I was in a meeting the other day and we started talking about a wayfinding sign that indicated it was a 10 minute walk to the nearest subway station. We wondered who had made this sign and ultimately decided that the number should be 10.… Read More
Below is an excerpt from Warren Buffet’s latest annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (2016). It represents an entire section dedicated to American optimism, which is something you’ll notice in most (all?) of his letters. I’m a big believer in optimism, because I find it has… Read More
Tom Gardner and Morgan Housel (The Motley Fool) recently published a LinkedIn article called, Why Does Pessimism Sound So Smart? (Especially When Things Are So Good.) Here is the gist of it: If you say the world has been getting better you may get away… Read More
To be a real estate developer, or at least to be a good real estate developer, I think you need to have a certain kind of personality. Specifically, I think you need to be an optimist. Because if you’re going to take big risks and… Read More
https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work.html Earlier this week I watched the above TED talk called, The happy secret to better work. It’s only 12 minutes long. In it, Shawn Achor argues that we’ve got it all wrong and backwards when it comes to our happiness. We constantly set (moving) goals… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 