From: April 2019

Happy 20th Max Lindzon

Our son Max turns 20 today. Ellen and I drove down to Tuscon to have dinner with him. Rachel, Ben his roommate and a bunch of his cousins joined and we had a fun evening. Back when he turned 18, I shared this birthday post. The last 2 years I have seen much less of …

Make Me Pass!!

Before I get started with ‘Make Me Pass’, these two posts ‘Made Me Laugh. First Josh posted this caption contest of Fat Nixon (click and scroll the responses): Brian Lund puts Steve Ballmer in context with this tweet: Sure, Ballmer looks like a dork. A dork who owns 330 million shares of $MSFT pic.twitter.com/8R04wzzFmV — …

Homeschooling and Financial Literacy

I only know two people that have homeschooled their children. Homeschooling though seems to be one of the fastest growing trends in education: Fred Wilson writes: When you look at industries that continue to operate on old, outdated, and highly regulated models (education, health care, banking, brokerage, etc, etc), it is interesting to look at …

Charts and Data Gone Wild

I knew railroads had been hitting all-time highs recently, but I did not know that over the past 20 years railroads had crushed the Nasdaq 100 and the S&P by nearly 10 fold: The railroad charts are likely a hint at what the charts of future software and internet leaders look like 100 plus years …

India and The Internet…

The Indian internet frontier is now in full acceleration. Pure 4G Service Provider Reliance Jio crossed the 300 Million customers mark in just two-and-a-half years of its commercial operations in India. The stat does not mean that much to me and my investing this morning, but in the next bear market, when fear again grips …