-Mentality – you cannot define your own success by the accumulation of your assets.

One might argue that Sam’s disregard for owning assets is a consequence of being surrounded by so many while growing up. I wonder, were my generation to lose its assets, whether his generation would devote itself to replenishing them. I’m also curious how much of Sam’s variable mentality will survive once he has the responsibility of children.

Somewhere in the world, someone from a developing country is spending their day translating Western voicemails into emails. I sincerely hope that this is more than human error, mine or theirs.

But it compelled me to watch Jefferies more closely, a company whose namesake and origin, unlike Morgan Stanley, had a pretty non illustrious past (for starters, I had never worked at an established firm that had only one name).

Walking, for me, is not about exercise. It's about wandering. It's about observing and reflecting. It's about having a call option on communication with the rest of the world. But the call option is mine not yours. The French, not surprisingly, uniquely have a verb for this-le flaneur.

Drop.io’s other fixed cost is development. I think of promotion in terms of marketing and customer acquisition costs. Sam thinks about exposing the blogs to your service and letting their audience promote or pan it. With that mentality, the one functionality you have to get right is product development. Drop.io is programmed exclusively in the most

Travel when you are young: Youthful unemployment is one of our most depressing economic phenomena. It seems patently unfair that, after years of academic exertion, graduates are deprived of rewarding employment But this economic reality, which shows no sign of abating in the Western World, has one profound advantage. It allows youth to reverse the

It’s somewhere between ironic and depressing to watch tour groups of senior citizens descend on remote geographies. It’s great that they now have the time to travel. It’s sad that they have most likely waited to do so until the end of their lives. What should have been inhaled with gusto when they were young is instead observed at a distance in

Let others do your marketing. In a world of perfect connectivity, it does not make a lot of sense to spend non-targeted marketing dollars. Put the money into the product and let the blogs do the marketing for you. That’s what my son has done with his highly successful drop.io.