Perhaps my favourite Mark Twain quote is one which I’m currently living through as my two sons enter adulthood and our relationship goes from a father/son one to a different standing. Always the wit, Twain reportedly commented that: When…

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Living in the country, our local post shop cum corner store is something of a centre of commerce. It’s not open many hours a day, but it’s a haven for checking ones mail (obviously) buying some emergency groceries or…

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I have Jewish heritage and while that brings a bunch of negative impacts, it also comes with a few benefits. One of those benefits is a divine right to tell Jewish jokes without the fear of being accused of…

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It’s amazing how much the cultural points of ones youth, when seen through the wispy passage of time, make fantastic life lessons to pass on to another generation. Perhaps it’s simply a function of age and sentimentality, but the…

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My relationship with my sons is, thankfully, incredibly strong. But, like many other parents, my progeny has a history of diagnosing their father as a simpleton whose IQ is significantly less than his age. My sons are now young…

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In my youth I was a bit of a fan of Bible stories. Not for religious reasons, mind, but simply because they strike me as being interesting historical vignettes that are sometimes applicable to modern situations. One I particularly…

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My introduction to business was fairly prosaic. Thirty years ago a triumvirate of largely unemployable dirtbags who liked to spend their time mountain biking, climbing and tramping came together to build what was then the very nascent idea of…

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Like many individuals of a certain age, some of the unrecoverable hours from my teenage years were wasted (some might say invested) watching a boyish Tom Cruise feel his need for speed as Maverick in Top Gun. Having that…

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I’m an aged sort of a chap. As such I have somewhat traditional views about how to achieve things. Take for example the building of financial freedom for an individual. My perspective is that this is done over time…

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