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“You get used to it after a little while – the smell of pee,” she said. “It just doesn’t bother me anymore.” This is what my friend’s sister told me last week. She lives in San Francisco, and apparently she…

In August of 2019, I wrote about how the country of Guyana was on the verge of massive transformation. Although there was no pure play way to invest in this opportunity, my timing was pretty good: Since 2019, Guyana’s GDP…

“I’m a bee pimp,” he said, smiling at me. “A what?” I asked. “I’m an apiculturist – a bee keeper. I rent out my bees for profit,” he answered. I looked back at him, while stuffing my face with a…

I’m not really sure where to start with this one. “Cannabis value investing” should say it all, but there is so much more to this story… at least from a personal perspective. I’ll try to keep this intro short, because I…

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…