🎙️New pod alert with A.J. Wasserstein, Professor at Yale School of Management🎙️

Check out my conversation last weekend with
@dailymunger where we chat with A.J. about lifestyle design for entrepreneurs, ETA, and his advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. Topics included:

- What makes a business attractive
- Navigating the three stages of entrepreneurship (do, manage, lead)
- How to optimize a career around your values
- Lifestyle design as an entrepreneur

This week was wild. I finally closed on the real estate services company (property + facilities management, leasing, sales, maintenance services) after a long 9 month process and have been drinking from a fire hose all week. Fun times! A short summary: 1/ started talking w/ the seller 9 months ago. 68 years old, no one to pass biz to, just within my range $ wise to buy on my own. He is a class act of a guy and very experienced. Will be staying on for a period after closing - we have a great relationship.

Lessons of History by Ariel and Will Durant is one of my favorite history books of all time. It is rich with lessons from across history. A thread of my favorite quotes (Pt I): "Since man is a moment in astronomic time, a transient guest of the earth, a spore of his species, a scion of his race, a composite of body, character, and mind, a member of a family and a community, a believer or doubter of a faith, a unit in an economy, perhaps a citizen in...

It's been 1 year of reading, learning, and sharing thoughts through Circle of Competence, and to celebrate I have posted my favorite articles and videos/podcasts from the past year!

Top articles:
- @BrentBeshore on buying your first small business and evaluating an investment - @safalniveshak wall of ideas
- @sinocism deep dive on China's social engineering
- Trammell Crow memo on real estate investing failures
- @aliceschroeder original Berkshire research
- Mary Meeker's 2018 Internet Trends Report