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Jan
02
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort's Catching the Wolf of Wall Street is about all the crazy stories that never made it to the movie. Belfort & the gang have been doing some things that were so out of order that Scorsese decided to exclude them for being too crazy to be true.
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Dec
31
Five things for 2022
Try Veri Continous Glucose Monitor, Oura ring sleep tracker, Tanita scale, F45 functional training, and apply some Life Design!
5 min read
Dec
27
Ode to the craft
I must learn not to hurry with my writing. At times, I find myself anxious to finish, to hit publish,
3 min read
Nov
04
Five Points newsletter #41
100 ways to live to 100 and contrast that with Eating, drinking, and smoking like Winston Churchill.
3 min read
Nov
01
The inequality rant
Karoshi vs. Great Resignation; unpaid heating bills vs. $36B in a day. Zoom fatigue and suicide.
3 min read
Oct
27
Five Points newsletter #40
Barefoot 21K, #ChallengeNOTaccepted; how Denmark fixed McDonald’s; Pedestrians being dumb for 10 minutes straight.
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Oct
20
Five Points #39
#FivePoints newsletter was on a longer break, a hiatus, or a sabbatical if you like. I've been procrastinating on getting
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Oct
17
#ChallengeAccepted book: delayed
#ChallengeAccepted is a guide, a handbook for helping people navigate their ways from the first-time manager to a leader, written in a way to become that buddy we all need(ed) but were afraid to ask.
4 min read
Sep
21
The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
At the start of the pandemic of 2020, I read Michael Finkel’s book, The Stranger in the Woods, The
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Sep
14
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Come for the story, walk away with the meaning of lifeViktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of those
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