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2026 175

  1. Love, Soul & Care: The Essence of the Best Experiences In the World
  2. Cultural Superpower: America Through the Lens of Stanley Tucci’s Italy
  3. Marshals: More Lessons from the New Yellowstone
  4. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 25th, 2026
  5. Understanding the K-shaped Economy: Thriving in America, THE World’s BEST Economic Opportunity Zone Bar NONE
  6. Equity & Assets Is the Only Way to Wealth: More BTB Personal Finance Wisdom
  7. Dealing with Stress: More Radigan Carter Wisdom
  8. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 18th, 2026
  9. The Changing World Order: A View of the World from the Frontlines
  10. Reflecting on Landman in Maui: Being Present
  11. A Walk In the Woods: Forest Bathing & Exercise for the Win
  12. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 11th, 2026
  13. Taking Risks & Intentionality Is Key to Success in Life: More Landman Lessons
  14. Living in the Present & Living Fully: Landman Wisdom
  15. History Rhymes: Learning from the 1970s
  16. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 4th, 2026
  17. Mt Fuji and Happiness Code
  18. Solo Mio: Love in Italy and Love of Italy
  19. It’s Time to Build: Your Reminder and Call to Action
  20. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 27th, 2026
  21. Modern Deal Guy as Gunslinger: Conduit of Value
  22. Framework for Work & Relevance in the Age of AI
  23. Life Ain’t Fair: Deal With It
  24. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 20th, 2026
  25. Dark Age Mindset: Embrace the Great Decline
  26. IRL Versus URL: The New Scarcity
  27. The Era of Asymmetry: One Person Can Make a Difference
  28. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 13th, 2026
  29. Advice from Anthony Deden: Surviving in the Nadir of Democracy & the West
  30. Even More Landman Wisdom: It’s All About People
  31. Chainsaw Man-The Movie Reze Arc: Wisdom from Mayhem
  32. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 6th, 2026
  33. Don’t Drift: Chasing Trends is Dumb
  34. Maul Shadow Lord: Hate Will Set You Free
  35. Afternoon Nap Routine: The Golden Minutes
  36. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 30th, 2026
  37. Tron: Ares
  38. How Dare You?
  39. Wicked 2: No Place Like Home
  40. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 23rd, 2026
  41. Face the Tiger: Dealing with Unexpected Surprises & Challenges
  42. Off Season Travel: A Parable for Investing
  43. The Kindness of Strangers
  44. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 16th, 2026
  45. Chhaava: Marathan Warrior King
  46. Being on Tilt: How to Reset Yourself
  47. Health, Wealth & Fame: The Surprising Wisdom of Logan Paul
  48. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 9th, 2026
  49. Everything is Barbell: Don’t Get trapped in the Murderous Middle
  50. Cyclical Investments: Learning from Calvin Froedge
  51. The Frontier Versus the Core: A Discussion with Maxwell Meyer
  52. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 2nd, 2026
  53. Emerson’s Self-Reliance: Words to Live By
  54. History Rhymes: People and Civilizations Don’t Change Very Much
  55. The Modern Deal Guy Part Deux: Financier for Chaotic Times
  56. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 26th, 2026
  57. Selling the Thrill
  58. The Time is NOW: Chaos is a Ladder Part Deux
  59. Kickstart Your Day Properly: My Perfect Morning Routine
  60. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 19th, 2026
  61. Be Grateful: Health is Wealth
  62. Changing Your Mood: Do a Brain Reboot
  63. The Next Super Cycle of AI, Culture and Markets
  64. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 12th, 2026
  65. Why is Everything Broken?: The Decline of a High Trust Society
  66. Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
  67. Company Golden Ages: The Magic 5 Years
  68. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 5th, 2026
  69. Rental Family: Finding Your Place
  70. I Don’t Want To
  71. Learning from Chamath: One of the Most Polarizing Men in Silicon Valley
  72. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 28th, 2026
  73. Be Like Joules Sullivan: “The Secret to Power, Wealth & Freedom”
  74. Slow Down to Speed Up: Working Like a Lion in 2026
  75. Surviving the Fourth Turning: Learning from Doomberg
  76. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 21st, 2026
  77. Noblesse Oblige: An Old Idea Needed for Modern Times
  78. Be the Light: Homestead
  79. The Kill Line: The Precariousness of Life and Prosperity in the Age of AI
  80. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 14th, 2026
  81. Surviving in the AI Age & Age of Chaos: Learning from Hispanic Nomad
  82. Surviving the AI Jobpocalypse: Learning From Matt Shumer
  83. Surviving the Fourth Turning
  84. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 7th, 2026
  85. Leave the World Behind
  86. The Three Body Problem: Insights into A Culture & the Future
  87. A New Age of Venture Capital: Investing in Hard Stuff
  88. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 31st, 2026
  89. The 4Fs: Code for a Good Life
  90. Western Cowboy Wisdom: Life on the Frontier
  91. Nobu: Building an Empire
  92. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 24th, 2026
  93. Revisiting "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty": Be A Traveler & Adventurer
  94. The Rise of the New Renaissance Man
  95. The Modern Deal Guy: The New Finance Solopreneur
  96. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 17th, 2026
  97. Living in a High Trust Society
  98. Gratitude is the Cure
  99. Power of Novelty in Anti-Aging
  100. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 10th, 2026
  101. Mountainhead
  102. Purehearted
  103. F1: The Movie
  104. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 3rd, 2026
  105. No Apologies
  106. Aristocrat Hours: Work Like a Lion Part Deux
  107. Get The F-ing Money Part Deux: Money Matters
  108. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 26th, 2026
  109. Get The F–ing Money: Personal Finance Advice for the Young Man (and Old)
  110. Opportunities Abound in the K-Shaped Economy
  111. Surviving An Uncertain Future: Building Lighthouse Skills
  112. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 19th, 2026
  113. Learning from Morgan Housel: Personal Finance and Human Psychology
  114. Bundling and UnBundling, The Barbell in Media: A Creator’s Lesson in the 2020s
  115. Anglo Empires: Great Britain, America and the Eternal Search for the Frontier
  116. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 12th, 2026
  117. The Two Types of Startups to Invest in: A Framework for 2026 and Beyond
  118. The Precariousness of the Shire: Peace Through Strength
  119. The Mountain Never Ends: Grinding and Thinking Long Term
  120. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 5th, 2026
  121. Be Present: Old Man Wisdom From Landman
  122. The Thinking Game
  123. Go Get Some: Andrew Tate Motivation
  124. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 29th, 2026
  125. Eyes on the Prize: Focus on the Basics
  126. Liquidity Kills: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
  127. Finding the Future: The Practitioner Preacher
  128. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 22nd, 2026
  129. The Pain of Discipline: Be Hard On Yourself
  130. Staying Alive: Societal Lessons from the Late Bronze Age Collapse
  131. After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilization
  132. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 15th, 2026
  133. Don’t Get Disconnected: Losing Touch with Reality
  134. Winners and Losers: It’s All in Your Mind
  135. Go Direct: You are the Message
  136. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 8th, 2026
  137. Warband Maxxing: Build Your Tribe Part Deux
  138. Go Tribal: Build a Clan
  139. Notice, Name, Relax and Release: A Method for Emotional Control
  140. Stay Grounded: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself Part Deux
  141. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 1st, 2026
  142. Trade Routes & Chokepoints: A Neo-Mercantilist Deglobalized World
  143. Life is Pain, So Choose Your Pain
  144. Be a Hustler aka Be High Agency
  145. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 22nd, 2026
  146. Wicked
  147. Avoid Boring People: How to Be Interesting
  148. Giving Grace
  149. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 15th, 2026
  150. Mobland
  151. Desire: the Carl Craig Story
  152. Troy: Making History
  153. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 8th, 2026
  154. 366 Days
  155. Global Investing: The World’s Most Interesting Men
  156. The Rebound: Travel Can Change Your Life
  157. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 1st, 2026
  158. The Bench: Dealing With Change
  159. Ballerina: The Female John Wick
  160. Control the Controllables: Getting Through A Time of Chaos
  161. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 25th, 2026
  162. The Dark Forest Theory: Be Stealth
  163. Palmer Luckey’s Survivor Wisdom: And a Warning
