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Bourdain was still dunking french fries at age 44 before he wrote kitchen confidential

Best of life is not behind you. 40’s are the back nine of your prime. You have the most knowledge and experience and still have energy and ability. Be careful of the stories you te…

Friend works for real estate group that provides consulting services for companies looking to move into a new area. Friend can drag a box around any area down to the block and see …

The book - Fabric of Civilization takes an informative dive on what happened as cotton/wool fabric technology evolved and different bottle necks in the process changed, along with …

Know a few “pot lawyers” and retail operators. The real money is in gaining a license for a dispensary. Growing is a race to the bottom. From humboldt era $5k lbs to $800 lbs

Money is but a reflection of what we value. Money is not evil, but the abstraction of “value” in modern life does cause the problems he blames money for. Perhaps the jungle/forest …

Judd made Marfa and died before it ever became what it was today. Secretive group of artists and the like came later and in the end, all good towns need an industry and Marfa’s rea…

The flower market in downtown LA is one of the best in the world. Very neat experience to get there at 5am, semi-akin to Tsukiji back in the day.

Package up a gimmick in a decent looking kiosk and pitch the “where won’t this work!?” dream. You’ll capture enough imagination in pitch meetings to raise a few mil. You’ll put tog…

Much like Europe already

Easy - hold a plank

Worked in commercial real estate before the last crash and have a few friends working at big mall companies. Have seen some really cool plans to turn a whole mall into residential …

Need AoE!!

I was raising money and met this zen style investor for lunch to talk about some issues we were having, basically complaining and blaming and things like that, he interrupted me an…

This ^^^^^

It’s a bit of a paradox when you try something audacious like a startup. I raised money, had 6 full-time employees and went hard and a year in realized it wasn’t going to work. It …

Should add that his insurance company covered everything both times and provided rental car but after second time they won’t cover the vehicle anymore being parked in that neighbor…

Friend of mine has a Prius and lives in Echo Park in LA. His cat was cut out of his car twice in two weeks. Seemed like every person in the chain benefited from the theft, scrap me…

A person I know routinely flies with ~1 lbs of marijuana in his checked luggage as well as edibles and vape products, all just for personal use. He flies internationally to and fro…

The pollution is the tough part there. Despite the great weather normally. Have you found anywhere else comparable that isn’t insane expensive?

Where are the numbers on revenue here or what point of scale shows profit. They show a spreadsheet with 10 users costing $2,800/mo to maintain and $24k upfront. How could that ever…

We entered that zombie phase our 5th year in business. Now we are in our 9th year and have ticked along slowly slowly decling a bit each year. Down to two employees and probably ha…

Scroll to bottom to see it’s a piece pushing for ethanol flex-fuel

We used a few to power kiosk touch screens and other commercial display applications using network broadcast video. Made a seven screen display each with their own pi that sync’d i…

dammit