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