Nicaragua had a serious earthquake in the 60s. US officials, in an effort to help, sent an enormous quantity of wheat to feed the people. Sounds good, right? Unfortunately, earthquakes don’t damage wheat fields. Over the next two years, the farmers of Nicaragua saw their agriculture businesses destroyed.
Be careful when a politician says “let’s pass a regulation to fix…”.
I grew up in poverty. My dad was an assistant pastor of a small church in a poor area making marginal income and my mom stayed at home to raise four boys. My grandparents are wealthy and showed me flashes of a much better life, and fortunately scooped me out of a bad situation when my parents lives fell apart when I was 14.… read more “Poverty and Business”
I liked the Paul Graham essay today that life is short.
Life is funny.
When you are an adolescent with hormones raging, all you can think about is finding a mate.
No one is interested much at that point as you don’t have much to offer.
So you buckle down and work hard and build yourself into a better person.
And you work and you work and you work.… read more “Life”
One of our newest clients is gloveworxUSA.com and our team did an awesome workout at their Santa Monica facility last week!
I am excited to see Jordan, Meghan, Josh, Clara, and Romy today as well as Uncle Jim and Sarah for our Christmas Eve dinner!
In the meantime, I am going to work on my web applications.
My new basketball team actually has practices… I went to the first one yesterday and got my butt kicked. The guys are all former low end college players or high end high school players, and I never even played in junior high! I couldn’t get a shot off; they blocked most of the garbage that I threw up.… read more “New Basketball Team”
I have realized that staying home and doing nothing is a recipe for depression for me. The more improvements I can make, the happier I am. I love to work on improving Coalition and improving myself mentally and physically and emotionally.