  164. Never Doom, Stay In the Game: Your Regular Reminder
  165. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 18th, 2026
  166. Real Change Only Comes from “the Fear” & Harsh Circumstances
  167. The Dormy Inn Experience: The Simplest Things are Best
  168. Slowing Time Down: Tea Time in Japan
  169. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 11th, 2026
  170. Teasing Master Tagaki-san: A Lifelong Love
  171. Batman Begins: Every boy and Man’s Dream
  172. Sun, Sand and Grounding: It’s the Small Things
  173. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 4th, 2026
  174. The Thunderbolts: Tormented Heroes
  175. Offensive or Defensive: Portfolio Strategy for Your Life 2

2025 210

  1. A 2025 Recap & Retrospective: Navigating Thru The Storm
  2. Asset or Liability: Portfolio Strategy for Your Life
  3. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 28th, 2025
  4. Learning from Balaji Srinavasan: Tech Visionary
  5. Lessons from the Everyday Spy Part 4: Focus on the Right Things
  6. Lessons from the Everyday Spy Part 3: Focus on the Basics
  7. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 21st, 2025
  8. Lessons from Everyday Spy Part 2: Predictions for the Future America
  9. Lessons from Everyday Spy Part 1: The World is A Scary Place
  10. Ganbatte: The Japanese Way of Finding Luck & Happiness
  11. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 14th, 2025
  12. You’re Too Online: Touching Grass & The Unmooring of the Real Life World
  13. Complete and Total Personal Ownership Is the Only Path to Success
  14. Taking Losses and The Humbled Investor: Ego is the Enemy
  15. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 7th, 2025
  16. Interregnum: Stuck in Limbo
  17. The Mindset to Thrive in the Chaos: Bet on Yourself
  18. 36 Months to Make it: Time is Running Out
  19. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 30th, 2025
  20. Living in and Surviving Boomtowns: San Francisco in the 21st Century
  21. It Won’t Be Free
  22. NEVER EVER Underestimate Your Enemy: Western Arrogance and Ignorance Kills
  23. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 23rd, 2025
  24. Inside Out 2: Raging Emotions
  25. Dune Prophecy: Faith, Purpose & Action Wins
  26. Point Break the Remake
  27. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 16th, 2025
  28. Margin Call
  29. Power Is Everything: Playing to Win
  30. Andor 2: Beginning of the End of Empire
  31. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 9th, 2025
  32. You Become Your Environment: A Summer in Paris
  33. Wisdom from Landman: Lessons on the Oilpatch
  34. Tokyo Cowboy: Waking up Before it’s Too Late
  35. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 2nd, 2025
  36. Burdens or Responsibilities: Noblesse Oblige
  37. Forest Bathing: Getting back to Nature
  38. The Accountant 2: Blood, Brotherly Loyalty & What Really Matters
  39. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 26th, 2025
  40. Starship Troopers
  41. Anger Management 201: My Constant Internal Battle
  42. Ramen Girl: Finding Your Path by Finding Your Heart
  43. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 19th, 2025
  44. Your Ego & Startup Reporting for Founders: Fight Your Instincts
  45. The Rowing Machine Exercise: a Parable for Life
  46. The Magic of Air Travel
  47. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 12th, 2025
  48. You Can Just Do Things: Being High Agency
  49. The Path to Happiness is Being Material Asset-Lite
  50. The Brutal American: Custom Made for the Chaotic and Rough Times We are In
  51. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 5th, 2025
  52. Customs Frontline: Hong Kong Cinema Action
  53. Woe to the Conquered: Failure is Slavery in this New World
  54. Logan Roy’s Wisdom: Take the F–king Money
  55. Marvin's Best Weekly Reads Sept 28th, 2025
  56. Learning from Everyone, Especially Those you Disagree With Part 2: Advice for Men
  57. Playing Hard Ball: Surviving and Thriving in Trump 2.0’s World
  58. Learning from Everyone, Especially Those you Disagree With & Even Hate: Violence is Real
  59. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 21st, 2025
  60. War Mode: Dan Koe Wisdom
  61. Rip Cole’s Yellowstone Cowboy Wisdom
  62. Salaar Ceasefire: Army of One
  63. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 14th, 2025
  64. Giving Grace and the Locus of Personal Control: The Duality of Man
  65. Ingrates Never Win: The Power of Appreciation and Gratitude
  66. The Urgency of Becoming an Entrepreneur: Your Only Route to Thrive in 2025 & Beyond
  67. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 7th, 2025
  68. Understand Yourself to Manage Yourself
  69. No Pain, No Gain: Do Hard Things
  70. The Ultimate Test of Your Mettle: On the Frontier or on the Battlefield
  71. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 31st, 2025
  72. The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: Ending A Project & Relationship
  73. Being Present: More Wisdom from Fast & the Furious Tokyo Drift
  74. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  75. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 24th, 2025
  76. X aka Twitter & Geopolitical Takes
  77. Great Gatsby: An American Story of Aspiration
  78. On a Trigger Fuse: The Age of Rage, The Golden Age of Grifters and the Age of Incompetence
  79. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 17th, 2025
  80. Wisdom from Kung Fu Panda 4
  81. Sidonie in Japan: Traveling to a Far Off Land
  82. Agnelli: THE Italian Industrialist
  83. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 10th, 2025
  84. 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days: First Love
  85. You Need Courage to Truly Live
  86. Going to the Mattresses: Sometimes You Have to Go to War
  87. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 3rd, 2025
  88. Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  89. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  90. Moral Injury: When the Mind & Soul Suffers, The Body Cries Out
  91. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 27th, 2025
  92. Ode to The Godfather (1 & 2)
  93. Mountain Ranges Versus Pyramids
  94. A Love Letter to New York: The City for Inspiration & Rejuvenation
  95. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 20th, 2025
  96. The Law of Large Numbers: A Curse or Blessing
  97. Hell is Other People: An Introvert in an Extrovert World
  98. Runner Runner: Lessons in Ambition, Fear & Greed
  99. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 13th, 2025
  100. Analog: A Japanese Love Story
  101. Sliding Door Moments in Life
  102. Repositioning for the Future: Reindustrialize aka Back to the Future for America
  103. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 6th, 2025
  104. Solitude or Loneliness: Humans in a Modern World
  105. Cold War 2: Rise of the New Axis versus the West
  106. There are No Atheists in Foxholes: Finding My Religion
  107. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 29th, 2025
  108. Don’t Tell Me What You Think, Show Me Your Book: Personal Finance Rules
  109. One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: Remember that R&R means Rest & Recuperation
  110. If You Are So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
  111. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 22nd, 2025
  112. The 3Cs of Venture Capital
  113. Life Reminder: Don’t Forget That Everybody Has Problems
  114. Ichi Go Ichi E: Being Present
  115. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 15th, 2025
  116. Hope Versus Hopelessness: Fighting Through Depression
  117. Insomniacs After School: Living is Impact
  118. The Lord of the Rings: A Timely Reminder and Tale of War
  119. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 8th, 2025
  120. The Age of Austerity: Getting Lean & Mean
  121. Being Off Your Game: Coping & Recovery
  122. The New Chivalry: Being a Modern Knight
  123. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 1st, 2025
  124. The Long Sword: The Middle Ages of Wisdom
  125. The Zen Diary
  126. Takano Tofu: A Family Business
  127. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 25th, 2025
  128. Lisan Al Gaib: Believing In a Something Greater Than Yourself
  129. Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
  130. The Observer Affects the Observed: Power of the Beholder
  131. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 18th, 2025
  132. Shogun: Master of Fates
  133. Build Your Binge Bank: Shaan Puri’s Creator Tip
  134. A Pep Talk from Gordon Gekko: Use It When You Are Down
  135. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 11th, 2025
  136. Rules for Life: Want Money, Ask for Advice; Want Advice, Ask for Money
  137. To the Extreme: Living a Precarious Life On Purpose
  138. Implications of the Change from Nation States to Network States: Why You Need a Private Military Company on Call
  139. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 4th, 2025
  140. SOS: Slower, Older, Smarter
  141. Chase Your Dreams: Mastering the Game to Leave the Game
  142. The Dog Who Catches the Car: The Cosmic Joke of Life
  143. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 27th, 2025
