Reflections

In 2023, I found time to read 22 books! They were all great. It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I bolded 6 books that really had an impact on me and made me think differently about various subjects.  6 were used in the Fearless Journeys community book club:  The Psychology of Money by Morgan […]

At the end of each year, I like to reflect on my own personal year in review. There was a lot of crazy stuff that happened this year around the world, but it’s always best to understand that you and I are just living in the context of that stuff. It’s up to us to […]

2022 was another exciting year. How to sum it up? It was a year where I continued to live and work remotely, including one month in Guatemala and one month in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Yet, I do all this while always maintaining one foot in my native Florida.  Central America I traveled back to Guatemala two […]

In 2022, I completed 25 books!  7 of them were used in the Fearless Journeys community: How to Get Ahead by Zak Slayback The War of Art by Steven Pressfield The HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose by John Coleman Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David […]

In 2021, I did something dramatic. I left my full-time job at National Review Institute, and my nearly 16-year career in nonprofits, public policy, and fundraising, putting in my notice to NRI in late January and departing the role at the end of February. I moved to Guatemala, where I spent much of my time […]

Oftentimes people ask me what my favorite cigar is. This is a tough question. I like a lot of different kinds of cigars. People often ask me this because they want to gift me a cigar (a really great idea!) but sometimes I don’t know whether the cigar they want to gift me will even […]

On May 13, I welcomed my friend Bob Rubin to Guatemala for his 4-day, 3-night trip. Bob lives in Boca Raton and he flew in from Miami, a 2-hour, 24-minute nonstop flight into Guatemala City. A month or so before his trip, Bob called me to let me know a few people had brought to […]

I would have never imagined that I’d be living, working, and teaching in Guatemala. But today, as I walked onto the campus of Universidad Francisco Marroquin and came across the Adam Smith Plaza, I just thought to myself: perhaps the invisible hand has taken me here.  “The invisible hand” is a concept first articulated by […]

2020 was the most disruptive year of my lifetime. And for the sake of the entire planet, I hope it remains that way. However, it was also a year where we had to adapt. We are human beings, that’s what we do. I thought that 2019 was perhaps the most productive year of my life. […]

In 2020, I completed 25 books, totaling 8,333 pages read. I stepped up my reading by Audible, doing 15 of those books on Audible (for the equivalent of 5,188 pages audibly read). I read five books in print and another five books through the Kindle app on my iPad. I’ve written book reviews for about […]