The Ice Man

Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Patience can be learned. Having a long attention span and the ability to concentrate on one thing for a long time is a huge advantage. - Warren Buffett

Be brave if you lose and meek if you win. - Harvey Penick

Warren Sumner II ‘Bud’ ran a Buick Dealership in Detroit proper during the great post World War Deux bull market of the 1950’s. WSSIII grew up as an avid golfer later to find himself in the Air Force listening to those Russians funded by the same European Banking Cabal now sold to the populace today. All wars are bankers wars & joining the military after years of programming from movies to popular sentiment can be ‘a way out’ or act as catalyst. In my fathers case living in the Aleutian Islands ensured he was going to college somewhere warm resulting in the choice to move family to the valley of the sun: Arizona State University in Tempe.

Our family returned to Detroit with a departure for an opportunity in Bedford, Pennsylvania. The 

The advisory & consulting businesses in largely securitized western financial world enjoys new magnitudes of largesse. The gap between builders & those who talk the talk appears to be widening with central bank intervention. Bifurcation of entrepreneurs serving the market are becoming increasingly rare to prognostications by manny experts with marionettes by paymasters from centralized financial control.

The choice of USNA Annapolis over early entry ASU Architecture was a conscious choice knowing thyself. Understanding personal limitations and accepting becoming uncomfortable was significant to ensure a chance at a boots on the ground perspective of the world.

Much of the curriculum at The U.S. Naval Academy was statist & counterproductive to the entrepreneurial mind yet possibly a gift as without discipline I would have surely failed. Take what you can apply & move on > Especially if all is accretive to individual growth and personal P & L statement.

A sponsorship by Navy Lacrosse was the reason for conditional acceptance upon completion of a one year enlisted term at NAPS Newport. A red-shirt year was essential as reading, art of research and study was extremely limited with great immaturity. Not sure much has changed!

Todd Butler’s comments about Warren - taking off his British Burberry gloves to shake his hand at church in a Camelhair coat > Awaiting the Navy bus in West Point > Skin in the game. Importance of experiences to find the way to creative builder / designer / entrepreneur.