  144. Nurture Over Nature: Increasing Clock Speed to Win
  145. Letters from the Past: Sacrifice and Appreciating What You Have
  146. Tulsa King: A Gangster in a MidWest Paradise
  147. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 20th, 2025
  148. There Is Always an Exit Tax: The Price of Freedom and the Future
  149. Equalizer 3: An Assassin’s Italian Holiday
  150. Shortcomings: What you Hate Shows You Who You Are
  151. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 13th, 2025
  152. Departures: Passings & Comfort in Ceremony
  153. Weakness Invites Aggression: Peace is Achieved Through Strength
  154. Fixing Yourself and Building Momentum in Life: The Aggregation of Small Things
  155. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 6th, 2025
  156. Noble Obligations & Skin in the Game: The Harsh Reality of War in Medieval Times
  157. The Pure Cold Reality of the Fighting Arts: The Restorative Effects for Men
  158. Idealism Versus Pragmatism: The Inner War of Silicon Valley
  159. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 30th, 2025
  160. Family, Sacrifice and Drive: More Yellowstone Wisdom
  161. Crush Your Enemies Totally: More Yellowstone Wisdom
  162. Deciphering Chaos: A Unipolar World to Multipolar World
  163. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 23rd, 2025
  164. My Content Map: A Tool for All Creators and Make No Mistake, Everyone will be a Creator
  165. Patisserie Coin De Rue: Tragedy & Triumph in the Pursuit of Perfection
  166. The Legend and the Butterfly: Power Corrupts
  167. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 16th, 2025
  168. Hard Reality of Life: There Will Always Be Problems
  169. Sliding Down Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: The Coming Years of Civil Rage
  170. Luxury Beliefs Are a Signal of the Peak
  171. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 9th, 2025
  172. The War Within: Choosing the Future Over the Past
  173. Built for War: Surviving Tough Times
  174. The Joy and Pain of Fatherhood: Your Legacy (And A Personal Journey)
  175. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 2nd, 2025
  176. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: An Historical Inspiration
  177. Don’t Go to Davos: There is an Expiration Date for Everything
  178. Your Gift Is Also Your Curse: The Duality of Life
  179. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 23rd, 2025
  180. Do You Want to Be Right or Do you Want to Win: Why Academics Suck at Business
  181. Explore The Pain: Pain Leads to the Truth
  182. You Will Always Have Problems: A Hard Fact of Life
  183. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 16th, 2025
  184. History Rhymes: Post World War 1 and the 2020s
  185. Finding Your Why: The Hard Secret to Surviving
  186. Keeping Promises To Yourself: Doing Hard Things To Make Yourself More Powerful and Your Life Better
  187. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 9th, 2025
  188. You Never Regret Working Out at the Gym: Good Life Advice
  189. LifeSpan versus HealthSpan versus JoySpan: Great Concepts for Life Longevity
  190. Sahil Bloom and Your True Wealth Score
  191. Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zone show
  192. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 2nd, 2025
  193. Young and Dangerous: The Challenger Effect
  194. Be the Difference Maker
  195. The World is a Mirror: You Hate in Others What You Hate in Yourself
  196. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 26th, 2025
  197. Let the Sleeper Awake: Hybrid War is Here, Kinetic War is Coming
  198. Love in Taipei: Reminiscing about The Love Boat Program 1995
  199. Building Your Financial BarBell: Personal Finance Lessons & a Portfolio Review
  200. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 19th, 2025
  201. The Path to Sovereignty is the Path to Freedom: Learning from Resavager
  202. Lioness: The Thin Line Between Chaos & Order
  203. Be Like Bamboo: Making Your Moves in Shadows and Silence
  204. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 12th, 2025
  205. A Good Death (and Life): Civil War the Movie
  206. The Future Face of War: Economic Sanctions, Proxy Wars, Cyber-Infowar, Drones & Special Forces
  207. It’s Still A Great Time to Be Alive: Paul Han & Youtube Influencer Hustle
  208. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 5th, 2025
  209. Full Benefit: Embrace Challenges
  210. Kingdom of Heaven: Our Own Personal Crusade to Find Purpose and Do Right

2024 211

  1. A 2024 Recap & Retrospective: Still in the Middle of the Storm
  2. Preparing for War: It’s Gonna Be Nutty Out There (Your Regular Reminder)
  3. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 29th, 2024
  4. Surviving the Storm: A Rough Couple of Years
  5. Coming Home: Men and Emotions
  6. Random Stories From Backpacking in Prague: The Kindness of Strangers
  7. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 22nd, 2024
  8. Elemental: Family, Duty and Sacrifice
  9. Dying Slowly in America: The Heart Always Wins
  10. Technology Without Culture Does Not Work: The Future is Better
  11. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 15th, 2024
  12. The Time Capsule: Lessons of Staying Young While Getting Old
  13. Beckham: The Documentary
  14. All Your Problems Lie Within: Heal Thyself
  15. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 8th, 2024
  16. The Line I thought I’d Never Write: What I learned From Tai Lopez
  17. Passport Bro Wisdom: Traveling for a Better Lifestyle
  18. Media as A Signal Two: Reflections on America in the 2020s
  19. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 1st, 2024
  20. ‘Past Lives’: What Could Have Been
  21. The New Entrepreneurship: Personal Holding Companies & Multipreneurship
  22. Damocles Sword: The Psychic Costs of Wealth and Power
  23. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 24th, 2024
  24. Greed is a Tool: Leveraging Your Own and Others
  25. Variable Costs Versus Fixed Costs: Lessin’s Lesson
  26. Be the Heel or Be the Face: Why World Wrestling is a good school for Personal Branding and Investors
  27. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 17th, 2024
  28. Talent Mobility in a Deglobalized & Multipolar World: Learning from Genghis Khan
  29. Undiscovered and Overlooked Assets: Value Investing in Life
  30. Sun Moon: Loss, Growth, Taiwan & Travel
  31. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 10th, 2024
  32. The Great Societal Disconnection: The True Impact of the 2020 Pandemic
  33. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Limits of Generosity
  34. Holiday Hell: Why Holidays Are Hard for Most People
  35. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 3rd, 2024
  36. Spending Money Well: Living a Rich Life
  37. Excellence is Hard: Deion Sanders & The Need for Straight Talk
  38. The Real Life World’s Most Interesting Man: Gianluca Vacchi
  39. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 27th, 2024
  40. Find Your Delta: Investing In the Future
  41. It is the Best of Times: Life in the Post ZIRP- Boom Silicon Valley
  42. HaLT: The Stages of Relapse & Importance of Discipline
  43. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 20th, 2024
  44. Life as an Introvert in a People Business: How to Thrive
  45. The Red Queen Effect: Infinite Competition in the New World Order
  46. It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn: Hang in There
  47. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 13th, 2024
  48. Degeneration & Despair: The Coming Great Cope in America
  49. Lessons in Living a Dolce Life: My Italian Trip
  50. Be a Pioneer: Immigrants Are the Best Entrepreneurs
  51. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 6th, 2024
  52. Everyone Has Problems: Why You Should be Kind to Everyone
  53. A Good Year
  54. The Kids Are Not Alright: The Repercussions of ZIRP Era 2018-2022
  55. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 29th, 2024
  56. The Silent Pandemic After the Pandemic: The Global Mental Health Crisis
  57. The Magic of Modern Air Travel: Refuge in the Sky
  58. Only the Paranoid Survive
  59. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 22nd, 2024
  60. War of Traps: Power Corrupts Absolutely
  61. Freedom, Impact and Generosity: The Only Point of Wealth
  62. Dark Nights, Dark Thoughts: Never Make Big Decisions in the Dark Hours
  63. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 15th, 2024
  64. Oil and Water: Painful Lessons of “BlackBerry the Movie”
  65. You Are the Company You Keep: Academy Companies, Alumni and Your Career Velocity
  66. Les Miserable: Do You Hear the People Sing? Singing The Song of Angry Men (and Women)
  67. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 8th, 2024
  68. Health is Wealth: Healthspan Over Lifespan
  69. The Face You Show: The Reality and Filter Effect in Social Media
  70. You Are What You Read or Watch: Controlling Your Media Diet
  71. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 1st, 2024
  72. Make Tomorrow Better: My Time at Curtin University
  73. Summer Chilling: Enjoying the Calm Before the Storm
  74. Total Personal Ownership: The Only Way for a Good Life
