This video post deals with the ever-improving world as told in a TED talk by Hans Rosling. Hans who died in 2017, was a Swedish physician and statistician who collected statistics, and his own showmanship to illuminate facts and trends that were revealed by the data. In a series of presentations … [Read more...] about How the Washing Machine Changed the World
Hans Rosling
Factfulness – 10 Reasons We are Wrong about the World
This week’s post is a book review. The book is called “Factfulness - 10 reasons We are Wrong about the World - and Why Things are Better Than You Think”. The book was written by Hans Rosling and completed by his son and daughter-n-law upon Hans’s death in 2017. The book deals with quite a bit … [Read more...] about Factfulness – 10 Reasons We are Wrong about the World
How the Washing Machine Changed the World
This video post deals with the ever-improving world as told in a TED talk by Hans Rosling. We posted this piece by Hans in 2014, and wanted to run it again to honor Hans as he passed away this month. Hans Rosling was a Swedish doctor who transformed himself into a pop-star statistician by … [Read more...] about How the Washing Machine Changed the World
Why You Should be Optimistic about the Future?
Optimism in the future. That is one of our three principles that we follow here at Crimmins Wealth Management, LLC. Without the belief that 1) the world continues to get better and 2) that improvement will benefit those who are owners of companies, it is hard to be an investor. However any … [Read more...] about Why You Should be Optimistic about the Future?
Will saving poor children lead to overpopulation?
This post contains two short videos from Hans Rosling who is is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute, a medical university in Stockholm, Sweden, and is one of the largest and most prestigious … [Read more...] about Will saving poor children lead to overpopulation?
Why You Should be Optimistic about the Future?
Optimism in the future. That is one of our three principles that we follow here at Crimmins Wealth Management, LLC. Without the belief that 1) the world continues to get better and 2) that improvement will benefit those who are owners of companies, it is hard to be an investor. However any … [Read more...] about Why You Should be Optimistic about the Future?