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Jun 2025

Legacy in Motion

The Story of My Great-Great-Grandfather
While I enjoy reading stories in many forms, there’s nothing quite like a biography.

Munger described reading biographies as gathering wisdom from the “eminent dead”. Not only is it entertaining but also enlightening. You get to glean first-hand experience without having to go through the tribulations.

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May 2025

The Creative v. The Administrative

My Level-Up Strategy for the Video Game of Life
A friend told me recently, “a vision without a plan is a hallucination.” I like that. It got me thinking.

I’ve spent a lot of time in my life fighting a quiet friction. An internal tug of war. A pendulum that swings back and forth.

On one side is the Creative. The flow state. The lifeblood of joy.

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Feb 2025

Mr. Story Teller and Me

Getting To Know My Inner Voice
We all have an inner voice. Our personal narrator laying out our story for us, moment by moment. Our one-of-one internal radio announcer, reciting the day’s events.

I call mine Mr. Story Teller.

It’s a strange thought – that I’m walking around all day with this voice in my head.

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Jan 2025

Mental Ninja Training

My Journey with CBT – Part 1
There was a period in my life when I felt really low. My thoughts turned negative more than positive, which wasn’t my norm. I had trouble falling asleep and would stare at the ceiling for hours at night, my mind wondering. I felt tired. I was in my mid-30s.

It was the first time in my life that I developed a pattern of emotional lull that I couldn’t work myself out of.

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Jan 2025

Enough With the Lawyer Billboards

An Ode to the Legal Profession
I didn’t grow up wanting to be a lawyer. 

Most of what I heard about lawyers when I was younger was from lawyer jokes. 

Then, I took a Contract Law class when I was in business school at the University of South Carolina. I was about 20.

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Nov 2024

For the Climb of Life & Biz, You Need a Trail Team

Building a business is like climbing a mountain.
The journey of life, the same.

Your trail winds around, up and down over ridge lines, through the valleys. 

There are overlooks where you stop and view where you came from, and where you’re going.

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Nov 2024

Business Owners Operate in Markets, Business Sellers Create Them

I often work with business owners trying to sell their companies.
It’s a fun job – always keeping me on my toes. When there’s a lot of money on the line, the juices flow. The stakes are high.

It’s the most exciting time in a business’ life cycle, when the equity holders finally get to cash in.

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Nov 2024

Embracing A.I. and the Pace of Change

My thoughts? In a word: WOW. 
Over the last few years, I did a complete overhaul of my personal organizational system.

I reorganized my calendar and how I manage my time.

I created checklists for everything.

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Nov 2024

IRAC²

A Lawyer’s Ninja Trick for Getting to the Bottom of Things
In the first year of law school, lawyers-to-be learn the acronym IRAC. It’s a handy tool that has served me well throughout my legal career. 

IRAC is my starting point of first principles thinking whenever I need to do a quick-and-dirty legal analysis. 

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Aug 2024

From Financial to Political Leverage

The Tools That Lift the World
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
–Archimedes

Leverage, a powerful concept as old as time.

I see leverage all around me, everyday. In the physical world, leverage governs what grows and what doesn’t grow.

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