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…
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…
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 […]
A) Gold is never a hedge against recession if you look through history. It’s not a hedge for inflation, it’s not a hedge against the stock market. Gold can’t pay for anything.…
A) Gold is never a hedge against recession if you look through history. It’s not a hedge for inflation, it’s not a hedge against the stock market. Gold can’t pay for anything. Gold is s***. B) Bitcoin is the new gold: It can be used for transactions. It is backed by ten thousand years of […]
Everyone is forgotten. Four generations from now, nobody will know your name. Everyone who likes your Instagram photo today will be dust. The air molecules they breathe out today, scattered all over…
Everyone is forgotten. Four generations from now, nobody will know your name. Everyone who likes your Instagram photo today will be dust. The air molecules they breathe out today, scattered all over the world. The other day I was doing an hour of stand-up comedy to a sold-out house of about 160. The great thing […]
WILL THERE BE RECESSION IN 2019? DEFINITELY NOT! Here’s why, here’s the counter-argument, here’s what you should do: A recession doesn’t mean “bear market”. A bear market is when the stock market…
WILL THERE BE RECESSION IN 2019? DEFINITELY NOT! Here’s why, here’s the counter-argument, here’s what you should do: A recession doesn’t mean “bear market”. A bear market is when the stock market goes down 20% or more. A recession means two quarters in a row of negative growth in the economy. It means people have […]
Yasser Arafat was secretly my investor. Fortunately that business (Vaultus) failed and Yasser lost $2 million. HIdden blessings are everywhere. I thought my passion was to write a bestselling novel in 1990.…
Yasser Arafat was secretly my investor. Fortunately that business (Vaultus) failed and Yasser lost $2 million. HIdden blessings are everywhere. I thought my passion was to write a bestselling novel in 1990. I never did it and ended up starting a business, then another, then another, then another. I failed so many times I finally […]
I desperately wanted to publish a novel because I wanted to disguise the real me. I wanted women to think I was interesting and maybe they would agree to go on a…
I desperately wanted to publish a novel because I wanted to disguise the real me. I wanted women to think I was interesting and maybe they would agree to go on a date with me. The four novels I wrote from 1990-1995 were rejected by hundreds of publishers. Were they bad? Probably. But I wish […]
