Archive for the 'Life Happens' Category

So, this is another personal post. Do pretend you care just a little please.
It’s coming around to almost two weeks that I have moved my family to California’s Bay Area. To be more precise, my family is my wife, two little kids, and mom in law (let’s leave the jokes aside okay).
After being about 18 [...]

Consider this:

The price of oil jumped from $117 to $120 within the last 24 hours or so.
Home values around San Francisco Bay area have dropped by over 10% in the last year. In other parts of the country even much much more than that.
Japan ran out of butter, among other things coming up.
Sam’s Club, the [...]

The Daily Mail has a great recap of some points in a piece titled Why China is the REAL master of the universe.
Take off those pink tainted sunglasses and breathe that info in. Some excerpts:
The truth is that we are masters of the world no more.
The global power shift from the West to the [...]

It has been an incredibly busy few weeks. Some of you recall that last week I went to Elite Retreat.
I don’t have that many impressions about the Elite Retreat itself. It means different things to different people.
I do however have impressions about my time there, the experience of my trip, and the kind of things [...]

In about two weeks I am going to San Francisco to attend Elite Retreat. No it’s not a vacation, although when you are working for yourself it often tends to feel this way (except when doing the books).
Elite Retreat is a meetup of a small group of entrepreneurs with an excellent line up of hosts. These [...]

Some would say it’s already pouring in fact.
This via Umair, who never disappoints in puttings thoughts together concisely:
Guys, I’m going to write the Bear/macro situation in detail later. It’s really too depressing to dwell on at the moment.
Here’s the quick version. You will read a lot of complicated analyses today.
Some are very, very good. The real [...]

I didn’t have a topic staring at me today, and didn’t exactly have time to write up a reserved topic for later.
But I know that the reason blogging works for many online is that people are often interested in personal details. It’s not fun to read press releases, facts and people hiding behind corporate write-ups. No, it’s [...]

Here’s a snippet from Seth Godin’s post on “the forces of mediocrity“:
There’s a myth that all you need to do is outline your vision and prove it’s right—then, quite suddenly, people will line up and support you.
In fact, the opposite is true. Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you [...]