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Do something important in the new year:
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In It’s A Wonderful Life, what ultimately saves George Bailey from suicide by drowning is another man drowning. Sometimes the only thing that can distract us out of our own self-destructive behavior is the suffering of others, which means empathy and compassion are often the highest forms of “self care.”
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It is a terrible time to own a commercial property and be trying to lease it, and yet if you talk to anyone involved in the process of signing tenants to leases, you would never know. You would hear about all the tenants about to sign leases, the necessity for quick action before the vacancy–the
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Some advice you need falls into the category of: “I don’t know how to do this, can you help.” There’s a problem, one you may not even fully know how to articulate, and you need someone else to do the solution, because you don’t have the knowledge or experience or whatever. And some other advice
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The roads that were built in the 1930s as a result of the New Deal’s Public Works Administration were not the most technically complicated things. Sure, from a civil engineering standpoint there were problems to be solved and bridges to be built and techniques to invent to more efficiently build the roads. But I mean,
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During the height of the Soviet Union, one writer wrote that “The attractiveness of an article depends on the length of the queue.” Because you had to line up for everything, even the most basic necessities, it was common to join a line without knowing what was at the end of it. And in a
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Always work from the simple to the complex. And the funny thing is, the better you get at the simple, the more you realize you may not need complex at all, or at the very least your idea of necessary complexity has moved down the scale significantly. Most of the gains to be made in
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Invest for a reason. Make it a good one. Invest for a long time. A long time is much longer than one year. It’s probably 20 years at least. Don’t invest in what you know because what you “know” is mostly an illusion in the face of an uncertain future. Investing is not like coaching
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Etymology is great. Here are the top three definitions of the word “hack” in its verb form: It can serve as a noun or an adjective as well–a short dry cough for instance, or the descriptor of someone who does something poorly and purely for commercial gain. All in all, a very useful word, and
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In “Christmas with the Kranks” Luther turns Christmas into a math problem. “Skip Christmas and spend it on us for a change!” Math problems are important; life is full of them. But make sure the math problems are in service of your life and the lives of others, and not vice versa.
Meaningful Returns 