“Death is very likely the single best invention of life.”
--Steve Jobs
Mother Nature cares very little for the individual. She uses death as a sorting and cleansing mechanism. What can her brutal indifference teach us about investing and good decision-making hygiene?
We’re perpetually dying inside. No, really. Apoptosis is a biological process in multicellular organisms that's best described as programmed cell death. It's ancient Greek for "falling off," like leaves from a tree. Apoptosis is a highly regulated process within the body, happening constantly. The average adult loses between 50 and 70 billion cells every day due to apoptosis. That sounds like a lot. But recent estimates put the total cells in the human body around 37 trillion. So we’re only...