  75. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 25th, 2024
  76. The Art of Living Well: It Doesn’t Have to be Expensive
  77. Cooperation is the Mark of Civilization: You Can’t Do it Alone
  78. Living Life to the Seasons: Learning From Nature
  79. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 18th, 2024
  80. “Extreme Job”: Persistence Pays
  81. Beware the Man With One Book: Build Your Latticework of Knowledge (and Opinion)
  82. Harsh Times Require Harsh Actions: To do Good & Right You Must Be Strong
  83. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 11th, 2024
  84. Joy Ride: The Importance of Knowing Your Past
  85. Media as a Signal: Understanding a Society & Nation’s Direction
  86. Are You Upgrading or Downgrading: Your Decisions in Life Matter
  87. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 4th, 2024
  88. Belief Comes Before Ability: Have Faith
  89. Garbage In, Garbage Out: Fix Your Media Diet
  90. Land of the Wolves: Surviving in the New World Disorder
  91. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 28th, 2024
  92. Your Dreams and Nightmares Point The Way
  93. 1923: Tough Times Need Tough People
  94. It don’t mean a Thing: Career and Life Lessons from “Hamburger Hill”
  95. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 21st, 2024
  96. God, Gold and Steel: Conquest is in the Blood of Man
  97. 1/99 Rule, Not the 20/80 Rule: Entering The Winner Take All Economy
  98. America Is the Frontier: The Future Is Here
  99. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 14th, 2024
  100. Austin: The Silicon Valley for Creative & Literary Entrepreneurs
  101. Generalists Win: Building Your Polymath Stack
  102. Failure is a Message from the Universe
  103. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 7th, 2024
  104. Mass Versus Class: Customer Segments Matter
  105. Throwing Stones: We’re All Flawed
  106. Be Grateful: Simple Things in Life that Make You Happy
  107. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 30th, 2024
  108. Finding Your Scenius: The Power of Place and Time
  109. The Strong Case for Web 3 & Crypto: Declining State Capacity & Increasing State Malice
  110. “Perfect Days”: A Mundane but Happy Life
  111. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 23rd, 2024
  112. Tulsa King: Everybody Has Problems
  113. Venture Capital is Hard: The End of an Era
  114. Elon Musk and F—k You Money: Separating the Messenger From the Message
  115. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 16th, 2024
  116. Increasing Your Surface of Luck: It’s Almost Always A Numbers Game
  117. Watching Your Back: Defense is Offense
  118. A for Effort: Relentlessness is a Big Predictor of Success
  119. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 9th, 2024
  120. 8th Grade: Reminders and Lessons from an Awful Time
  121. Finding the Efficient Frontier: A Tool for Optimizing Your Life
  122. Nobody Knows Anything: Leadership is Hard
  123. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 2nd, 2024
  124. Understanding Owned, Paid and Borrowed Media: Tools for Your Own Media Empire
  125. The Big Lie of Home Ownership: Freedom is Living a Possession-Lite Life
  126. Living Well: “Me Time” and Self Care
  127. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 26th, 2024
  128. Yudo: Lessons from The Way of the Bath
  129. Kintsugi: What is Broken Can Be Mended
  130. The Mongol Doctrine Part 2: Every Action Has an Opposite and Equal Reaction
  131. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 19th, 2024
  132. Hearts on Fire: Concept of Aliveness
  133. Learning from the Midwit Curve: The Majority is Usually Wrong
  134. The Mongol Doctrine: Savagery Works and the Hard Lessons of History
  135. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 12th, 2024
  136. The Value of Unstructured Empty Time in Your Life
  137. Too Much of A Good Thing: Drawbacks of a Life of Excess & Why Constraints Are Good for You
  138. Peace Through Strength: Your Regular Reminder to Get Strong Physically, Mentally and Financially
  139. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 5th, 2024
  140. Enjoying the Small Things: More Japanese Wisdom
  141. Lessons from “Arnold”: The Mastery of Life Part 2
  142. The Way of Billionaires: DOE=Distressed or Early Assets
  143. A Strange Trip: 50 Circuits Around the Sun
  144. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 28th, 2024
  145. Lessons from “Arnold”: The Mastery of Life Part 1
  146. The Joy of A Good Night’s Rest: The Most Important Element for Health and Clear Thinking
  147. The 5 AM Club: Mornings are for World Domination
  148. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 21st, 2024
  149. There is No Hack or Shortcut: A Life of Excellence Requires Pain & Suffering
  150. Civilize the Mind, Savage the Body, Build the Bank Account: The Grand Triad of Life
  151. What Does "F-ck You Money" Really Mean: Why Financial Independence is So Important for a Great Life
  152. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 14th, 2024
  153. Climbing Mountains, Slaying Dragons: Carving Your Own Path
  154. Steel Sharpens Steel: Picking your Tribe and Environment
  155. “Sly”: Hard Earned Success
  156. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 7th, 2024
  157. Upside or Downside, a Blessing or a Curse: It All Depends on Your Perspective
  158. The Iron Law of Human Behavior: Selfishness, Laziness and Incentives
  159. The Problem with Rage: My Ongoing Process of Anger Management
  160. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 31st, 2024
  161. Living an International Life: Geo-Arbitrage at its Finest
  162. The Unspoken Factor in Startups & Entrepreneurship: Faith & Self Belief
  163. The Dark Moments of Doubt: Learning Not to Quit
  164. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 24th, 2024
  165. Beware of Life on Easy Mode: Stuck in the Matrix
  166. Everyone Needs a Sanctuary: Finding Your Shelter in a World of Chaos
  167. Preparing for War: Losing An Outdated Mindset (Geopolitically Speaking)
  168. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 17th, 2024
  169. Blind Leading the Blind: Copycatting in Emerging Markets
  170. Fear and Self Loathing: The Result of Not Betting on Yourself
  171. Getting into the Right Rooms: The Universal Law of The Most Successful People
  172. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 10th, 2024
  173. If Your Life Sucks, It’s Your Fault: Taking Total Personal Ownership (My thousandth and ongoing reminder)
  174. This is Why No One Will Remember Your Name: Why You Need to Do Hard, Difficult Things
  175. Be Careful for What You Wish For: Life Gives You What You Want Not What You Need
  176. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 3rd, 2024
  177. Maniac on a Mission: the David Senra Story
  178. Dominate The Year: Your Net Worth Will Never Exceed Your Level of Personal Development
  179. The Bystander Effect: More is Less & Why Big is Dumb
  180. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 25th, 2024
  181. Don’t be Sad, Get Mad: Your Catalyst to Action
  182. “Saving Paradise”: You Can’t Run From Your Past
  183. The Constant Lesson: You Only Ever Learn the Hard Way
  184. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 18th, 2024
  185. A Soldiers Funeral in Lviv: Reminder of Life and Freedom
  186. Apologizing is Hard: Ego and Pride is the Barrier to Growth
  187. The Old Path Is Broke: The Life Deferral Plan Makes NO Sense
  188. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 11th, 2024
  189. It’s Supposed to Be Hard: Life in Startup Land in 2024
  190. Before Living a Beautiful Life, You Need to Know What It Looks Like: Tools For Figuring it Out
  191. If It’s Too Good to be True, It Probably Is: The Iron Law of Life
  192. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 4th, 2024
  193. You Have to Pick a Side Eventually: The Case for the West
  194. No Risk, No Reward Too: We Need More Risk Takers
  195. The Brothers Sun: A Look into Taiwanese Family life, Gangsters and Startups
  196. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 28th, 2024
  197. Building Businesses in New Frontiers: A Thirst for Adventure Abroad
  198. Don’t Go to Davos: There is an Expiration Date for Everything
  199. Tragedy Leads to Enlightenment: A Reminder That Life Is Short
  200. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 21st, 2024
  201. The Unsexy but Critical: Business Operations
  202. If You Worry, You Shouldn’t Be Worried; If You aren’t worrying, You Should Be Worried
  203. Celebrate Your Wins: The Key to Good Morale and Happiness
  204. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 14th, 2024
  205. Revenge of the Angry Nerds: A More Competitive & Even More Ruthless Time in Silicon Valley
  206. You don’t have to be Rich to Live a Rich Life: Wanting Versus Needing
  207. Staying Sane in an Insane World: Charity Starts at Home
  208. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 7th, 2024
  209. A Child’s Sense of Wonder: Finding Awe in Life
  210. Holiday Hell: Why Holidays Are Hard for Most People
  211. Diet Matters: Geo-arbitraging Food & Eating

2023 158

