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Our backpacking trip to South America in 5 minutes
This video means a lot to me. The best way, for me, to explain some of the feelings associated with the video is by sharing a message I wrote the day we were coming home from our 4.5 month adventure: Sitting on the plane right now coming home and the word I use to describe the feeling is […]
This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing […]
The New, New York?
We have talked before about Jim Rogers as a person who is not afraid to “think differently.” As a young adult he co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros. After a few years of living in New York City, he realized that he wanted more out of his life and went on his first trip […]