Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Is The Richest Person On Earth

Forbes recently released its world’s billionaires list, and Jeff Bezos took the top spot. The Amazon CEO is the first person to accumulate a fortune of more than US$100 billion. Bezos’ net worth was calculated at US$112 billion as of March 6, 2018—an increase of US$73 million from 2017. The … Read More

Tough Mudder, Boredom, and Stoic Philosophy

A Death at Tough Mudder – Outside “The drowning of Avishek Sengupta at an obstacle challenge last April was ruled an accident, but his family and friends believe that the sport’s most prominent company did a terrible job of monitoring safety at a water obstacle called Walk the Plank. Elliott … Read More

Modern Universities, Payday Loans, and Bitcoin Assassinations

The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship – Inc. “By all counts and measures, Bradley Smith is an unequivocal business success. He’s CEO of Rescue One Financial, an Irvine, California-based financial services company that had sales of nearly $32 million last year. Smith’s company has grown some 1,400 percent in the last … Read More

War Tourism, Water Fasting, and Worldwide Capital

The Benefits of a Six-Day Water Fast – GQ “On my second day of fasting, I wake up at 4 A.M. in an unforgiving mood. Rise and do not shine. Rise and moan. It’s dark and cold. Once you take digestion out of the equation, you save tremendous energy, which … Read More

The Online Black Market, the Folly of the F-35, and Putting a Dollar Amount on Life

Escaping the Recession by Boat – Outside “The Kleeman brothers are classic examples of a timeless urge: to do something very different with your life—now, not years from now, even if doing so requires walking away from ordinary comforts and charting a radical, potentially dangerous new course. They’re middle-class Midwesterners … Read More

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