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Patience Is Precious
As I type it is about as far from Christmas as you can get in the calendar. The turn around day was last week, June 25th. Since then there have been three pieces of good news that seem like presents … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, clients, consulting, eyewear, frugal, frugality, LTBH, Microsoft, Microvision, mortgage, MSFT, MVIS, photos, picop, picoprojector, speaking, speaking engagements, stocks, teaching, teaching assignment, work hard
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2014
An encouraging characteristic of good habits, rituals, and regular exercises is that their descriptions and rationales don’t change. Welcome to my semi-annual review of my stocks, and an introduction that hasn’t changed much so copy and paste helps me balance … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, consultant, consulting, credit card, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, entrepreneur, frugality, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, health care, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, markets, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, non-profit, personal finance, Peter Lynch, Real Goods Solar, Retirement, RGSE, RSOL, Silicon Investor, speaker, stocks, wealth
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But Not Yet
As I begin typing, we are less than eight hours away from the Summer Solstice, the beginning of summer (north of the Equator), the farthest the planet gets away from the Sun, and maybe the beginning of much better times. … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, community, consulting, cryptocurrency, debt, entrepreneur, frugality, housing, Intelligent Optimist, investing, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, personal finance, photos, seed funding, stocks, writing, yes magazine
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Trends Shifting Stalwarts
Conventional wisdom held that investing in the stalwarts, the old blue chips, was the way to safely invest. Dull but successful. The market continues to hit new highs, mostly through the action of the biggest companies, that are more a … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, banking, bitcoin, climate change, cryptocurrencies, debt, decentralized, futurist, GERN, GIG, housing, investing, millennials, mortgage, MVIS, off the grid, off-grid, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, personal finance, Retirement, RGSE, singularity, stocks, tiny house, Tiny Houses, urbanization
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Corporations Meet Owners MVIS 2014
People crave stories, poems, plays on words. Analysts crave data. Investors deal in both. Investors in startups have so little data to pick from that investing becomes speculating. When words are the main source of information, it is best to … Continue reading
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Tagged Individual investor, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, wealth
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MVIS Before The 2014 ASM
Welcome to the world of investing in small companies. MicroVision’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders approaches yet again. That’s a good sign. That means they hadn’t gone out of business in the meantime. Seriously, the way I describe MicroVision is that … Continue reading
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Tagged ASM, eyewear, Google Glass, investing, Investor Village, LMRA, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, Showwx, stocks, writing
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We Listen To Stories
Let me tell you a story. What else do writers do? Actually quite a bit within non-fiction. But stories are what we listen to in the news, to inspire change, and even in how we handle money. Objectively we know … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, climate change, Dream. Invest. Live., dystopia, GERN, investing, Microvision, MVIS, occupy, personal finance, statistics, stocks, war, writing
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Ruts Routines Revolutions
April 20th, a fine day for a party. A fine day to celebrate the break from tradition that was the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Most folks thought April 20th, 2014 was Easter. Well, yes; but someone had to spend … Continue reading
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Tagged Bagpiper Don, beer, books, Declaration of Independence, Easter, eggs, entrepreneur, housing, Ideaworth, jobs, Langley, Langley Library, mortgage, MVIS, patriot, Revolutionary War, routine, ruts, Scotland, Sno-Isle, speaking, talking, Thomas Jefferson, traveling rabbit, unemployment, Whidbey
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Googly-eye-ing Disney And Projectors
Smartphones are it! So are tablets. So were laptops. So smartwatches and eyewear and wearable computers shall be. So we can be proud we’re working the trends. You ain’t seen nothing yet, and when the next thing shows up it … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, Apple, DIS, Disney, education, goog, Google Glass, Google+, HCLE, investing, Microvision, museums, MVIS, MW2014, personal finance, picoprojector, smartwatch, social media, stocks, STQRY, wearable computers, wearables
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Geron Ouch And Yet
Great ideas rarely run smooth. Geron, a biotech with disruptive ideas that could redefine medicine and health, is probably years from proving itself, except that it suddenly looked like it would, just as suddenly looks like it won’t, and yet … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, Dendreon, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, investing, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, Provenge, Real Goods Solar, RGSE, RSOL, stocks, wealth
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