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Sometimes I sit around having imaginary arguments with people I love/hate. They did this! And this! WHY?? I loved them. How could they do this!? I did THIS for them. WHY? I could do this fun activity for hours. Days even! I imagine what they say. And what I say back. And what they say. […]

1) WRITE DOWN 10 IDEAS A DAY I started doing this in 2002. My first list: 10 chapters for a book called “How to Beat Your Friends at Every Game in the Universe”. I never wrote the book. The next day I wrote down the next set of 10 ideas. And the next day the […]

I went to the Warren Buffett annual meeting in 2003. I had just started a hedge fund. I had read every book I could about Warren Buffett. And about one year later I even wrote a book (“Trade Like Warren Buffett”, 2005) about Warren Buffett that was different from all the others. I was fascinated. He […]

Judy Blume told me, “I defined your childhood, correct?” “Yes Judy Blume,” I said. “So listen to me.” And I did. I did. And I still do. Judy Blume has sold 150 million copies of her books. Books I read as a kid. Books I grew up on. Books that helped me survive the agony […]

I did a bad thing. I was in the middle of a meeting. It was my second week at a new job. I had set up the meeting with some people I thought we could do business with. Suddenly I couldn’t bare the thought of spending another second at that job. For all the reasons […]