Archive for April, 2010

Goldman Sachs

Friday, April 30th, 2010

I’ve spent most of my life attempting to wipe out vestiges of judgment. It’s not that judgment is necessarily bad. I’ve just always felt that observation tended to be more accurate, because it was judgmentally neutral. But, I do have to say, that my fundamental bias away from judgment and towards observation was severely strained as [...]

A Balmy Night in Nashville

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

When I sit out here tonight, I’m reminded of the hitchhiking trip Dave Strobel and I took from Notre Dame to New Orleans for our spring break 1970. It was a long time ago, of course. And yet, as I sit on the dock and feel the air tonight, I feel the exact same sensation. [...]

The Eyes of God

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Was it a Woody Allen movie in some prior incarnation?  It must have been decades ago, but it is imprinted to this day.  I don’t remember the name of it, or the actors (although Martin Landau comes to mind…).  But I was never the same from that point on. The eyes of God see all because the [...]

Definitiion of God

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Definition of God as the set of all sets; namely infinity.

Greatest Pain

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

You know, the greatest pain for me…was the loss of associates…many of whom had been with me for a decade or more.  We had the opportunity, at a prior time, to shut down the entire Orlando seminar operation and to operate the very profitable WizeTrade division we had built exclusively out of Dallas. We could have maintained [...]

Kosmos

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Kosmos:  The totality of all that is.