Real estate enthusiast. Twin dad +1. Marinating on insights to live better, achieve more, and reach financial freedom.

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Joined July 2010
Over the years, I’ve realized gratitude is the real foundation of happiness. I'm grateful I am healthy I’m grateful my family is healthy I'm grateful I can provide I’m grateful my work inspires me Give a little thanks everyday.
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money buys freedom freedom = happiness
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“We have to prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child.” - Tim Elmore
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The second baby is much easier
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how do kids even learn at school anymore now that AI exists? the entire education system was designed for a world where memorizing mattered, and that world is dead. we should be retooling education so kids learn how to think, judge, and create why isn’t anyone talking about this??
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NEW POST. All my thoughts from the weird and wild world of toddler fatherhood. waitbutwhy.com/2025/10/toddl…
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Father of 3 is considering cancelling his family’s health insurance even through it “feels very irresponsible.” He just can’t afford it anymore. He pays over $30,000/year.
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The peso is breaking
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There are only three ways a job can pay you: With money, with time, and with meaning. Jobs usually give you money. Solopreneurship can give you all three if you design it carefully.
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AI doesn’t do it end-to-end. It does it middle-to-middle. The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying.
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As AI agents get better at computer and tool use, or writing code on the fly for a task, we're going to be able to solve much broader domains of knowledge work. Here's an example of Box AI with the new Claude Skills to generate a clean powerpoint file from existing data.
Doc tells me I’m having twins
What ever happened to selfie sticks?
One more time for those in the back… Meditation is training your awareness, not silencing your brain.
I call it the Silence Fallacy: the idea that meditation is about achieving a state of perfect mental quiet.
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I call it the Silence Fallacy: the idea that meditation is about achieving a state of perfect mental quiet.
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ― Epicurus
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I put my hand upon your hip When I dip You dip We dip
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Will the sprawling subdivisions, cookie cutter multi-family units, soulless libraries, plastic playgrounds, bionic light posts and bland strip malls that litter this country leave our grandchildren with a sense of awe and inspiration? tftc.io/we-can-do-better/
"Never odd or even" spelled backward is still "Never odd or even."
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Adulting is for the birds
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