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Stop Waiting to Feel Ready

I know a ton of people reading this will relate to what I’m talking about: starting something that feels completely daunting. So here’s another blog about my new YouTube channel, I Learned It on a Podcast—partly because I desperately need viewers, but mostly because this episode hit me hard.” “For

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The Color of Law

It’s been 150 years since the end of the Civil War and 50 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Act. However we still

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The “What if” Question

I have spent my entire business life identifying price anomalies and taking advantage of them to make money. “Buy low, sell high” is my secular

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Tools of Justice

It’s the American Horatio Alger story. Invent the next Xerox machine and get rich. Or get screwed. Dan Brown was a smart Irish kid from

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47 Years

Today is my 47th wedding anniversary. “So what?” you may say. But if you have some curiosity about the marriage of a blogging trader in

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Feeling Steady?

I talk to clients in the machining business almost every day. I often ask the perfunctory question, “How’s business?” and I usually get the perfunctory

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