November 2018
14 articles published this month.
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Notes From My Journal
Wilderness Man Survives Again
Thursday, November 29, 2018 Delray Beach, Florida.- After a frenetic week with the extended family in Nicaragua, I was in need of rest. The last thing I wanted to do when we arrived at Miami Airport last…
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Steve Jobs on “Why Companies Fail
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Sao Paulo.- I’m in Brazil, catching up on email before I get to work – and I came across a video by Steve Jobs that Sean MacIntyre sent me. (See the link to the video, below.) It’s…
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From My Work-in-Progress Basket
Odds Stacked Against You? Stop Bitching and Get to Work!
November 24, 2018 Nicaragua.- NP believes that when parents hit their seventies they should start giving away their assets to their children as fast as they can. “Making them wait till you die is…
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Thanksgiving Morning in Nicaragua
Thursday, November 22, 2018 This year’s to Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade featured a musical vignette from Prom, a new Broadway play that opened to great reviews. My niece, Izzy McCalla has a leading role in…
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I’m back at Rancho Santana for Thanksgiving week…
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Nicaragua - It’s a beautiful time to be here. The ocean is steel blue and the hills are myriads of green. Because of the recent political troubles, I was initially reluctant to bring…
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The One and Only Secret to a Successful Marriage?
Saturday, November 17, 2018 Delray Beach, FL.- Andy and I were in our late 20s and beginning our careers in journalism. Elka was in her late 30s, working part-time as an accountant for our small publishing…
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From My Work-in-Progress Basket
Breaking Big: The “Ready-Fire-Aim” Strategy That Took One Company From $8 Million to More Than $1 Billion — November 15, 2018
Thursday, November 15, 2018 Chapter 1, Part 1 The 5 Stages of Entrepreneurial Business Growth Delray Beach, FL.- For the first half of my business career, I spent almost all of my time doing. I was an…
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Principles of Wealth #22
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 The efficient market hypothesis is bogus. The stock market, its sectors, and its individual stocks are often mispriced. But that doesn’t mean speculating on those errors makes sense…
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How Never to Begin a Blog Post, or… The Most Important Secret of Storytelling
Sunday, November 11, 2018 Delray Beach, Florida.- Should I tell him? Will he listen? Will he feel I’m butting in? I had just read a company blog post from a colleague. It was an important post. And he was…
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More on Micro-Cultures, Financial Success, and the “Nature vs. Nurture” Question
Friday, November 9, 2018 Delray Beach, Florida.- On October 18, I posted an essay www.markford.net/success-in-life-its-all-about-micro-culture about the relationship between success in life and something I…
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Tribalism and the Mid-term Elections
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Delray Beach, Florida.- Milo Yiannopoulos, the social critic and provocateur, gets into trouble with both the far right and the far left for mixing his intelligent insights and…
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A “Simple Question” With a “That Depends” Answer
Monday, November 5, 2018 Delray Beach, Florida.- “I have a simple question,” RS wrote. “How can you calculate the odds for losing your money before you start a business or invest your capital? I’ve read what…
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Life Is Good… How Did I Get So Lucky?
Saturday, November 3, 2018 New York City.- I’m at Club Macanudo on 63rd Street, in between Park and Madison in NYC. It’s a stately, turn-of-last century townhouse, not unlike Agora’s offices in Baltimore. The…
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White Male Privilege: Where Do You Stand on the Social Justice Scale?
Thursday, November 1, 2018 New York City.- “That’s because you are a privileged white male,” she said. She was explaining why my perspective on… I don’t remember what… was wrong. Not just wrong, but invalid…
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