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The Best Financial Advice I've Ever Gotten Late in 2024, my financial advisor, Jay Dixon, gave me some of the best financial advice I have ever received. It was not a private equity play. It was not about asset allocation. It was not about taking advantage of some...
To Sell Is Human – Because Habit Is Human
Habit is Human In the ongoing exploration of the profound truth that "To Sell is Human," the concept of sales is deeply intertwined with love, connection, and the adventurous pursuit of the highest good, or Summum Bonum. True sales is characterized as a curious,...
To Sell is Human – Part 3. Fear is Human
To Sell Is Human - Because To Fear Is Human In our ongoing journey to understand the profound truth that "To Sell is Human," we've explored how selling is fundamentally about connection, service, negotiation, and the adventurous pursuit of the highest good, or Summum...
Big is Not Beautiful: The Budget Bill is Grand is Size but Grotesque in Guise
Big is Not Beautiful: The Fed Budget Bill is Grand in Size but Grotesque in Guise While the most obvious element of the enabling nanny state is the vociferous anti-DOGE crowd, perhaps the more insidious element of the constituent-devouring political class are leaders...
To Sell is Human – Part 2: The Call to Adventure
To Sell is Human - Part 2: The Call to Adventure The ancient echoes of adventure reverberate through the ages. Just as Odysseus heard the call to leave the familiar shores of Ithaca and brave the wine-dark sea, facing monstrous challenges and seductive temptations in...
The Mericans’ Costly Lesson – Part 2: Why the Nanny Needs to Go
The Mericans' Costly Lesson - Part 2: Why the Nanny Needs to GoLet’s connect our Merican family allegory from my last post to reality.It has become evident that the nanny state, the overprotective, disempowering, enabling, constituent-devouring political class, has...
The Mericans’ Costly Lesson: Losing Control of the Household
The Mericans are a familiar family. Elon and Amy met in college, and after Amy completed grad school, they got married and began to build a life together. The newlyweds enjoyed a few years as DINKs - double income no kids - with travel, eating out, nice cars, and new...
To Sell is Human: Part 1 – Love
To sell is human because meaningful connection, service - love is human. Love is not primarily a feeling. Love in its most powerful form is a verb, it is active. To love someone is to take loving actions toward them, to serve, to honor, to anticipate need, to put...
To Sell is Human
I finished Daniel Pink’s book “To Sell is Human” a month ago. For me, the best part of the book, the thing that has stuck with me, is simply the title: “To Sell is Human”—a profound revelation. Indeed, in our human experience, we are all selling or being sold, moving...
Toothbrush Mustaches and the Violent Exchange of Ideas
The moderates have set a big tent - something about “a place for the great debate.” Look at them in there with their toothbrush mustaches and their violent exchange of ideas. Who are they to think for themselves? This is unsafe. Where are their...