When I travel and we are working late into the night it can be hard to find a time to talk with my son. In addition, my son loves to pretend to talk on the phone, but hasn’t been so keen on talking on the real telephone. This time was different. He left me the voicemail below. You may need to listen to it more than once to understand everything he said, but it warms a father’s heart.
It never really crossed my mind that dropping out of High School was a possibility when I was going to school. The reasons are varied, but I had great parents that pushed education, a pretty good school system, and the social structure I grew up in. What shocked me in reading this article was this statement: Only…
I enjoy the small business blog from the NYTimes, especially the posts from Jay Goltz. Here is one of his better ones: 10 Things Job Applicants Should Know
Maybe you wont become a best selling author, but it is pretty amazing that you can publish a book on your own with the technology available today. Here is an NPR story about an author going outside the normal process Barry Eisler’s ‘Detachment’ From ‘Legacy’ Publishing : NPR. Plus we have a friend, Jen Tucker who published her…
I played football from 4th grade till 11th. It was a sport that forced me to grow physically and mentally. I interacted with kids that I wouldn’t normally have done things with and had some really great coaches. Coaches that helped me become who I am today as a person, much more than as an…
Check out these two great investment resources. They won’t tell you exactly what to pick, but they offer resources to develop an investment strategy that maximizes your return and not those of your financial planner, broker, or some other Financial services company. Here is an article from the San Fransisco Magazine talking about the history of this…
This is an older article that I tagged, but found it incredibly interesting. Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first. Article Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/education-isnt-enough/590611/