity and inclusion, and labor trends important to HR executives and other corporate decision makers.

WSJ PRO

Sustainable Business

A weekly look at environmental, social and governance issues and strategies for corporate decision makers.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors.

Central Banking

Central banking news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors.

Private Equity

Private Equity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors.

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors.

Best of the Web

James Freeman of the Journal editorial board comments on the news of the day.

Morning Editorial Report

All the day's Opinion headlines.

Books

Be the first to find out what's new and what's good. Get the weekend book reviews before the weekend.

Buy Side from WSJ

A weekly update with new product finds and recommendations. Buy Side from WSJ is a separate team from the WSJ newsroom.

Wall Street Journal New Features and Product Highlights

Receive The Wall Street Journal new features and product highlights. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Dow Jones Updates and Special Offers

Receive updates and special offers from Dow Jones and affiliates, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's. You can unsubscribe at any time.

News

Major world and business news, including political events, takeovers.

Deals

Major news in the world of deals and deal-makers.

Markets

Major financial-market and trading news.

Politics

Major political news, from campaigns to the Capitol.

Technology

Major news in the technology sector.

Heard on the Street

The first word on what Wall Street is talking about.

Energy

Select breaking and enterprise stories about energy markets and businesses, through news alerts delivered to you via email.

Education

Select coverage from the WSJ's education bureau on the state of schools and learning, curated by bureau chief Chastity Pratt and sent to you via email.

Puzzles

Sign up to receive email alerts when a new puzzle is available.

On Wine

Lettie Teague provides incisive criticism and accessible advice on the world of wine.

Personal Finance

The latest news on how to manage your money.

Personal Technology

Joanna Stern and the rest of the Personal Technology team review new products and technologies.

Amazon

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Facebook

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Goldman Sachs

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Tesla

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GE

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As you may remember I refer to my blogging as Mind Wandering. Let your Mind Wander with me for a few moments more. If the WSJ’s List of Distractions and Interruptions had been around in years past, great things would not have happened because the make-it-happen people back then would have been too busy to make the things happen. They would have been Notified and Interrupted and Distracted and Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered but they would Not Have Been Productive.

Ø Iron Lungs would be all over the Fruited Plain because Dr. Jonas Salk would never have come up with his Salk Polio Vaccine... 


Fella Question of the Day: The Salk Polio Vaccine prevented you from getting Polio. 
The Vaccine did not cure Polio in people who already had Polio. Did you ever wonder what happened to all those thousands of people already in Iron Lungs? Did they really spend the rest of their lives in those things? I guess they did. Here is an amazing story of one that did...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/texas-man-lives-70-years-in-an-iron-lung-i-never-gave-up-180979008/

Ø We would all be tangled up in the strings between 2 spinach cans as we tried to communicate with each other because Alexander Graham Bell would not have been able to concentrate on inventing the Telephone. 

Ø We would all be sitting around our dimly lit family rooms trying to read books made out of paper because Steve Jobs had been too distracted to invent his Smartphone  and Thomas Edison would have been too flabbergasted to invent his Light Bulb .

At this point I am tempted to launch into an extended apology for the length of this Blog Posting but I am certain you have had enough of me so I’ll simply say, Please Forgive Me!

Oh yea, don’t forget to not sign up for nunin (Yea, I know that’s a misspelled double negative).

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You are my hero. Documenting that which is unreadable gets you nominated for the Blog award formally know as NOBEL in Literature