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Our approach is characterized by continuous learning and hard work. Herein are a handful of Addresses, Audio/Video Presentations, Articles, Books and White Papers that we found thought provoking.
Privacy and Security with General Michael V. Hayden
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Through the Valley with Colonel William Reeder, US Army Pilot, Vietnam POW
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Demographic Insights by Professor Stephen Mihm (University of Georgia)
Written by Stephen Mihm Shortly before Christmas, the U.S. Census Bureau put some coal in the nation’s holiday stocking. It released data highlighting a worrisome trend: The population grew a subdued 0.7 percent, the lowest rate of growth since the Great Depression years of 1936 and 1937. Declines in the birthrate and the slowing pace … Read More
China Bets on Sensitive U.S. Start-Ups, Worrying the Pentagon
By Paul Mozur and Jane Perlez March 22, 2017 HONG KONG — When the United States Air Force wanted help making military robots more perceptive, it turned to a Boston-based artificial intelligence start-up called Neurala. But when Neurala needed money, it got little response from the American military. So Neurala turned to China, landing an undisclosed … Read More
Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center
Mission: The Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center is a state-owned facility designed to promote modernization in cybersecurity technology for private and public industries through unique education, training, research, and practical applications. Vision: The Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center will be recognized as a world-class cyber range and training facility focused on developing the … Read More
Remembering A Hero
Written by Peggy Noonan What do I think about when I think about that day? The firemen who climbed “the stairway to Heaven” with 50, 60 pounds of gear. The people who called from Windows on the World and said: “I just want you to know I love you.” The men on the plane who … Read More
Byron Wien Discusses Lessons Learned in His First 80 Years
I was scheduled to speak about the world outlook at an investment conference recently and shortly before my time slot the conference organizer said the audience was more interested in what I had learned over the course of my career than what I had to say about the market. I jotted a few notes down … Read More
The Five Experiments
By Fernando del Pino December 2015 When I was kindly invited by our founder to make a presentation in our first meeting, I thought it would be interesting to bring out some global views on what I believe is a multi- generational decline of the Western civilization rather than talking about the very interesting but … Read More
Courage Under Fire By Admiral James Stockdale
Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior James Bond Stockdale I came to the philosophic life as a thirty-eight-year-old naval pilot in grad school at Stanford University. I had been in the navy for twenty years and scarcely ever out of a cockpit. In 1962, I began my second year of studying international … Read More
A History of Global Living Conditions in 5 Charts
A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden 10% thought things are getting better, in the US they were only 6%, and in Germany only 4%. Very few people think that the world is getting better. What is … Read More
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
Charles Munger – USC Business School I’m going to play a minor trick on you today because the subject of my talk is the art of stock picking as a subdivision of the art of worldly wisdom. That enables me to start talking about worldly wisdom—a much broader topic that interests me because I think … Read More
Discipline, Leadership, and Overcoming
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Interview with General Stanley McChrystal
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Admiral William McRaven’s 2014 Commencement Address
Admiral William McRaven (USN, Retired) 2014 Commencement Address University of Texas at Austin President Powers, Provost Fenves, Deans, members of the faculty, family and friends and most importantly, the class of 2014. Congratulations on your achievement. It’s been almost 37 years to the day that I graduated from UT. I remember a lot of things … Read More
Bud Day Obituary – What A Hero Looks Like
Bud Day was perhaps the bravest of the brave at the Hanoi Hilton. After serving as a U.S. Marine in World War II, a normal man might have concluded that he had done more than his share of military service. And anyone still alive after his parachute failed to open upon ejection from an Air … Read More
Mike Pence’s Address on the Presidency
September 20, 2010 President and Mrs. Arnn, Mr. John Cervini, Mr. David Bobb, Elliot Gaiser, College Republicans and each and every one of the faculty and students of Hillsdale College here today…. As I am sure you know, honor is what allows us to do what is right despite the cost. Even greater honor is … Read More
William Deresiewicz’s Solitude and Leadership
The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. My title must seem like a contradiction. What can solitude have to do with leadership? Solitude means being alone, and leadership necessitates the presence of others—the people you’re leading. When we think about leadership … Read More
Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement Address
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. … Read More
David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address to Kenyon College
Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address – May 21, 2005 Written and Delivered by David Foster Wallace (If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I’d advise you to go ahead, because I’m sure going to. In fact I’m gonna [mumbles while pulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].) Greetings [“parents”?] … Read More
Courage Under Fire By Peggy Noonan
Forgive me. I’m going to return to a story that has been well documented the past few weeks, and I ask your indulgence. So much has been happening, there are so many things to say, and yet my mind will not leave one thing: the firemen, and what they did. Although their heroism has been … Read More
President Ronald Reagan’s Address on the Anniversary of D-Day
President Ronald Reagan – On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day Pointe du Hoc – Normandy, France 6 June 1984 We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For 4 long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations … Read More
President John F. Kennedy’s Decision to go to the Moon Address at Rice University
President Pitzer, Mr. Vice President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen: I appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor, and I will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief. I am delighted to be here, and … Read More
Churchill’s Report to the House of Commons
Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s Report to the House of Commons 4 June 1940 From the moment that the French defenses at Sedan and on the Meuse were broken at the end of the second week of May, only a rapid retreat to Amiens and the south could have saved the British and French Armies who … Read More
Lou Gehrig’s Farewell to Baseball Address
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. … Read More
Citizenship in a Republic by Theodore Rosevelt
CITIZENSHIP IN A REPUBLIC Theodore Roosevelt Speech delivered at the Sorbonne Paris, France April 23, 1910 The Famous Quote: “The Man In The Arena” It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit … Read More
President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. … Read More