Burnout’s cause isn’t what we think it is. According to Merriam-Webster, burnout is “A state of physical or emotional exhaustion that results from prolonged stress or frustration. It can also be defined as a complete depletion of energy or strength.”
What I told my boss at Farmer’s Insurance, and what you’ll see through the rest of my career in the highest of high stress environments, is that burnout, that feeling of hopelessness, is not caused by overwork or stress. Even at my highest-visibility job, running the #1 fund in the world, I wasn’t burned out.
You need to downshift to reach massive dreams. What got you here won’t get you to $100 Million.
I made my hedge fund boss over $100M personally on that ONE trade. But I missed my move.
Grow the most valuable and underestimated form of leverage: your personal leverage. Learn how to grow your personal leverage in your career, health, and love.
What are the top frameworks and strategies of pro athletes that you can use to work out more efficiently and safely, getting more benefits for less time invested?
How to make $100 in 3 steps: start early, get ownership, and keep going.
Moonshots mean you will avoid thinking small. Go for your dreams and dream big. Moonshot your career.
Health is your most important resource for going after big wealth. Here’s how to build your healthy foundation when you are time-crunched.
Setting huge goals is the first step to crushing your imposter syndrome, because big goals start with self-belief. Here’s how to set those goals and instill self-belief.
How I changed careers and became a fund manager with zero relevant experience in under 5 years. How I would do it now.
Founders are raising money every day. Even in bear markets. Even in recessions. Even with inflation. Here’s how.
How to get it all done without burning out. Learn the process that helped me be world or nationally ranked in 3 sports while working 80-100 hour weeks on Wall Street. How you can build a healthy base, find leverage, and create systems.
Hiring a head of marketing has changed. Look in the trenches for those who are battling the algorithms. Leverage the learnings of the creator economy, and add strategic elements over time.
How to survive and find buried treasure in your first two (grunt) years as an investment banker
Break into Wall Street Even if You Miss Some Onramps
Real Wealth Arc: How networking makes investors lucky. You see people on Twitter with lists of successful private investments. How did they get so lucky? How can you?
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Money is heat-seeking. This principle drives momentum investing. Ignore it, or worse, fight it at your peril.
A 6 month COO at an earlier stage will increase your probability of success, build alignment and make scaling smoother.
It appears we are heading into recession, yet many who run businesses tell me things are fine.
Investor focus turned to inflation and the Fed, and we were dealt a twist in the form of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank's failure) and it's implications for regional banks as a whole.
Credit cycles drive economic cycles, and bonds' relation to the current banking crisis. Know bonds and you can read the tea leaves for the economy, markets, and our collective financial future.
Risk travels through markets. When the economic cycle's tide goes out (the economy weakens), frauds are exposed like dead fish on the shore.
Today the markets are in that pre-earnings month lull. Bear markets and regulatory clampdowns, where are the changing tides today?
How do you know when you have passed the final bear market bottom and started a new bull market?
Why Bull Markets NEED bad news. The psychology of climbing a wall of worry. Is this bear market over yet?
Know when investing professionals buy stocks to avoid buying at the wrong time and losing.
Forecasts are always wrong. Don’t give up. Instead, learn the value of making a forecast and measuring against it.
The Elephant in the room is that we are headed for a Hard Landing while continually hearing estimates for a soft landing. This serves the powers that be, but not you and me for our planning.
How to navigate recessions without getting caught up in fearmongering control tactics of marketers.
Could we have seen FTX coming? Why do these things keep happening? How to navigate the bear market going forward.
Reaching market capitulation is like going through the five stages of grief. Here are some landmarks to guide you in recognizing where we are.
Inflation is here. Recession is here. That’s stagflation which we haven’t seen since the 1970s. Some thoughts on how to navigate stagflation.
How to spot a market bottom: capitulation, bear market rallies and maggots under rocks. I go through my own experiences and argue that you too can spot these patterns.
Why have we gone 100 years with only Wall Street bankers building financial products? What do they know about our needs?
Imagine: Anyone -- no matter their race, gender, education, surname, place of origin -- anyone could build financial instruments, something that for over 100 years was only possible from the gatekeeper of Wall Street. Now, in Web3, we have the potential for true financial inclusion.
With Web3 Fabric, we can finally reach blockchain’s promise of safety AND inclusion. Join me in exploring what a Web3 Fabric would look like.
How the thousands of years old art of cryptography is helping us redesign incentive systems for how we transact, agree, earn create and identify ourselves. Next stop: Web 3.0.
Learn from great billionaire investors Elon Musk and Charlie Munger to improve your own investing strategy.
With the arrival of GPT-3, deep fakes are better than the real thing. Computers can write NY Times articles.
We need to rethink identity to be who we are physically, not what we know. Journey does this.
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Founders are raising money every day. Even in bear markets. Even in recessions. Even with inflation. Here’s how.
I’ve worked for 4 billionaires. How can you be Billionaire Big now to smooth your path to real wealth?