0 years that I thought I'd hold it, which was the Turkish cell phone company. Now the company itself is doing great except that the foreign exchange, you know the Turkish currency just went to hell. So anything you invest there is a loser. So it's way underwater. But at this point I feel like now that the United States has recognized the Armenian genocide and that Turkey is still denying it, I feel like I just don't want my money there anymore. So I'll probably pull it out on Monday just for patriotic reasons really. I'm not sure it'll be a bad investment in 10 years but who knows. So that, I don't make any investment advice so don't see any investment advice in this. I'm just telling you I'm no longer comfortable having any money in Turkey. Feels like a bad place to have money. Just my personal opinion.

I love the feud that CNN and Fox News have where it feels like every day Fox News hosts are being called racist by CNN and every day that Fox News or people are calling CNN as propagandists. And I feel as yeah they found a business model where they can make money off of each other's flaws. So part of the content of each of those news networks is insulting the other one. It's kind of clever that they managed to weaponize their hatred of each other and their flaws but it's working. So good for them.

I would like to make a point which I made in my book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." It's about optimizers versus simplifiers. And I think it explains what's going on with the Tony Fauci situation. Situation meaning that Anthony Fauci is of course a technical medical expert on pandemics, etc. And he's been telling us that we got to keep our masks on even if we're vaccinated. Now that's an optimizer. So an optimizer is somebody who doesn't want to leave anything undone. If you can get everything done, do it, even if it's more complicated. Whereas a simplifier would say you know we'd like to do everything but it's going to be too hard so let's just pick the simplest thing we can do that's also big and see if we can get at least one thing done right.

And I would say that leaders tend to be simplifiers. I'm going to make a generality here that somebody who's a leader or president for example or a governor would be a simplifier because they have to be. You can't be a good leader if you're complicating your messages. You just got to be a Trump-like simplifier. Reagan was a good simplifier. But scientists are optimizers. Scientists are optimizers. And so it's pretty obvious why you get a difference. Tony Fauci is saying if you wanted to optimize a reduction of risk you would get the vaccination but you would also wear your mask. And part of it is so that other people don't feel free that they could take their masks off and maybe they're not vaccinated.

And I think that Dr. Nicole Saphier said it best wrapping up this point in a tweet. And she said this: The best strategy to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is to assure the public that vaccines will lead to normalizing our lives. That would be a simple message, right? Unfortunately the CDC, Dr. Fauci, Biden have all missed the mark with messaging and their lack of liberation recommendations adds to the hesitancy.

So the point here being that if you could say to people get you