The unintended consequences of good intentions…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *SB, TS, LS, KC, OA, JD, MD, JD, JD*

The Warm-Up: 

“You don’t lack talent, you lack patience. You don’t lack ideas, you lack execution. You don’t lack growth, you lack risk-tasking. You don’t lack love, you lack self-love. You don’t lack knowledge, you lack initiative. You don’t lack opportunities, you lack courage.” ~Orange Book

The Core: 

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” ~Marc Lamont Hill 

“Faith makes things possible, not easy.” ~Saw it on @unkonfined

“To borrow general knowledge, copy others. To earn specific knowledge, take action.” ~Shane Parrish

“Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.” ~Psalms 55:22 NIV

“Don’t hire a dog and try to do the barking.” ~Tom Murphy, as he once described the best approach to decentralization of operating decisions

“I hope you have the clarity and confidence to recognize your radiance even in places and spaces that attempt to shade it.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“A mind with too much free time and not any meaningful goal will always create drama out of nowhere. You want peace, be focused, and hang out with other focused people.” ~Orange Book

“As you heal and grow, you shift from avoiding conflict at all costs to addressing difficult issues courageously. It may not be easy or perfect but appreciate your progress.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“I’ve found it in all my affairs to first ask what am I really solving for and why? Once you have alignment between who you are and where you want to go, you will find clarity in what you must do. Don’t be led by the noise around you, other’s opinions and agendas.” ~Ahmed Husain

“Tony Hawk is the most famous skater in the world, and when he started, no one cared. And you know what? I kind of think that’s the recipe for success. Getting started before anyone cares. Identifying things when they’re still niche or peculiar or a little off-beat.” ~Craig Shapiro, Ahead of the Curve

“You re-create the world within your mind because you can control your mind whereas you can’t control the world. That is why you mentally talk about it. If you can’t get the world the way you like it, you internally verbalize it, judge it, complain about it, and then decide what to do about it. This makes you feel more empowered.” ~Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul

“He has a thing about celebrating, Kipchoge. Sees it as something sinister, something dangerous, a self-indulgent act that might derail his mindset, make him think, somewhere in his subconscious, that he has arrived, the inference being he has nowhere left to go.” ~Cathal Dennehy, Eliud Kipchoge: Inside the camp, and the mind, of the greatest marathon runner of all time

“Crypto is culture and culture is investing: Culture has collided with investing. Crypto is very much a movement and has become a global force because its strength lies in the power of its community. Community x Capital is a very real phenomenon and is changing investing as we know it. Every asset has the potential to become a community-driven asset in a world where social media reigns supreme as a form of content creation and distribution…” ~Michael Sidgmore, The point of no return

“Most of the challenges we face are things we’ve faced before. It might be a personal situation or a business one, but it’s not new. If what you’ve done before works, it’s not a problem any more. If you need to stick it out because there’s no other way through it, it’s not a problem, it’s a situation. But if you think it’s a problem, then the hard work is deciding to try something new, as opposed to the predictable but unsuccessful path of doing what you did before. That’s not the same as the challenge we face when a new problem arises. A new problem doesn’t need fresh thinking, it needs clear awareness. We can begin by acknowledging we have a problem, identifying the constraints, the boundaries and the assets involved. And then we can go to work to solve it. Because ultimately, that’s our job. To solve interesting problems.” ~Seth Godin, New problems, old problems

Last Set: 

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” ~James Baldwin

Food For Thought:

“Over the past decade or so my letters have been focused mostly on saying the same thing: we are in a bull market that began in March of 2009 and continues, accompanied by the typical and inevitable pullbacks and corrections. Its end will come either when stocks get too expensive relative to bonds or when earnings decline, neither of which is the case now. There have been a few other themes: since no one has privileged access to the future, forecasting the market is a waste of time. It is more useful to try and understand what is happening now and give up trying to predict what is going to happen. In the post-war period the US stock market has gone up in around 70% of the years because the US economy grows most of the time. Odds much less favorable than that have made casino owners very rich, yet most investors try to guess the 30% of the time stocks decline, or even worse spend time trying to surf, to no avail, the quarterly up and down waves in the market. Most of the returns in stocks are concentrated in sharp bursts beginning in periods of great pessimism or fear, as we saw most recently in the 2020 pandemic decline. We believe time, not timing, is key to building wealth in the stock market.” ~Bill Miller, Bill Miller 3Q 2021 Market Letter

Food For Thought II:

While I was cleaning the apartment yesterday, I randomly happened upon the most recent episode of Masters in Business. It was Lisa Jones on Investing With a Purpose. And about one hour and fifteen minutes in, she mentions a book, The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse, by Charlie Mackesy. I froze. I hit the “rewind 15secs” button on Spotify and listened to her name the book again. I immediately walked into another room in my apartment, where the bookshelf is, and began scouring the shelves…that title sounded familiar. I found it! I pulled the book out, opened it and read the message inscribed inside from Mr. and Mrs. Dorogi on 3.15.2021. I thought back to just earlier last week when Margaret encouraged me to read this same book as it was on the bedside table when I stayed with her and Jimbo in Austin. I knew the universe was guiding me. I listened. I sat down on the couch and immediately read the book.

“One of the greatest freedoms is how we react to things.”

What is the universe telling you? What have you been putting off that it may be wise to tap into now? Pay attention.

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