Some Twitter Thoughts

Now that twitter seems to be a media darling and an acquisition target, I thought I would share some of my observations. 1. Tweets are the blog posts you thought about writing, but didn’t feel they had enough substance 2. Twitterers are older. Myspace started around music and students. Facebook started around college students. Twitter…

Read More

Hedge Fund Post Revisited

I posted a warning almost 2 years about Hedge Fund IPOs and the risk of leveraging. With the market skyrocketing back up and never seemingly going down, I wanted to re post some reminders of just how I believe the market works. Agree or disagree, its up to you. This post is from June of…

Read More

A Note to Newspapers

I hate getting an envelope every however many weeks asking me to pay for my newspaper.  With that envelope comes the obligation to either write a check or find some cash. But it also comes with the uneasiness of deciding how much of a tip to leave the paperboy.  Of course these days, at least…

Read More

The Problem with the Stock Market

We had a bear market. We still may be in a bear market. We will have bear market rallies. We will have pullbacks. Buy on the pullbacks.  The market will definitely be up in a few years. Thats all we all know. Everyone. From Warren Buffet on down. No one knows more. No one knows…

Read More

Success & Motivation

Every year or two I like to repost some “classic” posts. At least classic in the sense that they are the most viewed and most personal to me.  So here you go. Success and Motivation, Part 1 Apr 23rd 2004 9:37AM Success and Motivation I did it too. I drove by big houses and would wonder…

Read More