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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Simple Advice, Difficult to Execute
I don’t remember how young I was when my Uncle Art asked me if I wanted to know how to make money in the stock market. He said “Buy low, sell high. That’s [...]
Day-Glo Orange Means CRAZY!
Monday, August 25th, 2008Funny Story…
One day at work, I was leading a working meeting. It was productive with lots of good discussion and time spent at the whiteboard writing down process maps and other corporate stuff. I had called the meeting, so I stayed at the whiteboard to record what people were saying, asked leading questions and [...]
AAPL & PGR
Monday, August 18th, 2008More than two years ago, I wrote a post comparing these two companies.
The situation today, August 2008:
Price
Market Cap
Net Income(last quarter)
Total Revenue(last quarter)
Apple (AAPL)
175.85
155,770
1,072
7,464
Progressive Insurance (PGR)
18.37
12,524
215
3,536
(All information in this table taken from closing numbers on 15-Aug-08. All dollar values in the table in millions.)
…and in May 2006:
Price
Market Cap
Net [...]
Walkability, Density, Noise & Neighborhoods
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Walkability and Noise
Being able to walk around my neighborhood is important to me. It’s one of the key things I considered when considering where I would purchase a house. I wanted to live in a place where I could easily walk to what I needed and could drive to many more.
One friend recently [...]
Inventing the Invented
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008“Well stolen is half-finished.”
If I could remember who first told me that, I’d buy that person a drink. It’s been some of the most valuable advice I’ve ever received. Once I started using it, in my professional life, things suddenly became orders-of-magnitude easier…
Well Stolen
One of the things that frustrate me in the corporate [...]