This one may be worth printing off and tacking up on your wall.
Here in Northern Nevada, and across the Sierras in California, real estate prices are going nuts. To my jaded eyes, of course it’s a bubble. When anything doubles in price for no logical reason, there are weird and highly-suspicious market factors […]

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This is not an actual entry.
I just dragged my jet-lagged ass in the door from the cross-country flight back from Bencivenga’s awesome seminar in New York, and discovered by blog was… well, blank. Not good.
So, in the interest of squelching rumors about my untimely demise, before they start, I’m just […]

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Update #1: I’ll be out of the office until Tuesday, May 24th. Diane will be checking email and dumping water on whatever crises occur during that time, but there will be no critiques done and no personal communication with me.
Why? Glad you asked. I’m off to Noo Yawk City for the big […]

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One of the critical tools that will serve you well throughout your career as an entrepreneur… is being a contrarian.
The term “contrarian” came from the financial markets, initially. It means, basically, that when everyone else is going right, you go left. It’s an investment strategy that assumes the “crowd” is almost always acting […]

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I’ve been thinking about movement again.
What stops many people is just the enormity of the task ahead of them. They know the old saying “every journey begins with a single step”… but they can’t take that first step because they’re frozen in awe of the entire adventure ahead.
Yet the wisdom of taking each step […]

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I came of age during a particularly fertile time in American history.
Things were jumping on all fronts. The Sexual Revolution, the Vietnam War, and my own awareness of adult life were all peaking during the years I went to college (1970 to 1975). Everything I had accepted as “normal” and “good” while growing […]

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