Last Thursday was CWS’ National Day of Caring. Each region of the country identifies community service projects for our associates to volunteer at in two-hour increments. I worked at a food bank in Orange County. I was part of an assembly line comprised of CWS employees packing boxes for individuals and families at risk of hunger.
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Tennis legend Rafael Nadal announced his retirement last week. He was the embodiment of the warrior ethos and was taught from a very young age that everything he did was intended to strengthen his endurance, as I will soon show.
A few years ago,
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Last week was the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. The Rabbi of my synagogue asked me if I would do a teaching related to Rosh Hashanah. He said it didn’t need to be more than two or three minutes.
In the spirit of Mark Twain,
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I saw a clip of a recent interview with Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and worth more than $100 billion. He was being interviewed in front of a live audience. The first question he was asked was how much time he was spending at Google.
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When I wrote my book, the target audience was deep pockets and deep thinkers. My choice of blog subject tends to oscillate between the two. This week caters more to the latter than the former.
The Gift of You
When one has gained clarity about what gifts one can offer the world and then designs one’s life to utilize them in ways that benefit others,
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Last week was quite eventful. We held our 55th annual investor meeting for CWS with approximately 400 people in attendance. The night before Heather and I hosted our local employees and those who came in from out of town at our house for a few hours of socializing,
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I have written a lot over the years about my daily smoothie routine, which I have been consistently making for the past 20 years or so. I would like to think that I have been better off for having done this consistently for so long but I’m not willing to do a controlled experiment which would require me to stop drinking my smoothie to truly make a comparison in terms of how I feel and if there’s any meaningful change in my blood work.
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The world lost an intellectual and investing giant with the passing of Charlie Munger. He was due to turn 100 on January 1st. He passed away rather quietly and surprisingly for someone with such a large personality and admittedly big mouth.
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I remember reading the 20th-anniversary edition of Rolling Stone magazine in 1987. There were numerous interviews with some of the greats of rock and roll who had been performing for most, if not all, of those 20 years. The one common theme I picked up was that when they started playing music and getting paid for it,
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Last week, I made my annual pilgrimage to London to meet with some of our insurance carriers and prospective ones as well. We have approximately 15 different companies providing us with different layers of coverage. We have a primary layer that covers first losses after deductibles and then secondary/excess layers.
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