  1. A 2023 Recap & Retrospective: Surviving A Hard Year
  2. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 31st, 2023
  3. If You Don’t Laugh, You Cry: Have a Sense of Humor
  4. "Sultan": Bollywood Movie Life Wisdom
  5. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 24th, 2023
  6. Winter Doldrums: A Season to Hibernate and Rest
  7. It Was the Best of Times and the Worst of Times: The Simultaneous Rising and Fall of Standards in America
  8. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 17th, 2023
  9. Traveling the World While Young: The Pathless Path and Career Limiting Move?
  10. Time is Luck: Being Present in Life
  11. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 10th, 2023
  12. Overcoming Scarcity Mindset: Dropping Cheapskate Asian Immigrant Habits
  13. Pain Equals Future Success: Wisdom from Grim Hustle
  14. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 3rd, 2023
  15. Building in Public and Showing Your Receipts: Differentiation in the Age of Grifters
  16. Parallels in History: America in 2023=Late Roman Republic
  17. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 26th, 2023
  18. Wear Your Scars with Pride: Experience is Everything
  19. Be an Askhole: Curiosity is King
  20. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 19th, 2023
  21. It’s A Great Time to Be Alive: Opportunity is Everywhere
  22. Maximum Bullish: Travels to Ukraine
  23. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 12th, 2023
  24. Kazakhstan & Central Asia is Hot: The Re-Emerging Silk Road
  25. Prague Flashback: Reliving The Past
  26. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 5th, 2023
  27. The One Person Billion Dollar Company: A Possible Future of Business
  28. Doing The Hard Thing: Staying Positive & Taking Action When The World Has Gone Mad
  29. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 29th, 2023
  30. Train Ride Into a War Zone: Returning to Kyiv (Warning: A Political Rant)
  31. Feeling Like Crap: Surviving Personal Down Cycles
  32. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 22nd, 2023
  33. Becoming a Complete And Better You: The New Modern Renaissance Man
  34. Life Without Constraints Leads to Crazy: Love the Process
  35. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 15th, 2023
  36. Counter Lesson from the “Summer of 69”: Improving Your Life Every Day & Every Year
  37. Back to the Future in Venture Capital: Small is Beautiful
  38. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 8th, 2023
  39. The Present & Near Future Alpha in Tech: Rise of Private Equity & Micro Private Equity
  40. Ignorance is Costly: Be Curious
  41. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 1st, 2023
  42. Learning from Italian Chefs & Stanley Tucci
  43. The Storm on the Horizon: Get Ready
  44. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 24th, 2023
  45. Lessons from the Borderlands: Innovation & Good Things Happen at the Edges
  46. Unhappy in Paradise: Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side
  47. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 17th, 2023
  48. There is No Finish Line: Playing the Long Game
  49. Shall We Dance: Get Some Hobbies and Passions for a Better Life
  50. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 10th, 2023
  51. The Only Certainty: Death as a Compass
  52. Entering a Scary New World: Unipolar Hegemony to MultiPolar World
  53. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 3rd, 2023
  54. The Extreme Edge is Where the Magic Happens: Pain and Suffering is the Catalyst
  55. Revolution: World Turned Upside Down
  56. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 27th, 2023
  57. Judgement Day is Coming: Better Get Fit
  58. Have Gun, Will Travel: Why Hustlers Win Deals
  59. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 20th, 2023
  60. The Time Value of Money: The Key lesson of Wealth
  61. May the Arrogant Not Flourish: Pride and Ego Still Kills
  62. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 13th, 2023
  63. You Don’t Make Money, You Take Money: A New View on Business
  64. Why Save the Good Stuff for Later?: Enjoy the Moment
  65. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 6th, 2023
  66. Lemons Ripen Early: Playing the Long Game
  67. Avoid Boring People: A Good Rule of Life
  68. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 30th, 2023
  69. Arrogance is the Leading Indicator to Failure in Startups and Life
  70. Preparing for the Spikes: Seasonality in Business and Life
  71. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 23rd, 2023
  72. Small Wins Eventually Leads to Big Wins
  73. Big Decisions, Big Actions=Big Results, Small Decisions=Small or No Results: Fix Your Life NOW!
  74. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 16th, 2023
  75. Relentless, Constant Pressure: Don’t Stop Until it’s Over
  76. School is Uncool: The Good & Bad of a Formal Education
  77. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 9th, 2023
  78. Be Like Water (Again & Always): The Power of Consistency and Acceptance
  79. Lessons from “Limitless”: Biohacking for Longevity
  80. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 2nd, 2023
  81. Money is Energy And Energy Needs Big Goals to Channel It: Learning This Natural Law
  82. Hip Hop & Venture Capital: So Many Different Permutations That Work
  83. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 25th, 2023
  84. All In to Win: the Power of Will
  85. Be Kind: Treat Everyone Like it’s Their Last Day
  86. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 18th, 2023
  87. Dependencies are Dangerous: Self Reliance and Diversification is the Cure
  88. Mundane Dreams Equals a Mundane Life: Existing in the Matrix
  89. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 11th, 2023
  90. Lessons from a Road Warrior: My Routine for Surviving Jet Lag
  91. Beauty Comes from Pain: My Life in Silicon Valley
  92. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 4th, 2023
  93. The Battle of Midway: Heroism in War
  94. Top Gun Maverick: Lessons in Self Sacrifice & Doing the Right Thing
  95. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 28th, 2023
  96. Health is Wealth: Never Forget This
  97. The Blind Side: Lessons in Courage and Honor
  98. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 21st, 2023
  99. Don’t Be A Jerk to Service People: Being Kind Pays
  100. Your Enemies Keep You Young: Embracing Your Competitors and Challenges
  101. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 14th, 2023
  102. Trapped Between Ego & the Environment: The Challenges of Personal Change Management
  103. Select Yourself: Truth from Darwinism & “Billions”
  104. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 7th, 2023
  105. The Price of Rebellion and Supporting a BIG Cause: There is Always a Major Price to Pay
  106. Chaos is a Ladder: Your Mindset to Thriving in Massive Change
  107. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 30th, 2023
  108. Learning to Say NO: YES is the Fast Track to Chaos
  109. Get Your Sh-t Together: Reliability is King
  110. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 23rd, 2023
  111. If It Doesn’t Make Dollars, It Doesn’t Make Sense
  112. Japan is the Best: A Code and The Search for Perfection
  113. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 16th, 2023
  114. Lessons from TinTin: An Unquenchable Thirst for Adventure
  115. Turning Red: Growing Up in the West in an Asian Immigrant Family
  116. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 9th, 2023
  117. Everything has an expiration Date: Overstaying your Welcome
  118. Massively Relevant Lessons from a Cowboy’s Life
  119. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 2nd, 2023
  120. Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold?: Living Well is Winning
  121. Ruthlessness Wins: Extreme Behavior in Highly Competitive Markets
  122. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 26th, 2023
  123. The Contractor & the Death of Loyalty: We Are All Him
  124. Life is Unfair: Get Over It
  125. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 19th, 2023
  126. No Margin of Error: Lessons from Small Countries and Smaller Companies
  127. Efficiency & Over Optimization: the Path to Neurotic Unhappiness
  128. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 12th, 2023
  129. Yellowstone Wisdom: Life is One Long Lesson
  130. The Modern Way of Escaping Your Problems: Working, Over-scheduling & Travel
  131. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 5th, 2023
  132. You Self Select When You come to America: A Harder life Equates to Greater Opportunities
