Personal Development

One day, we’ll look back and realize that the death rate compared to the actual infection rate was FAR overestimated. We’ll look back and realize the destruction that we caused to our economy and society ended up leading to a…

Although I rarely talk about it, in my ‘former life’ I used to be a professional firefighter in Los Angeles. What most people don’t realize is that firefighters (at least in the LA area) mostly deal with non-fire emergencies. Where…

“When will our table be ready?” I asked. “We’re waiting for a party to finish up. It shouldn’t take more than another thirty minutes,” the hostess replied. I looked at her surprised, “Thirty minutes more minutes? Our reservations were for…

I have dozens of embarrassing articles posted all over the internet. I have no idea how to remove them, edit them, or pretend they don’t exist… they all seem to come back and haunt me when I least expect. I’ve…

I received a pitch deck last week from a contact I’ve spent quite a bit of personal time with. The deck is hideous. All black and white, no fancy graphics, and nothing that is visually stimulating. Furthermore, there isn’t even…

Last week we offered a new investment in a company that we have already invested in. So, this will be the second time investing in this company and this time we’re deploying even more capital at a higher valuation.  (This…

Practice what you preach… right? Many real estate investors, who derive the majority of their income from the actual properties that they own,  don’t own the home that they live in. Seems weird that someone who invests in real estate…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know all about how the cannabis industry has been absolutely exploding over the past several years. There are thousands of legal cannabis businesses throughout the world and well over 100 publicly traded…

(Cannabis Industry Listen Up!) It was Spring of 2011, and for the first time in my life I had some money in the bank that I could actually go out and use. It wasn’t a huge sum, but enough to…

“The impulsion to leap to embarrassingly unjustified conclusions in order to put the horror of aging out of one’s mind.” That’s what Aubrey de Grey has to say about why humans become obsessed with relatively meaningless tasks throughout our lives…