As we head towards the year’s end, it’s a perfect time to review some lessons from the more popular posts of 2019.

What you’ll find below is a collection of lessons from different posts written year. All the topics are sourced from my reading. What I find the most interesting gets shared here, with some thoughts added for effect. The only thing I don’t know in advance is what will be a hit or miss. It’s a lesson on predicting. I stopped guessing years ago.

The rest comes down to you, the readers, since the “best” is what gets read and shared the most. It’s always surprising and exciting when something takes off. So thank you!

This year’s lessons cover a wide range from common and uncommon sense ideas, mistakes, gambling, and bananas (a personal favorite). Charlie Munger was a favored source, along with a few other recognizable names. One lesson goes back 146 years (a fun one to discover).

Of the 91 posts this year, these stood out the most in 2019: Continue Reading…

John Graham was a wealthy pork packer based near the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. His son Pierrepont was headed to Harvard for his first year of college.

That bit of news kicked off a series of letters from ‘ole dad offering advice that started with education.

Of course, Graham is a fictional character in the book Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son written by George Lorimer in 1901 but the advice still works.

The book is filled with early 1900s maxims and wisdom on education, business, life, and more. Continue Reading…