Investment vs. Speculation: Capital Gains Tax Rates

The US has a spending problem. The US also has a revenue problem. Anyone who believes it’s one or the other and not both is not being intellectually honest. Our government spends too much on many of the wrong things and has unfunded…

Rationalizing Bad Behavior Away

Warning: This is a graphic post about the Penn State child abuse scandal. May not be appropriate for the office.

I’ve been following the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky story really closely for the past two weeks. I’m completely shocked by how the entire…

Chronicle of a hospital visit in Buenos Aires

It was a little after midnight and we’d just finished a great dinner of Argentinian steak in Buenos Aires. We were walking to a bar to have some after dinner drinks when all the sudden, my friend missteps on the broken sidewalk. He goes tumbling to…

Combining South and North American World Cup Qualifying Groups

I’m have to preface this post by saying that I know this will never ever happen. But I can dream.

I’ve been sitting here in South America watching the start of another long world cup qualifying…

My Entrepreneurial Journey

Note: I wrote this post back in May 2010 for a guest post on a large tech blog, but it never got used. I found it today while going through my inbox and decided it was too good to not post. This is my entrepreneurial journey from 2004 until May 2010.

Overcoming Self Deception: Taking a Step Back

We are all human, we all make mistakes and have strengths and weaknesses. Everyone has areas where they need to improve. But they are hard to identify and its even harder to make the changes necessary to improve. It’s hard because of self deception…