Wednesday, December 7, 2022
There’s nothing like being stuffed into a tin can for eight hours to make you think about the future. The tin can I’m referring to is a United flight I took from LA to NYC.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
The history of tequila goes back two thousand years. That’s when the Aztec Indians figured out how to ferment juice from the blue agave plant.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Peter Lynch was a rock-star investor. During his thirteen years at the helm of Fidelity’s Magellan Fund, he racked up 29% annual returns.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
“Maybe it’s your bony elbows,” said my wife. She was busy throwing out a bunch of my sweaters, just like she does every fall.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Avatar, James Cameron’s epic science-fiction movie, was released in 2009. It was meant to be in theaters ten years earlier.
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “Science and Technology Directorate” (S&T) Group recently developed something new: A robotic arm that could defuse a bomb.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
My wife’s family is from a small town on the coast of Maine called Brunswick.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Bruce Springsteen, Charlie’s Angels, and the Boston Celtics. Those were the posters that covered the walls of my room when I was a teenager.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Imagine being able to hop into a time machine and head back to 1996, the dawn of the Internet. You’d be able to pick up Apple stock when it was trading at just $0.25 a share… Or shares of Amazon when it was trading at just $1.50 a share.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Are the rich really so different from everyone else? After all, we all put on our pants one leg at a time.