In business, truth is a hard thing to find. The King and Queen of Spain told Christopher Columbus they would meet his request of Knighthood and a 10% royalty on all he had found in the new world. Ferdinand and Isabella were educated enough to know Columbus wouldn’t sail off the end of the earth. […]
Patriot Day September 11 2001
Four months and 3 days prior to this date, I took early retirement from Merrill Lynch after decades of leadership to discover and correct market misalignment’s my own way. Orchestrating an alliance of other Wall Street and Business Executives I founded a broker-dealer advisory firm that drove revenue & alpha performance during a time the […]
Dancing to a Heartbeat
For fear your grace should fall. […]
Myself in Others
The surfing life, I discovered against the backdrop of the city, is a venerable one. —Ed Thompson While visiting in Los Angeles one summer, I invited my niece Brooke to lunch. She was bright, beautiful, and had a law degree but was employed as a retail clerk. She was making even less than I did […]
From Chapter 6
Inner Compass As darkness falls, I can hear them telling stories. The scent of cigarettes. There’s danger in the air. —Alejandro Escovedo It makes no difference who came before whom. All Americans are immigrants. Everyone can trace their starting roots in this county—even the homo sapiens who crossed the Bering Strait during an […]
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