October 2008
18 posts
“Today the fall came to San Francisco. Heaters are running warm and candles...”
A Book About How to Navigate Life
I’m thinking about writing a book about how to leverage aggregated wisdoms, and conventional truths and lies to navigate life successfully. It’s just an idea among many but the subject has always fascinated me.
How do you design a successful life that will deliver on your overall goals and ambitions? It’s as easy to just let life happen as it is to get stuck in a dead end. How...
A Roadmap For The Future
I think we are at the end of the old world and in the beginning of the new world. It’s not just McCain versus Obama; it’s wide-spread change from the industrial to the awareness society. I think that all the new emerging technologies and attitudes - clean food and tech, globalization, democratization, networks, transparency et cetera - are all coming together into a new paradigm.
The...
My 7th Recession
My first recession I don’t remember but my second I do. I started first grade when the oil crisis hit Europe like the plague. The third and fourth were hardly noticeable since we were all shock resistant at that time. And being a teenager there were more important things than business cycles (skateboarding and looking rad).
The fifth recession happen after the glorious 80s right halfway...
“I could never live in the suburbs. The whole... →
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The revised bailout plan
Looks like Paulson & Co are rethinking buying toxic assets in favor of buying equity as I argued in my post from September 29.
Soros explains it best (as usual): “Instead of just purchasing troubled assets the bulk of the funds ought to be used to recapitalise the banking system. Funds injected at the equity level are more high-powered than funds used at the balance sheet level by a...
Freshbooks.com
The world is becoming more networked and less corporate. A web application that supports this trend is Freshbooks. It’s a service that helps the minipreneur with invoicing (email and snail mail), keeping track of expenses and time manage projects.
But your clients can also send you online payments and by year end you can download all data for all the fun that is taxation.
I signed up this...
Market: Who thought?
Man, the last few weeks has been brutal for any long in the market despite a few snap-back rallies. Who would have thought that AAPL would trade at $100 (no debt - $21BN in cash), RIMM at $60 ($7MM in debt - $1.5BN in cash) and GOOG at $380 (no debt - $13BN in cash)? The market is taking a brutal beating but we are getting closer to an intermediate capitulation and bear market rally… When is...
Gratefulness
In times like this - financial turbulence and uncertainty - it’s important to think about things that makes you grateful and remember that the best things in life are free (seriously). I’m grateful for:
Married to the most beautiful and awesome woman in the world.
Living in the most beautiful city in the world.
My insanely great cooking skills (I know, I know…).
Loving my...