Standing in Line.
Standing in line? Lame. We all despise it to some degree right? How many times have you been excited for your favorite yogurt place …
The Flying Tomato!
How can you not love this kid Shaun White? Despite winning three consecutive gold medals in the coolest Winter Olympic sport (the half-pipe competition), …
The Myth of the Risk-Takers
In a recent piece in one of my favorite mags, the New Yorker titled “The Sure Thing,” Malcolm Gladwell, the king of countering widely held American assumptions, wrote that risk taking is not actually a widespread quality among hugely successful entrepreneurs. In fact, it’s just the opposite. Major entrepreneurs like Ted Turner and John Paulson are in reality so risk averse that they take—or took, when accumulating their massive wealth—all possible precautions to reduce risk. Big-time entrepreneurs, Gladwell suggests, are not the kind of wild gamblers who, because they have the courage to take big risks, eventually make a lot of money. They are more akin to the MIT Blackjack Team, from the book “Bringing Down the House,” or the movie with Kevin Spacey “21,” who discovered the game of blackjack was legally beatable, if you applied certain mathematical principles to it.
How Do You Start Your Day?
I have some morning rituals. Very specific steps to get my day started that are usually something like this. Coffee, New York Times, shower, …
Coach Cal-social media mogul?
John Calipari’s name in the basketball world is synonymous with a few things. The first of which would be winning: as the only coach …
How Social Media has changed Philanthropy.
This past December I received an email from a desperate mother whose daughter was attending Wheaton College on scholarship. She wrote to me, after …
The New "Black Gold"
I have often said that the Internet is now the world’s most lucrative commodity. 1.5 billion (and growing) web users have turned the Internet …
An Update From Jessica at Wheaton…
Towards the end of last year, we took on the challenge of helping out a very special person stay in school through the rest …