1. Trade using Expected Value. It is better than “discretion.”

2. If it is a non-negotiable or a safety issue, parents of grown children should speak up. Otherwise, they should be silent. A preference is not something worth exasperating your children over.

3. Don’t tell people you trade using Expected Value. People want to hear you are a trading genius using your gut to make decisions on a whim.

4. Show me your actions and I will soon know your heart.

5. The optimal length of a blog post is 1,700 words. Ok. Sure.

6. The Beatitudes are simply beautiful.

7. Learn to delegate. Not knowing how can ruin your management and influence.

8. Go have a glass of water. I don’t even know you and I know you probably aren’t drinking enough.

9. You should read your children books. You will not regret it.

10. You should read books. You will not regret it.

1. Ok. I am going to hike Mt. Kilimanjaro. Soon. Well. Soon, enough.

2. There are few things worse than being around a person who always brings you down. Everything is bad, and everything is a crisis. Pass.

3. It is sobering how rare a truly original thought is. Most people have never had one.

4. First, relationships are work. Lots of work.

5. Second, relationships are worth the work.

6. There is sometimes as much influence in judicious inaction as there is in action itself.

7. If you are in doubt: Be quiet.

8. For undergrad, get an engineering degree.

9. If you don’t choose engineering for undergrad, math, statistics, physics, and economics are not bad either. In that order.

10. For the love of everything, I cannot bring myself to spend $150 – $200 on a pair of sunglasses.