I’m not sure why, but I think it’s probably going against the grain that has highlighted this to me. I think the middle class is full of people terrified of taking risks. Most people, in general, are terrified of doing anything risky, but I think the middle class has certain forces within that make it even tougher. Now let me preface this a little bit. I’m talking about people who grew up and knew they were going to college. You may not have had all of your college paid for,…read more

It seems like the more I learn and read, the quieter I try to become. I include ‘try’ in there because it’s a process, with setbacks, like anything. The real meaning of the more I learn, the more I see that everything is way more complex than I once had thought of. This has been an ongoing thought for a while now. It actually started with a drunken conversation with one of my good friends. I was asking him pretty bluntly if there were any major flaws of me as…read more

One of the biggest misconceptions I run into when talking to people about what I do and how I live my life that it is some kind of phase that I am going through. When I explain how I live my life, by building businesses and investing from my computer while traveling around, I often can see this misconception in the way the person talks to me. Their tone and the slight phrases they say show their true thoughts: “That’s a pretty cool way to spend your 20’s.” Or “Nice!…read more

So Cory and I have started a new daily routine that we’ll follow for the next month before we leave Seattle. I figured it may be interesting enough to write a short blog post about it. I’ll try to get into some details about it, but keep it brief. FYI, a lot of this stuff will be weird to people, like putting butter in coffee and drinking saltwater… welcome to our weirdness. 5:00 to 6:45 AM: Wake up & morning ritual So we wake up early, but we also go…read more