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Tim Ferris’ Interview with General Stanley McChrystal
Tim Ferriss is a host of a popular podcast. In this week’s episode he interviews General Stanley McChrystal… Listen to Audio
The Five Experiments: Perspective from Fernando del Pino
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… Read More
Remembering A Hero: Welles Crowther
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
Discipline, Leadership, and Overcoming: Tim Ferris with Jocko Willink
Tim Ferriss is a host of a popular podcast. In this week’s episode he interviews Jocko Willink on Discipline, Leadership and Overcoming. Listen to Audio
The University of Georgia: Enhanced Cybersecurity through Strategic Partnerships (White Paper)
Introduction The University of Georgia is uniquely positioned to significantly enhance education and workforce development, new discovery and… Read More Read More
Jocko Willink’s Interview with Colonel William Reeder, US Army Pilot, Vietnam POW
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Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center (White Paper)
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… Read More
Sam Harris’ Interview with General Michael V. Hayden
Sam Harris hosts his own podcast. View his channel by clicking here… Listen to Audio
President Theodore Rosevelt’s Citizenship in a Republic Address
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… Read More
Abraham Lincoln: Perspective from Leo Tolstoy published in The World on 7 February 1909
TOLSTOI HOLDS LINCOLN WORLD’S GREATEST HERO. Bigger Than His Country. Bigger Than All the Presidents Together: a Christ in Miniature. STILL TOO NEAR TO APPRECIATE HIS POWER. Great Russian Tells…Read More
Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s Report to the House of Commons in June 1940
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…Read More
Is Blockchain a Good Vision for the Future? Perspective from Kai Stutchcombe
Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built on trust, norms, and institutions inherently function better than the type…Read More
Rex Tillerson’s 2018 Commencement Speech at The Virginia Military Institute
Rex Tillerson’s Commencement speech at the Virginia Military Institute… Watch Video
A Father’s Lesson: Keep the Spirit Level by Daniel Foster
For decades my carpenter father, who died in 2009, always carried a small wood level in his pocket. He would fish it out and place it on the nearest horizontal surface: shelves, mantels, stairs—even sidewalks. At the neighbor’s, when he thought no… Read More
The Blindness of Social Wealth by David Brooks
Bob Hall was a rancher. In 1936, in the midst of the Depression, he was suffering from a cancer that was eating the flesh on the side of his face. His ranch had dwindled to nearly nothing, and weeks after bankers took the last of his livestock, Hall died, leaving his family deeply in debt. … Read More
On Establishing High Standards Within an Organization: Perspective from Jeff Bezos of Amazon
One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. Their expectations are never static – they go up. It’s human nature. We didn’t ascend from our…Read More
The Testament of a Furniture Dealer: Perspective from Ingvar Kamprad of IKEA
To create a better everyday life for the many people By offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. We have…Read More
How to Succeed In Business? Do Less by Morten Hansen
By Morten T. Hansen Most Americans work impossibly hard. We put in long hours and maximum effort, but better performance often eludes us. I’m no exception. I remember being in my 20s and landing my dream job as a management consultant… Read More
The Secrets to Wealth in America by Warren Buffett
By Warren Buffett I have good news. First, most American children are going to live far better than their parents did. Second, large gains in the living standards of Americans will continue for many generations to come. Some years back, people… Read More
The Paradox of Our Age: A Sermon by Dr. Bob Moorehead (Overlake Christian Church)
A sermon written by Dr. Bob Moorehead of Seattle’s Overlake Christian ChurchWe have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend… Read More
Abby Davis’ 2016 Valedictory Address at The University of Notre Dame
Abby Davis, a political science major from Avon Lake, Ohio, who graduated with a 3.99 GPA, delivers the Valedictory Address at the 171st University of Notre Dame Commencement Ceremony on May 15… Watch Video
Senator John McCain’s Remarks at the 2017 Liberty Medal Ceremony
Senator John McCain’s remarks after receiving the 2017 Liberty Medal Thank you, Joe [Biden], my old, dear friend, for those mostly undeserved kind words. Vice President Biden… Read More
Atul Gawande’s 2012 Commencement Address at Williams College
June 3, 2012 We had a patient at my hospital this winter whose story has stuck with me. Mrs. C was eighty-seven years old, a Holocaust survivor from Germany, and she’d come to the emergency room… Read More
Madhav Dhar’s Eulogy to Barton Biggs
September 7, 2012 Barton (1932 – 2012) I walked with him. I talked with him. I golfed with him—played squash, tennis, lifted weights with him—climbed mountains with him. I travelled the world with him—I helped create new investment worlds with… Read More
Greg Kaplan’s Note to Son Zach Upon Starting a Summer Internship
My 19 year old son Zach just finished his first summer internship. Back in May, a few days before he started his internship, I sent him this email…Zach, as you begin your first serious internship, I wanted to share… Read More
President Ronald Reagan’s Address from Normandy on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day
President Ronald Reagan – On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day Pointe du Hoc – Normandy, France 6 June 1984We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to… Read More
Mike Pence’s Address on the Presidency at Hillsdale College
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… Read More
Admiral William McRaven’s 2014 Commencement Address at the University of Texas
Admiral William McRaven (USN, Retired) 2014 Commencement Address University of Texas at Austin President Powers, Provost Fenves, Deans, members of the… 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… Read More
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… Read More
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business Given By Charles Munger at the University of of Southern California
Charles Munger – USC Business School I’m going to… Read More
Courage Under Fire By Admiral James Stockdale
Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior James Bond StockdaleI 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… Read More
Steve Jobs’ 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University
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… Read More
David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Commencement Address at 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… Read More
Lou Gehrig’s Farewell to Baseball Address at Yankee Stadium
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… Read More
Don’t Forget to Smile: Jocko Willink on Memorial Day 2017
Jocko Willink hosts this podcast. View his channel by clicking here… Listen to Audio
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… 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%… 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… 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… Read More