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Nine months ago a lot of people had unprotected sex.  How do I know this? Because I’ve been asked this exact question three times in the past week: What is the ONE piece of advice do you have if you have a newborn baby? I congratulate these people on having such pleasure in their lives […]

In 1980, being a young, strident young journalist and essayist at the age of 12 I decided to call up the Federal Elections Commission and get a list of all of the candidates who were officially running for President and Vice-President. There was the usual crew: “James Earl Carter”, “Edward M Kennedy”, etc  but then […]

  Chances are, everything you hear, read, watch, observe today is total garbage. There’s great advice (heck, I’ve given it) that you need to be quiet and listen and learn. I agree with the “be quiet” but not with the listen. If it’s good advice to shut up then that also means everyone else is […]

Around the summer of 2000 I lost a lot of money. About a million dollars a week in cash. This may seem like, “ok, at least he had that money and he must’ve stopped before he went to zero.” But i went to zero. And the worst part is finding the strength to continue going. […]

I was lying on the floor with my back in pain. Claudia was trying to massage the right point but either she would get it wrong or she would dig her elbow in too much and it would hurt. OOWWW!!! “Ok, stop,” I said. “It’s all good now.” “No, it isn’t. I know that ‘stop’. […]

  About a week or so ago I was in Twitter’s offices in San Francisco. I fell in love. You can see this is a company that is intent on saving the world. I feel these “appointment twitter sessions” where I do the Q&A allows me to be a tiny part of what they are […]

Last night I was on CNBC’s Fast Money. Everyone seems to want to talk about the impending Great Depression: Europe fails, contagion spreads it to here, all of our banks fail, everyone loses their jobs, blah, blah, blah. The world feels like it’s ending. But it’s not. I listed my reasons why. I won’t list […]