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Run Family Like Michael Corleone
Being an asshole is a tool like any other. Use it. This will probably involve making morally ambiguous choices. You will probably have regrets.
Be that person to the world, because you have to. But unlike Corleone, maintain a firewall. Be another, worthy person to those you care about. Continue reading
On Life Arcs
A collection of posts that culminated in Echoes of a Life Well Lived. Continue reading
Review – Black Market Billions: How Organized Retail Crime Funds Global Terrorists
Black Market Billions This book is probably what happens when you write a book about something interesting – organized retail crime (ORC) – but your agent/publisher wants you to connect it to a bigger market – global … Continue reading
Reading + Listening
I listen to audiobooks of tomes I won’t be notating extensively. (Boyd said that if you didn’t write more than what was on the page in the margins, you weren’t reading closely enough.) I listen at 2x speed, perhaps the … Continue reading
On Money
I don’t make much money. I haven’t for a while. I’m OK with that.It only bothers me when I’m at a dinner party I don’t want to be at and someone confuses immediate liquidity with success. Success isn’t about now. … Continue reading