Many of us have heard the declaration, “If they can put a man on the moon then they can . . .”  finished with any number of wishful endings.  Well, the brilliance of mankind has once again manifested, in this case in the invention of a bidet and toilet seat in one fabulously fresh, life… Continue Reading

The general dissatisfaction that accompanies my burning desire to be successful means I often lose sight of the fact that some pretty amazing stuff happens around me. A few weeks ago my friend, entrepreneur Frank Giustra invited me to lunch with the Dalai Lama. As a well known business leader, Frank gets roped into a… Continue Reading

My daughter is reading my favorite book. “I’m on page 112,” she says, “of The Choose Yourself Stories”. This is my collection of more personal stories about my life. I never marketed it. Just put it out there. But she found it. Now she has a lot of questions like, “Why did you always want… Continue Reading

Danica Patrick is the newest senior editor for  The Players’ Tribune, and founding publisher Derek Jeter has chosen wisely.  Jeter’s new media venture isn’t exactly news, since the site went live a week ago Wednesday, just three days after the legendary shortstop retired. But yesterday’s post by the NASCAR beauty is pretty much what Jeter promised his… Continue Reading

I have an amazing tool/app that makes my work 100x more productive. It’s called a phone. That sounds sarcastic. I’m not being sarcastic. It’s the truth. A lot of times people send me emails and then I forget about them or I never respond to them or I respond to them weeks later. I now… Continue Reading

I joined it, I tried it, and I just don’t get what all the fuss is about. Here’s how it started:  I was noodling around on Facebook early last week, when something unusual jumped off the page at me.  It was an update on my newsfeed by my oldest son, Adam, referencing something called ‘Ello’.… Continue Reading

As we pulled up to the modest, narrow three story home in the Pearl District of Portland, I was apprehensive.  I’d never tried accommodation booked through Airbnb before, and I had no idea what to expect.  Climbing the steep stairs, we found the front door and rang the bell twice.  Just as we were concluding… Continue Reading

I hate to sound smug, but I’ve got a new iPhone 6, and I’m having a great time getting to know what’s fast becoming my new BFF. After managing to sell my old iPhone with a brand similar to Bank My Cell just before I got it, I was in dire need of it to… Continue Reading

You see the babes in the picture just above? They are my 82 year old mother, Maureen, alongside her 100 year old mother, Dorothy. The picture was taken last weekend at a family party to celebrate Dorothy’s 100th birthday, an event we have all been looking forward to. And it was quite a party. The… Continue Reading

$70 million was a lot of money for me at the time. And I couldn’t sleep at night until I gave back every dollar to the people who gave it to me. I was running the sort of fund where people gave me money and then I invested it in other funds. The only problem… Continue Reading

On the fence about global warming? Me too, and who wouldn’t be, given the voluminous amount of material published by disbelievers of what Al Gore termed his ‘inconvenient truth’. However, like Al Gore or not, if you look at the scientific data on global warming, presented from numerous angles by scientists without bias, it’s hard… Continue Reading

There’s a well known cycle of family business:  the first generation makes it, the second generation spends it, and the third generation blows it.  Naturally there are exceptions, but 70% of family businesses never even make it to the second generation, let alone the third.  And I’ve got a solution for this tragic trend of… Continue Reading

“This is a three billion dollar class action lawsuit. In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street.” – Karen Crowder, Michael Clayton You’ve heard of the “overnight success.” One thing anyone who has been labelled… Continue Reading

In 2002 I was driving to a hedge fund manager’s house to hopefully raise money from him. I was two hours late. This was pre-GPS and I had no cell phone. I was totally lost. If you’ve never driven around Connecticut you need to know one thing: all the roads are parallel and they all… Continue Reading

Time is not money. All the slick guys in their suits, peppering their lingo with “time is money!” Hurry! Money! It’s not true. I feel bad for them. Cheapening their time like that. I know this because I’m the master at losing money. I have very clever ways of making my money explode into dust.… Continue Reading