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Creatix /  February 5, 2026 COVID Changed Food Prices Forever  Ask almost anyone how grocery prices feel compared to 2019 and you’ll hear the same answer: “Everything’s way more expensive.”  The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just raise prices. It established a new order in the food industry.  Before COVID: Cheap, Predictable, Invisible In December 2019, food prices were boring. That was the point. Supply chains were optimized for efficiency, not resilience. Most Americans never thought about fertilizer shortages, global shipping lanes, labor availability, or weather in Spain affecting olive oil. Food was background noise. COVID ended that illusion. The First Shock: 2020–2021 When the pandemic hit, food inflation didn’t explode immediately. Instead: Processing plants shut down or slowed Farm labor became scarce Shipping containers didn't move on time  Governments injected trillions of dollars into demand against limited supply This didn’t just raise prices—it changed ...

Creatix / February 4, 2026 What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What about three languages? Trilingual. What about only one language? American. We laugh because it lands uncomfortably close to home. Learning a foreign language is not in our comfort zone in the US. And that’s exactly why it might be the best un-American skill you should work on. Why Americans Don’t Learn Languages It’s not laziness. It’s environment . America is huge. English is the language that rules the business world. Movies, music, business, science, the internet, and the world default to English. You can live an entire life here and almost anywhere without ever needing another language. Need is a powerful teacher, and we generally don't have it when it comes to learning another language. We're blessed with English. There’s are many angles involved: “Why learn another language when we don't need to? Why learn when everyone else either knows English or should just learn it? Are ...

Creatix / February 3, 2026 From recent highs, Bitcoin's price has dropped by roughly 40% , triggering the usual cycle of headlines— collapse, bubble, reckoning, finally exposed . To casual observers, this looks like confirmation of Bitcoin's failure. To long-term observers, it looks like a familiar chapter in a repeating story. This is a revised version of a controversial statement that has gotten us into trouble in the past:  Even after this recent 40% drawdown, Bitcoin’s long-term return profile remains so extreme that a tiny allocation would have dwarfed the lifetime performance of one of the greatest investors who ever lived,  Warren Buffett . And Buffett's mistake wasn’t going “all in.” The mistake was not risking even less than 1% on Bitcoin . A note from Creatix At Creatix, our readers are the mission. We put words together as tools for life improvement. Our goal is simple: by reading our content, you gain ideas, perspectives, and questions that help you think bett...

Creatix / Feb 1, 2026 Your Brain Against Time: The Neuroscience of Waiting Who likes waiting? Not many hands go up. Waiting sounds easy. After all, all we have to do is nothing—just wait, right? Not so fast. Neuroscience tells a different story, and we know it from experience. Waiting is uncomfortable. It often makes us bored or anxious , even when nothing is technically wrong. That’s because waiting is not passive. When we wait, our brains become hyper-active , allocating energy, attention, and chemistry to a future moment that hasn’t arrived yet. In this post, we explain why waiting feels the way it does by distinguishing between two fundamentally different kinds of waiting: waiting for a known outcome, which tends to trigger boredom waiting for an unknown outcome, which tends to trigger anxiety A note from Creatix At Creatix, our readers are the mission. We put words together as tools for life improvement. Our goal is simple: by reading our content, you gain ideas, perspectives,...

Creatix / January 31, 2026 Walking feels automatic when we're healthy, but most of us slowly pick bad habits from chairs, phones, shoes, distraction, and stress. The good news: tiny fixes make walking easier, safer, and surprisingly more energizing.  At Creatix, our readers are the mission. We put words together as tools for life improvement. The idea is that by reading our content, you get inspiration for your own ideas and questions to improve your life. We emphasize reading over videos and podcasts because reading is a better workout for your brain. We publish consulting books as smart alternatives to dumb scrolling. Check them out at consultingbooks.com  Top 3 Things Most People Do Wrong When Walking 1. Slouching or Leaning Forward What goes wrong: Head juts forward, shoulders round, upper back collapses. This often comes from phone use and desk time. Why it matters: Compresses the neck and spine Increases fatigue and back/neck pain Makes walking feel heavier than it shou...

Creatix / January 29, 2026 1) Lehman Brothers (2008) Losses to creditors: ~$362B in claims with ~21% estimated recovery → ~79% shortfall (~$286B estimated loss) Job losses: ~26,000 employees lost jobs after bankruptcy What went wrong: Extreme leverage and short-term funding dependence; once confidence collapsed, liquidity vanished, triggering a systemic financial panic 2) General Motors (2009) Losses to creditors: ~$172.81B debt at filing (recoveries altered by restructuring and government intervention) Job losses: Tens of thousands of jobs cut (e.g., ~23,000 hourly jobs discussed), plus massive supplier and dealer spillovers What went wrong: Long-term structural cost burdens and competitiveness issues collided with the 2008–2009 demand collapse and credit freeze 3) Enron (2001) Losses to creditors: Tens of billions exposed as off-balance-sheet debt and fabricated earnings unraveled Job losses: 4,000 layoffs plus 3,500 temporary leaves immediately after filing, with severe pension and ...

Creatix / January 29, 2026 Reality Is Built From Quantities We Cannot Conceptualize Scientists describe life as complex, often saying it emerges from “countless” smaller and simpler processes. The word countless can sound poetic or evasive, but it is not an exaggeration. The quantities involved are so large that they exceed the limits of human intuition, time perception, and narrative thinking. Once we begin to understand and respect the true scale of the processes that generate reality—including our bodies, emotions, thoughts, and choices—we gain something valuable: humility. Not the kind that diminishes us, but the kind that relieves us. We realize that life is not as simple as it often feels in moments of frustration, and that no single thought, feeling, or action carries the burden of defining us. At Creatix, our readers are the mission. We put words together as tools for life improvement. The idea is that reading our content can inspire your own ideas for improving your life. We ...

Creatix / January 28, 2026 The movie industry looks glamorous from the outside, but economically it is a high-risk, uneven system built on uncertainty. Most films lose money or barely break even. Budgets are spent long before anyone knows whether audiences will show up, and marketing costs can rival production costs. Unlike many industries, effort, talent, and planning do not guarantee success. A well-made film can fail quietly, while an unexpected hit can explode globally. What keeps the industry alive is not consistency, but rare, outsized successes. A small number of blockbusters generate profits large enough to offset dozens of losses. One hit can pay for years of failed projects, fund future experimentation, and keep studios solvent. This creates a portfolio logic: studios spread bets across many films, knowing most will underperform, but a few will more than compensate. In that sense, the movie industry behaves like venture capital or cultural evolution. Studios don’t need every ...