  133. Risks are a Fact of Life: Take More of Them
  134. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 26th, 2023
  135. Business and Family, Family and Business: Neither do They Meet
  136. Kingmaker: Executing Ruthlessly in the Shadows
  137. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 19th, 2023
  138. The Pitfalls of Hero Worship & Human Models: There is Always a Price
  139. The Best Things in Life are Surprises: Overturning Mental Paradigms
  140. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 12th, 2023
  141. Amateurs Versus Professionals: You Need Both on Your Investing Team
  142. The Dangerous Power of Myths & Narratives: Don’t Overestimate Your Competition
  143. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 5th, 2023
  144. Better to invest in Yourself First: You are the Best Returning Asset
  145. Good Times Create Weak People: The Reckoning in Silicon Valley
  146. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 29th, 2023
  147. "Chips on Shoulders, Leads to Chips in Pockets": The Rage to Compete
  148. Typecasting vs Transformation: Career Lessons from Hollywood
  149. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 22nd, 2023
  150. The Power of New Beginnings: Lessons from Past Great Adventurers and the Great Gatsby
  151. Overcoming Setbacks: the Mental Challenge for ALL Entrepreneurs
  152. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 15th, 2023
  153. To be Great, you have to Risk Looking Stupid: Big Swings Lead to Big Wins and Losses
  154. Ronin Versus Samurai: Career Lessons from Medieval Japan
  155. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 8th, 2023
  156. Easing into the Year: It’s a Marathon, not a Sprint
  157. Survival and World Domination: Mindset & Attitudes Matter
  158. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 1st, 2023

2022 157

  1. Always Be Prepared to Pay: There is NO Free Lunch
  2. The Godfather: A Movie Classic Full of Life Lessons for Men
  3. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 25th, 2022
  4. Nostalgia: It’s a Hell of a Drug
  5. Lessons from the Hell’s Angels: Taking Care of Business
  6. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 18th, 2022
  7. The 3 Levels of Business: The Framework for Your Career Growth
  8. Breaking Through the Matrix: Create Businesses and Learn about the Rules of Money for Financial Independence
  9. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 11th, 2022
  10. "Happy at Any Cost": Lessons from the Amazing Life and Tragedy of Tony Hsieh
  11. We’re All Broken Inside: If Successful, Even More So The Case
  12. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 4th, 2022
  13. Becoming a Monster: The Path and Philosophy for Great Success and Growth
  14. Going Home is Hard, Staying Home is Harder
  15. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 27th, 2022
  16. Player Versus Player: Life is Work & Pain
  17. Global Maximum Versus Local Maximum: Understand What Level You Are Truly Competing At
  18. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 20th, 2022
  19. Be a Live Player: How to be Exceptional in Life
  20. Knowing When to Quit: Sometimes You Have to Move On
  21. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 13th, 2022
  22. The Path to Progress, Fulfillment & Fun: Taking Risks
  23. Easy Come, Easy Go: Understanding the Universal Law of Money & Success
  24. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 6th, 2022
  25. The Dumbest Person in the Room: Always Slightly Behind the Curve in Silicon Valley
  26. Limiting Beliefs: Invert, Invert, Invert to Get to Bigger & Better Life
  27. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 30th, 2022
  28. The Amazing Age of Access: Parkour as a Metaphor
  29. Let Your Rage Flow: Anger as a Mechanism for Progress and Achievement
  30. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 23rd, 2022
  31. Die with Honor: Think Long Term & Go Down Fighting
  32. Infinite Pacing: Activity & Inactivity, Rest & Recover to an Interesting Life
  33. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 16th, 2022
  34. ‘The Guardian’: A Story of Mentorship, Transitions and Sacrifice
  35. What Does a Growth Mindset and Tokyo Drifting Have to do With each other?: Never Underestimate People
  36. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 9th, 2022
  37. The Agony and Ecstasy: The Blade Cuts Both Ways
  38. Idleness is the Devil’s Workshop: Cursed are the Idle, Blessed are the Busy
  39. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 2nd, 2022
  40. The First Rule of Personal Finance & Happiness: Pay Yourself First!
  41. Ageism & The Reality of Silicon Valley: Beware of Older Tech Folks (Like Me)
  42. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 25th, 2022
  43. The Ground Truth: Go to the Frontline!
  44. Wisdom from My Violin Teacher: Relationships & Grand Memories Are the Whole Point of Life
  45. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 18th, 2022
  46. Dreams Versus Reality: You Need Both To Truly Live & Thrive
  47. Living in our Own Matrix: Reality is a Choice
  48. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 11th, 2022
  49. Feast or Famine: Know Where you Are in the Cycle
  50. The Breaking of the Modern Mind: The Curse of the Attention Economy
  51. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 4th, 2022
  52. The Right Way to Look at Personal Finance: Lifestyle Cash versus Building Equity
  53. The Real Point of Life: The Search for Beauty
  54. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 28th, 2022
  55. Travel as a Tool: Why You Need to be Global
  56. Recreating 2006: My Magic Year of Personal HyperGrowth
  57. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 21st, 2022
  58. The Eternal War: the War Within Ourselves
  59. The Most Important Thing in Life: Just be in the Game
  60. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 14th, 2022
  61. Finding Your Happy Place: The World is Your Oyster
  62. Age is Just a Number: Older is Not Wiser, Younger is Not More Youthful
  63. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Aug 7th, 2022
  64. Data Volume and Sample Set Matters: Becoming a Better Venture Investor
  65. Pain is Information: Embrace it
  66. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 31st, 2022
  67. Realistic Idealism: The Way to Progress
  68. Every Little bit Helps: The Game of Inches
  69. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 24th, 2022
  70. Don’t Be Sorry, Be Better
  71. Tolerance versus Intolerance: Setting Rules for Life
  72. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 17th, 2022
  73. Be Like a Light Bulb: The Importance of Resting Ethic
  74. The Moral Imperative of Every Man: Be Hard to Kill
  75. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 10th, 2022
  76. Brutality Works: The “Whiplash” School of Education & Training
  77. Pain is Information: A Tool for Self Development & Better Self Management
  78. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 3rd, 2022
  79. The Self Destructive Nature of Humans: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
  80. Strategic Depth & Personal Finances: Part Political Rant & Part Financial Freedom
  81. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 26th, 2022
  82. It’s Okay to Be Different & Weird: But You Better Be Strong Too
  83. We Have All the Time in the World: Living in the Present
  84. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 19th, 2022
  85. Treating Life Choices Like Playing in a Casino: A Framework
  86. You Need a Tribe: Lone Wolves Don’t Make it
  87. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 12th, 2022
  88. “100 Foot Wave”: Why so Many Entrepreneurs are like Surfers
  89. The Rule of 7: Entrepreneurship and Financial Independence is Key to Survival & Freedom
  90. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 5th, 2022
  91. Having A Big Mission & Taking Action: A Moral Imperative
  92. Parsing Out the Truth As the Truth Will Set You Free: Facing Painful Reality
  93. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 29th, 2022
  94. Tripwires Over TimeFrames: Using PreSet Rules for Preventing Loss & Pain
  95. Batten Down the Hatches: Massive Waves Coming
  96. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 22nd, 2022
  97. Purpose & Mission=Legacy
  98. Details Matter: Importance of Operations and Process in Growing Startups
  99. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 15th, 2022
  100. Having Life Heroes: Modeling Behavior & Attitudes
  101. “What’s the Point of Having F-ck You Money, If You Never say F-ck You”: The Case for Chasing Financial Independence
