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A few days ago I watched the documentary Iverson. It’s about the life of the basketball player Allen Iverson. He was a favourite ball player in my teens, a period when I used to play the sport many times a week. Iverson was small for a NBA player. At
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I was listening to an episode of the Freakonomics podcast series “The Secret Life of a CEO” and I found this segment with David Rubeinsten, the billionaire co-founder of the private equity fund Carlyle Group, timely: RUBENSTEIN: “My biggest concern is I’m now 68 years old, and actuarial tables
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It’s taken a while but I’ve decided to return to more frequent blogging. I’ve held back often, going several months without writing anything due to fear of not having much insight to offer. I also deleted a bunch of blog posts I published many years ago, since
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We give advice all the time. And when we’re not busy dishing out our very own seemingly sweet words of wisdom, we search for it in gurus, friends, family, books, and religion. Advice-giving is not just a multi-billion dollar business either. It’s impact permeates everything from simple day-to-day
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Here’s a message I sent to my private mailing list today. I haven’t blogged in a while so I thought I’d share something. If you like it, you can join over 100 other people (or 144 to be exact) who receive an email from me once a
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I fell into writing accidentally. In fact I never really started reading books seriously until age 20 or so (though I ordered my first non-fiction on book on Amazon aged 18 – it was Plato). From age 20, I started reading books on a range of non-fiction on topics. Here’s
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Aged 25. His Team Spent $500,000 on the Thriller Video. This is an essay to myself as a reminder to make the most of the time I have. You have a lot of energy now. Your body will begin to slow down when you are older, so work like
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You’re more attractive if you’re already in a relationship. You’re more employable if you already got a job. In fact you’ll make a lot more money once you have lots of money. It seems to me that in life, all you have to do is make