For those who are 55+, if you could go back and re-live your 30s/40s again -- young kids, demanding career, stretched thin -- how would you change how you spent your time and attention, and why?

For those who are 55+, if you could go back and re-live your 30s/40s again -- young kids, demanding career, stretched thin -- how would you change how you spent your time and attention, and why?

Fruit of the hike

Fun to see friends make the news. Huge congrats to Jason Illian and the folks at Highmount Capital.

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A total eclipse is when the orbit of the moon crosses our view of the sun and covers the sun just so exactly that we still can see full corona (and therefore learn things about our sun and therefore other stars in the universe that we would otherwise not be able to discover). The…

The difference between totality and 94% totality is... significant. We still ate PopRocks and had fun though.
Permanent Equity

Since I need to hear this, perhaps you might as well...

Vocation is not an identity. You are not your work. You are not your job title.

You are not your performance. In good times, or bad. In wins, or losses. In big awards, or bankruptcy.

You are valuable. Nothing else needed.

It took Morgan Housel 3 years to release a second book. Will be hot off the presses Capital Camp …

Obvious, but under-appreciated: If you'd like to do a lot of something, you have to do one of that something first. And, that first thing has to work.

Don't try to run a marathon, try a mile.
Don't try to build a holdco, buy a business.

Perform first to earn the bigger pursuit.

Couple years ago I created a daily reminder of what is good, right, true, and healthy, which I continue to rework often. It has been one of the more meaningful changes I've made.

Try one for yourself.

'The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.' -Stephen R. Covey

Obligatory Easter post