  102. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 8th, 2022
  103. The Human Law of Unintended Consequences: How the Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
  104. The Inevitable Great Reckoning: An American Story and A Personal One
  105. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 1st, 2022
  106. Counting the Uncountable: Power of Intangibles
  107. 9 Meals to Crazy: The Real World Strikes Back
  108. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Apr 24th, 2022
  109. Tactical Darwinism: Survival is Victory
  110. The First Step & Goal for EVERYONE Who Wants True Freedom: Have a Financial Cushion of 12 Months Cash in the Bank
  111. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Apr 17th, 2022
  112. Celebrate When It’s Over: Complacency Kills and Paranoia Wins
  113. Facing Your Fears: The True Underlying Reasons for Your Bad Decisions and Bad Behavior
  114. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Apr 10th, 2022
  115. Rise of the Marcher Lords: Danger from the Edges & the Importance of Environment
  116. The Death Zone and the Will to Win: Why Big Companies and Old Powers Lose
  117. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Apr 3rd, 2022
  118. The Alpinist: Amazing Life Lessons on the Frontiers of Climbing
  119. Forced Obsolescence is a Feature, Not a Bug: Staying Relevant in the Tech Industry (or Any Industry)
  120. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Mar 27th, 2022
  121. Putting Things in Perspective: Feeding Gratitude
  122. Living on Multiple Grids: Towards Being a Sovereign Individual
  123. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Mar 20th, 2022
  124. The Hell of Future Spiraling: How to Manage Uncertainty
  125. When Sadness Turns to Rage: Managing Yourself
  126. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Mar 13th, 2022
  127. Fighting FOMO: Learning to Play Your Own Game
  128. Revenge of the Real World: Painful Implications of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
  129. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Mar 6th, 2022
  130. Power of Obliquity: Having the Right End Goals
  131. New Year Habit: Doing This One Thing Every Day Guarantees A Better Life
  132. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 27th, 2022
  133. Bad Days: Why It’s Okay to Wallow In your Pain (For A Short Time) Before You Face the Future
  134. “Apocalypse Now Redux”: Lessons from the Heart of Darkness
  135. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 20th, 2022
  136. Lions Led by Donkeys: “A World Undone”
  137. Why Conspiracy Theorists are Usually Wrong: Because Humans Can’t stop being Humans
  138. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 13th, 2022
  139. Be Water: The Story of Bruce Lee, An Original Cultural Pioneer
  140. Entering A Global and Decentralized World: Why You Need to Both Localize and Internationalize NOW!
  141. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Feb 6th, 2022
  142. Macro versus Micro: the Challenges of Investing Well as a Venture Capitalist
  143. Staring Down the Abyss: the Reality of Entrepreneurship
  144. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 30th, 2022
  145. “The Lost City of Z”: Adventures on the Frontier
  146. Quality over Quantity: Tracking Smart People to Find the Future
  147. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 23rd, 2022
  148. Work Life Choices, Not Work Life Balance
  149. “Hard Water”: The Magic of Learning & Mixing Across Sports & Other Disciplines
  150. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 16th, 2022
  151. "YellowStone": The TV series that Captures the American Paradox
  152. Notes from “Roadrunner”: Awesome life lessons from the legendary Anthony Bourdain
  153. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 9th, 2022
  154. Trauma with a small T: Therapy & How to Learn About What Drives you
  155. Why is Everyone So Angry?: Behavioral Psychology in the time of Pandemics and Lockdowns
  156. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Jan 2nd, 2022
  157. Things Fall Apart: The First Step to Rebirth & Rebuilding in the New Year

2021 156

  1. "Our Brand is Crisis": Valuable Lessons from a Fictional Political Campaign
  2. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 26th, 2021
  3. Mental Health is About Protecting Your Company’s Most Important Asset: YOU as the Founder
  4. Scaling is F—Ng Hard: Hard Lessons Hard Earned
  5. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 19th, 2021
  6. Building, Managing and Living by Values: The Importance of Principles
  7. Startup Now!: Entrepreneurship is the Ultimate Vehicle for Personal Development
  8. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 12th, 2021
  9. Hustle versus Calm: A Call for a New Way of Building Startups
  10. A Walk Down Memory Lane: Using the Past to Improve your Future
  11. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 5th, 2021
  12. The Biggest Loser: Wasted Time & Wasted Potential
  13. Amateurs talk Strategy, Professionals talk Logistics: the Critical Importance of Supply Chains
  14. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 28th, 2021
  15. Pity the Loud, Rude and Belligerent: External Behavior as the Ultimate Tell
  16. Everybody Wants to be a Gangster, Till its Time to Do Gangster SH-T
  17. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 21st, 2021
  18. Errors of Omission, or Errors of Commission: Some Lessons from Hundreds of Startup Investments
  19. Freedom is Never Free: Earning an Exit and Building a Global Lifestyle
  20. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 14th, 2021
  21. No Pain, No Gain: The Hard Truth of Life
  22. The Perpetual Outsider: The Big Benefits of Not Belonging
  23. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 7th, 2021
  24. Local Maximum Versus Global Maximum: Lessons for non-US Startups
  25. WAGMI & GMI over NGMI: Building the World You Want to Live In
  26. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 31st, 2021
  27. Keep it Simple, Stupid: Focussing on the Basics
  28. The Biggest Little Farm: Lessons for Life from Nature
  29. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 24th, 2021
  30. Food Porn: What We Can Learn from Japan
  31. Environmental Awareness, Breakpoints, Pride & Red Lines: Lessons for Life and Investing
  32. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 17th, 2021
  33. Your Inside Game is More Important than the Outside Game
  34. The Extremes of America: Why It’s both the Best & Worst Country on the Planet
  35. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 10th, 2021
  36. The Cycle of Life: Career, Crisis and Family
  37. Rip the Bandage Off NOW: There is No Better Time for Personal Change
  38. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 3rd, 2021
  39. Iron Versus Gold: Learning to Love Good Times and Bad Times
  40. Consistency is King & Queen in Startups, Business & Life
  41. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 26th, 2021
  42. Self Sovereignty Versus Growing Government: Why You Need Citizenship Insurance
  43. Lessons, Not Regrets: Missing Life Changing Wealth Multiple times
  44. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 19th, 2021
  45. The Dangers of Hedonic Adoption to Your Personal Finances
  46. The Future of Work & the inevitable Rise of Entrepreneurship
  47. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 12th, 2021
  48. Make your Life an Adventure: Lessons from “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
  49. Scale Kills Quality: Big is the Enemy of Great
  50. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 5th, 2021
  51. Adapt or Die: My Personal Life Lessons from "Downton Abbey"
  52. EDM DJs: The Bleeding Edge and Early Model for Creator Economy Entrepreneurs
  53. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 29th, 2021
  54. The Practitioner Preacher Model
  55. Be Perfect: Inspiration from “Friday Night Lights”
  56. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 22nd, 2021
  57. Dogma is Death for the Brain: There is No One Single Way to Do Something
  58. Deadlines, Deadlines & Big Public Deadlines: The Key to Personal Productivity
  59. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 15th, 2021
  60. The Vision Board Exercise: A Tool for Progress & Personal Growth
  61. Back to the Future: Modern Entrepots and the Rise of the City-States
  62. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 8th, 2021
  63. Nothing is Truly Free
  64. Everyone will be a Creator, a Business and an Investor: The New Global Entrepreneurial Generation
  65. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 1st, 2021
  66. Check Yourself Before you Wreck Yourself
  67. Outsiders versus Insiders Drive the Cycle of Innovation
  68. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 25th, 2021
  69. Environment Matters: Location, Location, Location
  70. The Next Decade: Reformation and Renaissance Framework
  71. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 18th, 2021
  72. The Aggregation of Marginal Gains: No Such thing as Overnight Success
  73. The Power of the Conscious and Subconscious Mind: Language, Programming and Mindset Matters
  74. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 11th, 2021
  75. The Rise of Edtech: One BIG result of the 2020 Pandemic
  76. Business does not need to be Busy-ness: the rise of Calm businesses
  77. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 4th, 2021
  78. You Earn the Right to Grow: Commitment, Focus and Prioritization
  79. Mixing & Remixing: On Personal Identity and Reinvention
  80. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 27th, 2021
  81. Gaming is the Extreme Frontier of Business: Time Machine Investing and Operating
  82. Have Fun Getting Kidnapped: Why Stealth, Privacy & Pseudonymity is the Future
  83. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 20th, 2021
  84. “Cause My Life is Dope and I Do Dope Sh-t!”
