Flipping Off The “Average Return”
Unmet expectations cause us distress. At times we lose perspective. When things are going well, we bask in the warm sunshine of +20% returns. But when it temporarily and inevitably floods worst-case -30% returns, we forget there are seasons. Return seasons. Sorry,...
Understanding Poverty Can Help You Become Wealthy
What really keeps people in poverty? Is it the same self-destructive patterns that hold us back, whether we’re poor, middle class, or wealthy? Are we all really not that different? Isn’t a foundation of wealth built and lost in the day-in-day-out decision making...
Cutting Off 4 Fingers for a “Rule of Thumb”
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly—as that a sentence must never end with a particle—and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, I think: “Any fool can make a rule, And any fool will mind it.”...
The Best Advice You Never Received
So…What do you actually do for me? Before I launched MARGIN almost two years ago, an obsessive quest began: What were my peers really delivering to clients? Not just their marketed online services. Not just the lip service of their pitches. Not just their portfolio...