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A little over a year ago I threw out almost everything I owned. Since then I’ve been living out of a single bag. And then I took off. I live in random places through airbnb or other house or room sharing services. I don’t have a car, I don’t even have a driver’s license. I […]

I’m going to visit the New York Stock Exchange today as a tourist. Last time I was there I felt like killing myself. Last time I was there was around 2010. I used to live on 15 Broad, right across the street from the Exchange. I moved there because before that I lived in The […]

I feel horrible when I’m bad at something. When I started my first business, I was bad at dealing with partners, employees, money, expenses, and negotiation. There’s no way to start a business without being bad at those things. People who are good, are good because they spent ten years being bad. Note: You have […]

When I first wrote “Choose Yourself” I didn’t want to write another BS self-help book that nobody would read. I was telling a story about something bad that happened to me, about a time I wanted to kill myself because I thought my daughters would benefit more from my life insurance policy than from having […]

I was afraid I was going to lose my biggest client. And my job. So I let him yell at me repeatedly. I met a friend of mine. She said, “My grandma told me there are only two types of decisions: Decisions made out of fear and decisions made out of growth.” For instance, do […]

Weird Suits, Free Money and the True Story About How I Saved the Economy With Chocolate….oh and how I’m investing now. It happened. Again. After seven years of holding short-term interest rates at roughly 0%, with no hikes for nearly a decade, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank last December officially begun to tighten up its […]

I was having breakfast with one of the biggest hedge fund managers. He was telling me his latest ideas. Then he stopped chewing and said, “you know what. You’re a remora.” I didn’t know what that was. The food was practically spitting in my face. “A remora is a fish that is a blood-sucking leech”. […]