  85. Eat the Frog As Early as Possible in Your Career
  86. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 13th, 2021
  87. The Pitfalls of Operators as Investors
  88. The Caesar’s Palace Coup
  89. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 6th, 2021
  90. Bubble or Revolution: Why Not Both?
  91. Up in the Air
  92. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 30th, 2021
  93. The Future of Work: Are You Above or Below the Algorithm?
  94. Riches Among “Supposed” Ruins: The New Era of Globe Trotting Capitalists
  95. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 23rd, 2021
  96. Let the Sleeper Awake!: Change and Discomfort is Growth
  97. Financial Independence is Personal Independence: How to Become More Sovereign
  98. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 16th, 2021
  99. Builders as Venture Capitalists: The Paypal Mafia leading the Charge (as always!)
  100. Hard Times Breed Hard People: Necessity Facilitates Innovation & Opportunity
  101. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 9th, 2021
  102. Be Long Term Greedy
  103. How to Make "Remote Work" Work for you
  104. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 2nd, 2021
  105. Why Most Venture Capital Content Marketing is So Bad: Actually why MOST Content Marketing is BAD in general
  106. Time Management in the Age of Leverage: Filters for Prioritization
  107. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 25th, 2021
  108. Be Like New Zealand!
  109. The Magic 5 Years
  110. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 18th, 2021
  111. Going to Monk Mode
  112. Fundraising is Supposed to be Hard!
  113. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 11th, 2021
  114. Cooks Versus Chefs
  115. The Theory of Constraints for Startups: A Prioritization Mechanism
  116. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 4th, 2021
  117. “Growth Investing” Versus “Value Investing” Style in Venture Capital
  118. The Fools Theory
  119. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 28th, 2021
  120. You Either Win or You Learn
  121. Watch the Next Big Frontier: Africa
  122. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 21st, 2021
  123. "The Perfect Day" Exercise
  124. Optimism versus Cynicism
  125. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 14th, 2021
  126. Proximity is Power & Other Nuggets of Insight from Shaan Puri
  127. Are you on a Bridge or a Pier?
  128. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 7th, 2021
  129. Safe is Unsafe, Unsafe is Safe: Managing Risk
  130. The 5 Phases of Countries & Companies
  131. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 28th, 2021
  132. Social Ingenuity ALWAYS Lags Technological Ingenuity: The Biggest Challenge Facing Society & Startups
  133. The Barbell Principle
  134. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 21th, 2021
  135. Why the Best & Most Accomplished People are Spikey
  136. Missionaries Versus Mercenaries
  137. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 14th, 2021
  138. Laid, Made or Paid: The Drivers of Consumer Product Adoption
  139. Engineering Outcomes: How Silicon Valley is becoming more like Wall Street (in a Good Way)
  140. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 7th, 2021
  141. There are Many Different Paths to Building a Business (aka Startups)
  142. How Do I Recruit Great Talent for my Startup: When I can’t pay the same as (Insert “Big Rich Tech Giant”) here
  143. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 31st, 2021
  144. Direct Line to Revenue is What Matters for your Startup (and your Career)
  145. Galapagos Island Effect in Technology: Japan, China & South Korea
  146. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 24th, 2021
  147. Startups Die of Suicide, Not Murder
  148. What are the Traits of the Best Startup Founders
  149. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 17th, 2021
  150. Revenue Forecasts & Projections for Seed Stage Startups ????
  151. Importance of Differentiation: The Fight Against Monoculture
  152. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 10th, 2021
  153. Flash is Trash: Go Stealth in a K-shaped Economy
  154. Alt-VC: How the Shine is off Venture Capital and New Models of Startup Financing
  155. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 3rd, 2021
  156. The Gartner Hype Cycle & Trough of Disillusionment for Investing:

2020 83

  1. The Fish Rots from the Head
  2. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 27th, 2020
  3. Venture Fundable Businesses
  4. Risks of Endowment Style Investing for Personal Finances:
  5. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 20th, 2020
  6. Operator-Investor Nano Funds are The Future (and Present)
  7. Trends and Venture Capital Sheep-ism
  8. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 13th, 2020
  9. The Portfolio Entrepreneur
  10. High Opportunity Places vs. High Quality of Life: The Trade Offs
  11. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 6th, 2020
  12. Old Man Yells at (Tech) Cloud
  13. Media Company of One
  14. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 29th, 2020
  15. Why UX & Design Matter
  16. Entering the Post Covid 19 World: Get to “Pole Position”
  17. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 22nd, 2020
  18. The Jungle, The Dirt Road & The Freeway:
  19. The Sovereign Individual & The Idea of the Global Citizen Sandwich
  20. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 15th, 2020
  21. Remote is the New Silicon Valley
  22. Airplane Arbitrage is Moneyball for Venture Capital
  23. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 8th, 2020
  24. Looking for Shiny Dimes
  25. The American Main Street Economy Will be Rebuilt on Tech
  26. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 1st, 2020
  27. The Powerful Addiction of Variable Rewards
  28. Why Gaming Industry is so interesting
  29. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 25th, 2020
  30. Platform Dependency is No longer Heresy in B2B
  31. Play Against Rubes
  32. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 18th, 2020
  33. What Founders can learn from Investors
  34. Foolishly Trading Time for Money in the Age of Leverage
  35. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 11th, 2020
  36. The Future is being Multi-Hyphen
  37. “Action Creates Information”
  38. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 4th, 2020
  39. The “Red Test”
  40. After Hardship Comes Happiness
  41. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 27th, 2020
  42. The Importance of Personal Brand in VC:
  43. Work like a Lion, not like a Cow
  44. SPAC Attack
  45. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 20th, 2020
  46. Silicon Valley Companies should NOT be Role Models for Management Systems
  47. Why Career Promiscuity Is Important in Silicon Valley
  48. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 13th, 2020
  49. Business Development (BD) & Partnerships Make NO sense for most Seed Stage Startups
  50. Turning of the Corkscrew: from Burn to Bust
  51. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 6th, 2020
  52. The Right Leader at the Right Place & Time (or NOT): The Crucible of History and Business
  53. The Evolution of SaaS
  54. Taiwan: The Hinge of the Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Arms Race
  55. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 30th, 2020
  56. The “Rise” & The “Grind”
  57. Startups, Do the Foundational Work: Taking Shortcuts Cut You Short
  58. The Master Plan of Gary Vaynerchuk
  59. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 23rd, 2020
  60. Startups Founders: Get an Executive Coach!
  61. The “Launchpad” Business Concept
  62. The Slow & Steady Unbundling (aka Democratization) of Venture Capital
  63. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 16th, 2020
  64. The Importance of “Fallow Time” aka Sabbaticals and Extended Breaks
  65. Superman (or Superwoman) Syndrome
  66. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 9th, 2020
  67. Why Startups have the edge over most Big Company competitors
  68. The Simplest Sales Framework Ever for Startups: The W3 Method
  69. Meet the New King, Same as the Old King:
  70. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 2nd, 2020
  71. Surviving 5 Months of Quarantine (and Beyond):
  72. Importance of Etiquette as a Savviness-Signal in Silicon Valley
  73. Lessons from the “Black Death” in the Middle Ages & Its’ Relevance for us in the Modern Post Covid World
  74. Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 26, 2020
  75. Why Most Celebrities (Hollywood, Professional Sports, Music Stars) Suck as Startup Investors
  76. Why Most Founders Don’t Take Good Advice
  77. Marvin's Favorite Weekly Reads (Normally Sunday)
  78. Culture is the Company and the Founder is the Culture
  79. Keep Pushing & Keep Fighting:
  80. The Magical Power of Your Environment and Who You Surround Yourself With
  81. Lessons from the “Forrest Gump” of Silicon Valley
  82. “Fast Money” versus “Dumb Money” versus “Smart Money”
  83. Welcome to the Hard Fork by Marvin Liao: