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Last November I got up on stage in front of hundreds of successful investors. My good friend Keith had invited me to speak about building businesses and unique investing ideas. What I shared with his audience was not traditional investing…

In the evenings, I take my kids to the beach to let them burn all of their energy before bed. I bring a bunch of soft top surfboards, shovels, and toys for them to have fun with. We spend over…

The pub was dangerously overcrowded, with men in stuffy suits standing shoulder to shoulder like a bunch of penguins. From the street, where I stood,  these pub-penguins were overflowing onto the street in the trendy Shoreditch district of London. As…

On August 30, 1941, the Yelnya Offensive began with the Soviet Army pushing out the invading Germans. By September 8th, the Germans finally retreated amid heavy fighting, leaving combined casualties on both sides exceeding 50,000. Journalists, who later visited the…

Just as I turned the corner of the small building on the fishing pier, I saw a woman holding a gun to a man’s face. She didn’t see me, and I wanted nothing to do with her, as I turned…

I just found a zero percent interest real estate loan. My dad forwarded me an email, and I stared at it scratching my head, “Is this a real? How are they able to do this?” Then I paused and thought…

“What do you think this place will look like in 100 years?” she asked me, while we were driving down a dirt road in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle. “Probably the same,” I said, while we bounced down…

Of all the topics that I wrote about in a recent post, I received over a dozen responses for the mention of two simple words: rural cult. I actually wasn’t even writing about cults or anything rural, but clearly those…

Despite ‘the progress‘ that has been advertised, the impending economic crisis seems to be palpable within society. Consumer confidence – which indicates household’s future planned consumption and savings habits – is near record low levels. Similarly, confidence from businesses has…

In 1878 Thomas Doolittle invented a process that changed the world – he figured out how to make copper strong enough to stretch into wire without breaking. Over the next several decades, with the help of people like Thomas Edison…