“Welcome to Ure’s Thinkporium”
“OK, What’s a Thinkporium?”
Well, it’s equal parts carnival barker booth and lab doorplate.
I’m one of those non-attached, scattered but everywhere-at-once kinds of people.
Sure, anyone can dig a deep silo in one field — but the fun starts when you mash down domain walls and start scaling general reality.
That — and conquering durable wealth — is the whole game.
Durable Wealth?
Took me a while to get there.
All my life I’ve heard, “You can’t take it with you.”
Maybe not the house, not the car, not the stack of silver rounds — but there are things you can take with you.
That’s the whole premise behind my books — Doctor Between Your Ears and the upcoming Mind Amplifiers, about using cognitive prosthetics and upgraded thinking tools.
Durable wealth is what you carry in your spirit.
It’s the knowledge, humor, and joy that travel light — even into a hospital bed or nursing home.
If you can still laugh and love on the way out, you’ve already beaten the house.
Property? Gold? Federal Reserve notes?
Mere piffles.
If you don’t have your joy packed for the trip, you’ve played the game and lost.
Not everyone hears this directly in life.
So I spread it around — across different sites, books, experiments, and weekly columns.
Keeps the game interesting, don’t you see?
Not big on getting out of airplanes while they are still in the sky. I leave that to my son.
Where to Start
- UrbanSurvival.com – The daily column. Markets, prepping, politics, Woo-Woo, and a fair helping of plainspoken ranch life.
- Peoplenomics.com – The deep dive. Cycles, economics, and how to play the long game in a noisy world.
- HiddenGuild.dev – The lab bench. AI, cognition, and the frontiers of mind technology.
- MindAmplifiers.com – Book hub and research notes for Mind Amplifiers: On Human Use of Cognitive Prosthetics.
- ShopTalk Sunday – My weekend fix-it bench. Ham radio, woodworking, solar, and whatever broke last week.
Schedule
Goes generally like this:
- Monday and Tuesday: UrbanSurvival. About 7:30 – 8:00 AM Central.
- Wednesday: Peoplenomics, about the same time. This is the Deep Dive edition. ChartPack, of course, but usually we do a high dive into something useful.
- Thursday and Friday: Back to UrbanSurvival at the usual time.
- Saturday: Peoplenomics – mainly he ChartPack because market silliness takes weekends off and where money lands on its “safe time” is our focus.
- Sunday: ShopTalk Sunday. Most times, I try to write it in advance so it auto-posts around 6 AM. But the vagaries of cron jobs in Linux mean if I sleep in, it should be along about 7 AM.
Honestly, it’s a pretty grueling schedule. But since becoming a morning drive rock and roll news director back in ’70, it has become a habit. Get up early, read news, think. Then go have a life.
The rhythm is still there, and at least for now, so’s the life…
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Every book sale and subscription helps keep the lights on, the servers humming, and the experiments funded.
If you like what you read, grab a title, share a link, or drop a note — it all loops back into the Thinkporium.
Final Thought
Durable wealth is rocket fuel for the soul.
Everything else is just ballast.
Go pick a column and start reading.