If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a pyramid scheme – from Excellent Advice for Living

For sure. As much as I am optimistic and think the world is amazing, I also know there are lots of bad people out there. There are especially lots of scams, or scam-ish things happening. I’ve certainly seen a lot of ads for low-quality products trying to compete by producing great ads and exaggerating the benefits.

Pyramid schemes may be less common, but the idea remains. If someone is trying to convince you their offering isn’t a scam, it likely is.

Be careful out there on the wild Internet.

I’ve been posting New Words on Fridays from a book I was reading, however, a friend thought they were a little depressing. They should be as they are obscure sorrows. I like them because they make me think.

To counter-balance those, I’m adding in thoughts on advice, mostly from Kevin Kelley’s book. You can read all these posts under the advice tag.