Survival

Suppose I was trying to sell you an investment, and I asked you to give me a sizable amount of money, say $50,000 — but I’m not actually giving you…

Remember when you were twelve, and you promised your mother you’d wait here after school until she or your father left work to pick you up? As soon as you…

“…marketing executives are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.” – David Ogilvy…

Being Easter weekend, this seemed like a good time to set aside financial matters for a change and talk about quality of life. If you’re like most people, you’ve felt…

They call it the “gig economy” or the “sharing economy.” It’s made up of people who cobble together a living based on multiple part-time and/or temporary jobs, stitching together the…

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam We want it badly.  Our parents want it for us — at least that’s what they said when…

A chapter from my past made me think about what it means to be intelligent and what it takes to succeed. Years ago, my high school physics teacher, in a…

A Netherlands non-profit plans to send 40 men and women on a one-way trip to Mars. To date, they have received over 200,000 applications for a seat. The Mars One…

For a brief time the NASDAQ was outperforming both the S&P 500 and Dow on a yearly basis. That was before the big bummer where the tech-heavy NASDAQ got hammered,…

As seen on TV’s endless discussion of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, everyone is looking for the black box. It would probably help speed things up if more people…