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The String (opens the original)
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There’s a series of thoughts I’ve been trying to articulate for years now. I tried to get there in The Point of Legacy but there’s much more to it. Readers know I like to talk about wealth, status, legacy... and the tension between living a full life today versus sacrificing today for some tomorrow which may never arrive. This relates to those themes, but explores something else... a sort of malaise I think a lot of people feel but can’t name.The ailment…My point begins with two assumptions.#1 ̵
Chapter 16: Blackhole (February 2020) (opens the original)
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February 2020. I spent an early Saturday morning at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. I was watching my youngest brother compete in a paddle tennis tournament while club members skeet-shot in front of the clubhouse next to a small bonfire. I remember desperately searching for a cup of coffee. Thankfully someone brought a Dunkin’ Box O’ Joe. Later that afternoon I went suit shopping. Then another Rogue Dead Guy that evening. Read more
Chapter 16: Blackhole (January) (opens the original)
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Author’s Note to this chapter here.The decision. Here we go… Read more
Did you see the gorilla? (opens the original)
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This is dense, but all these thoughts were burning a hole in my head, so here goes...There are two things in the realm of psychology that I’ve wondered about for a long time… and these two ideas show up often in my philosophical and life musings. But I never really looked into whether there was any actual academic or scientific literature about them… until now.The first is the idea that human beings must be biologically wired to ignore the prospect of our own mortality… that there must be some p
The Point of Legacy (opens the original)
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One of the reasons I love work, ambition, and financial legacy building topics is that my brothers and I are sort of poster children for how wealth can dissipate over generations for all sorts of reasons... from tragedies to illness to mismanagement to war to simple dilution due to the sheer number of descendants.This is by no means rare, but what makes our situation a little less common is that several of our family branches have a story that involved substantial financial or cultural wealth...
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