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The other day I made $10 winning a set of tennis at a public park. It was a funny situation because I didn't set out to make money playing tennis. It just happened. I was hitting with my long-time buddy, Richard, next to a young man and a couple of regulars. We asked them if […]

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A neighbor across the street from my rental texted me at 3:35pm on a Saturday to say something had been beeping inside my property all day and my tenants appeared to be gone. I drove over, let myself in, and found three smoke alarms stacked on the garage floor with the top one screaming away. […]

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This summer, my new AI investment advisor, Mezzi, discovered roughly $300,000 of hidden stock exposure in Google I didn't know I had. It sounds a little absurd, given the amount. But I've been investing in Google for over 15 years, and with a complicated net worth it's hard to track everything accurately when your mind anchors […]

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Happy Labor Day weekend everyone. Perhaps some of you are in the market for a new car this weekend. I'm definitely not. After almost a year of deliberating between replacing my 2015 Range Rover Sport or continuing to fix it, I've finally decided to keep fixing it indefinitely. The main reason is that we may […]

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I'm reading a great little book called The Practice Of Not Reacting: Zen Wisdom For A Happy Life by Ryushun Kusanagi. The publisher is Portfolio Penguin, the same publisher for my 2027 book, Your Children Will Be OK. One of the core concepts is that all of us want to be recognized for our contributions. At work, at […]

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Ever since graduating from business school in 2006, one of my favorite ways to learn is through case studies. And there's no better case study for understanding the IPO quiet period than Anthropic's upcoming IPO. Anthropic is expected to publicly file its IPO prospectus after Labor Day, with a listing as soon as late September […]

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In April 2026, I gave up my private sports club membership. The stock market was correcting again due to the war in Iran, oil and inflation had shot up, and I figured it was time to cut expenses and simplify. The membership was $185 a month. On top of that I paid $25 per guest […]

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