About a week ago I finished reading The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin. What a fantastic book! This book is a must read for anyone. Especially the ambitious.

Just as a little background, the author, Waitzkin was a multiple-time national chess champion and competed in multiple world championships. He was subject of the novel and movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer and had been a seemingly natural chess wizard since the age of nine. [click to continue...]

Is simplicity something we search for? Or is it right in front of us, staring at us every single day?

In my previous post, I discussed the idea of freeing our lives of excess so we can achieve true financial freedom.

Now, I would like to examine the essence of entrepreneurship and how we can learn from breaking the fundamentals of business down to its core. [click to continue...]

I am writing this post in the lovely country of Guatemala, the birthplace of my fiancee. I have spent the last week here for New Years and I will be spending one more week here before I go back home to New York.

If you ever visit Guatemala, the first thing you will notice is the hot and humid temperature, followed by an unmistakably sweet smell that envelops the whole country.

This is the burning of sugar cane–it is burnt both for ease of cutting and for enhanced flavor. This is done throughout the entire country, as this is Guatemala’s main export. [click to continue...]

Are you having the start-up blues? Is your new business not profitable yet and are you starting to reconsider employment?

There is very little immediate incentive to start a business. In the beginning stages, the pay is low or even non-existent and most of the labor and heavy lifting is being done by you and you alone.

While I have provided ways to measure success when you aren’t profitable yet, I haven’t explained ways you can cope with the fact that you aren’t going to make a lot of money in the beginning. [click to continue...]