Last week I helped facilitate an all-day business meeting – a mastermind – of large Amazon and e-commerce brands.

Me at the Amazon brands and e-commerce sellers mastermind in NYC

My friend Chad Rubin asked me to support him in organizing the schedule and in keeping energy levels high.

Chad has sold tens of millions of dollars of vacuum filters on Amazon.

He’s famous in the e-commerce world for his blunt communication style mixed with specific, tactical advice. He’s a “Do this, don’t do that” kind of guy.

This mastermind day was part of a conference he founded called Skubana Accelerate. Forty attendees each paid $1,500 to attend the full-day VIP workshop the day after the main conference was over.

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Last night I attended the first performance of The Ear, a new concept in New York City to attract new audiences to classical music.

It was excellent, and I highly recommend it. Their next show is Friday, 16 Nov 2018.

Musicians assemble on stage between short performances.

In the words of its creator, The Ear is:

like ‘The Voice’ for composers, but way rowdier. Nuttier. Irreverent. Cheering in the middle of the music. Heckling the emcee. Drinking. Voting for the pieces you want to hear again.

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This is a money and policy museum located in the City of London. I went and I got to hold a super heavy solid gold bar. Here’s what I learned.

Me holding a solid gold bar. It is kept securely locked inside of a surprisingly well-done case which allows you to lift the bar, but there’s no way it could be stolen. Also gold is hella heavy.

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My company Museum Hack was featured in The New York Times!

It is a great article that gives an overview of renegade tour groups. We are attracting new audiences and making museums more fun.

A Museum Hack tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For the record, it is STILL my favorite museum in the world

Museum Tours for People Who Don’t Like Museum Tours

By Elaine Glusac, July 20, 2018
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Warren Buffett says his first two rules of investing are:

1. Don’t lose money.
2. See rule number one.

I have been thinking about asset allocation and investing a lot lately.

In what could be a terrible decision, I’ve decided to share my learnings here on my blog. I hope someone smarter than me will correct me where I’m wrong and help point me in the right direction towards better learnings.

Disclaimer: I’m not a trained investor, advisor, or financial analyst. I’ve been lucky and have accumulated a portion of money. Now that the markets are up, I feel I have a responsibility to consider and protect my earnings.

Market Cycles

I’ve read a lot recently about how the stock market works in cycles.

There are cycles of growth (a bull market), and cycles of recession (a bear market).

Sample market cycle. I searched Google Images for “market cycle.”

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