Lebron James has a show on HBO called “The Shop”. It’s a simple concept – folks sitting around a barbershop, talking about life. Some topics are light-hearted; some serious. It feels like sitting in on a casual conversation of really talented people – usually athletes,
“Good grief,” my mom used to say. What a funny phrase, “good grief.” I find myself saying it sometimes. All these years later, regurgitating my mother’s phraseology. It doesn’t really seem to mean anything – one of those throw-away expressions that we all intuitively understand.
As I write this, I’m listening to Warren Buffett conduct the 2024 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting – the so-called “Woodstock for Capitalists” that takes place every year, since 1973, in Omaha, Nebraska. My affinity for Mr. Buffett’s late sidekick Charlie Munger is well-known. I wrote
There’s something special about growing up near the ocean. I feel fortunate that my mom moved us to Charleston, South Carolina when I was in the sixth grade. I got to spend my formative years among the rivers, creeks and marshlands near the Atlantic. The
A few years ago, I was introduced to my favorite poem in a strange way. There was a big boxing match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Maymeather in August 2017. I watched it with some business colleagues while on a work trip in NYC. The
After I took the bar exam, I needed to sort out how I wanted to start my professional life. Instead of going the traditional route and working for a law firm, I decided to go into business. I took a few months off to find
As a world traveler for nearly all of my adult life, I have one fundamental thought about humanity that occurs to me over and over. It’s about human differences, and human similarities. Most people, when traveling, focus on the differences between human cultures. The food
Some years ago, I was helping a client navigate a tricky professional situation. He was at a fork in the road – facing a choice between several business opportunities, each with multi-year contracts and long-term financial commitments. He had recently wound up a previous business,
Those who know me well know that I’m a huge Charlie Munger fan. I first learned about Charlie when one of his law partners spoke at my law school graduation ceremony. He quickly became someone I refer to as a “personal hero,” a description I
I spent the formative years of my upbringing near the coast of South Carolina, in an area known as the “Lowcountry”. It’s a natural landscape of low-lying swamps, creeks, rivers, and islands – with the ocean nearby. Oak trees, some of which are centuries old,