Ayn Rand wrote some of my favorite books: Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead. She also has some great thoughts on the value of philosophy. Below is an article from Farnam Street summarizing some of her thoughts. Of course, I have highlighted my favorite parts. It only takes three minutes to read the article. Here are my thoughts: […]
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After my Dad passed in late 2018, I wrote a couple LIFEies on death (you can read them here and here). My longtime friend Joe Blackbourn sent me the below Yom Kippur sermon from Rabbi Steve Leder and I thought I would share it with our community. I think the whole sermon is worth reading but
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I LOVED the movie “The Dawn Wall” on Netflix. If you have not watched it, please do. It’s well worth your time. Below is an article about Tommy Caldwell, the man who took seven years of his life to figure out how to climb The Dawn Wall in Yosemite. In the article below, he talks
I have spent a lot of time in these LIFEies discussing sleep. For regular followers, you know I am committed to being in bed 7 hours a night, 25-28 nights a month. I have been able to do that since I was declared cancer free in 2014. Why? First, I went 25 years with less than
I get asked quite a bit if I have any mentors. I do — lots of them. My first and most important mentor was my dad (read my LIFEies on my dad here), but I also found mentors in our Founder, Bill Lee (read my LIFEies on Bill Lee here), my coach of 27 years, Dan
When I worked at Grubb and Ellis in the 80s we had a broker who was a nuclear scientist, John Irvine. I’m not sure why he became a broker but that is a different story. John would walk every day for exercise and guess what, he would read a book while he walked. Talk about
I am going all the way back to 2014 today. The below article is from August, 2014. Why am I sending today? Because the value in the content is GREAT. I am not typically a lazy person but I do have my moments. Below is a great article about how to get yourself going and
I have said it before and here it is again: I will continue cleaning up my habits every day until they are all great. I am still working on eating. While working on this topic, I found an infographic about how mindfulness helps break the chain of bad habits. It’s really cool but too long to
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For 25 years we have been hiring interns. Some have been good, some bad, a few GREAT. I’ve learned a lot about internships from both sides — I’ve hired interns and all my children have interned during their summer breaks. My youngest daughter, Claire, thought she wanted to be a nurse when she was in
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I learned the path to becoming financially independent from Robert and Kim Kiyosaki when I was 28 years old. They taught me that getting out of the Rat Race is simple: have enough passive income to offset your living expenses. The key part of that statement is you have to live very inexpensive. There is a
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