I remember watching CNBC and seeing T. Boone Pickens coming on during the Oil Boom and discussing how the days of $70 a barrel oil was a new reality that we should be getting used to. As demand was rising in China and around the world it was starting to... Continue reading

Quote of the day from James Clear that simply says that those who thrive and are the absolute best in their industry don't follow others but find their own path. Most of the time this path is obscure. Think Steve Jobs and his inventions or Edison or Einstein.. "If you... Continue reading

As per our last series of Florida Man and Woman Stories here is a full year of headlines. Florida Woman DATE TITLE LINK Florida Woman January 1, 2019 Woman Pulled From Submerged Car Just in Time https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2019/01/01/tampa-woman-rescued-from-ditch-after-interstate-4-crash Florida Woman January 2, 2019 Florida woman claims she's God, rides tricycle https://961kiss.iheart.com/featured/the-morning-freak-show/content/2019-01-02-florida-woman-claims-shes-god-rides-tricycle/... Continue reading

Practice makes perfect and arguably the most intelligent person alive is showcasing that here. It's Bill Gates in Omaha, Nebraska with Warren Buffet working at a Dairy Queen. Besides it being comical for a couple of laughs you should also note that it showcases that Practice Makes Perfect and even... Continue reading

Interesting Reads for the week: http://nautil.us/issue/69/patterns/gustav-klimt-in-the-brain-lab https://thewalrus.ca/is-the-world-getting-better-or-worse/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2019/02/19/the-greatest-investor-youve-never-heard-of-an-optometrist-who-beat-the-odds-to-become-a-billionaire/#76fc311022e8 Continue reading

Was just told about the Pablo Picasso story creating a drawing for a fan in merely minutes and then asking for the equivalent of $500,000 in dollars today. She was offended and said but why would I ever pay that much when it took you only minutes to do? The... Continue reading

As I was an early adopoter to the current 3D printing Boom and growth that we've been seeing over the last decade especially with the growth and success of Protos Eyewear the first consumer grade 3D printed eyewear that also is completely customizable based on the metrics of your face... Continue reading

Certain trends and innovations that we can apply can not only improve conditions that we thought were almost irreversible. Similar to the recent bookmark I made about Plastics being recycled and how this would create a conglomerate bigger than Apple & Google combined. The information below I'm bookmarking courtesy of... Continue reading

Great story from Institutional investor on how A.I. and machine learning scraping search results and social media is a way to determine trends and future retail products to invest in. Another segment that CircleUp is missing is utilizing retail sites and trends on there as well to find hot products.... Continue reading

This past years winner from The Royal statistical society was for a creative number was for 90.5% thats the amount of plastic that can be recycled in the world to create a multi-trillion dollar company. The 90.5% is the amount of plastic that is currently unrecycled. Sustainable companies that positively... Continue reading

Below is a clip which is coined as one of the best quotes ever from one of the worst movies ever. Street Fighter where M. Bison talks about his incoherence to Chung Liu's most fateful day. In the scene above "I'm sorry I don't remember any of it.. You don't... Continue reading

In the next 5 to 10 years we will start to see the re-emergence of Dinosaurs in our planet. What affects and how this will work over the long run will be one that I'm excited to see. The Wolly mammoth is another species that is being re-born into our... Continue reading

Seth Klarman a hedge fund manager from the Boston, Massachusetts area that I have admired for years and author of one of my favorite finance books "Margin of Safety" has a great quote in a recent Harvard Business School speech. The quote is "A big part of leadership is deciding,... Continue reading

While the crisis of World War 2 is not an apples to apples comparison by any means the future hopefully will reveal the unsung heroes like Chiune Sugihara who was recently re-honored in a nice NY Times piece seen here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/sugihara-moral-heroism-refugees.html Some excerpts from the piece: “heroic imagination,” a focus... Continue reading

As any millenial remembers the Simpsons being one of the biggest parts of our lives as far as entertainment goes we can also embrace a day when the Simpsons far past it's prime years may no longer really be the Simpsons as they start to kill off characters. The Guardian... Continue reading

Miami commissioners have said no to renewing Ultra Music Festivals Bayfront Park location earlier today. The only comment on potential alternative locations was the Hard Rock Stadium which is quite far from the usual Downtown Miami location. If they would want to move the location that far away then here... Continue reading

For the years 2016 and 2017 I was lucky enough to be a special guest on Night Owl Radio the radio show that plays on Friday nights @ 9:00 PM Eastern and 6:00 PM Pacific for those who are Insomniac fans this is a great show with a diverse set... Continue reading

Myers-Briggs personality type test results come out as an ESTP. Continue reading

Was really interesting to find out that New Mexico has an event that goes back to the 1700's for Fiestas de Santa Fe. It's where a man is burned similar to the "Burning of the Man" at Black Rock Desert for the annual Labor Day Week counter culture event Burning... Continue reading

Stories that seem almost too good to be true that would make for a great film would certainly be the Babani Sissoko film. This is the story of the man from West Africa who used his black magic skills to get a middle eastern bank to give him over $200... Continue reading

One of the few commonalities you will notice anywhere in the world is that the international airport terminals look and feel the same. The domestic terminals however do not have the same standards across the world but rather tend to reflect the local culture of the area. From the Scoreboard... Continue reading

Apperion has created some graphs to display how innovation and inventions can impact us globally saving billions of lives. To say that we're living in the best of times would be correct if you look at life expectancy globally. In the late 1900's Africa and the former USSR declined sharply... Continue reading

Enjoy the spring weather of May and remember this quote from DJ AM: "Starve the ego. Feed your soul" Continue reading

Batteries are not just for charging and moving us around in our cars in the future. We're going to be using that stored energy and putting it back into the grid and fueling our homes electricity in the future with this technology. While this seems like it's quite far away... Continue reading

Steven Hawking a true legend has passed away and one of the smartest individuals alive if not the smartest. His work will forever be ingrained in our society and some have said his disability gave him an advantage to learn even more and think in unique ways. Continue reading