Love With a Limit: Sending Money Home Without Sinking Your Own Ship
A winter money reset for diaspora families: name it, cap it, and plant something that grows The clocks go back this Sunday. You get an extra hour in bed, and the dark evenings start. For many of us in the diaspora, that’s also when December starts eating our money before December arrives. The flight home, […]
The Street With 100 Front Doors: What America’s 29.1 Million Millionaires Don’t Tell You
Imagine the whole United States shrunk down to a single street. One hundred front doors. Every door is a household. The mix of people on the street matches the country exactly. Now imagine walking down that street with one question: behind which doors is someone worth $1 million or more? New Federal Reserve data released […]
The Wheat, the Tares, and the Press: Why You Can’t Have More of This Without More of That
Every harvest you’ve ever admired had weeds growing in it. Every drop of oil you’ve ever valued came out of a press. We like to talk about outcomes: the portfolio that compounded, the business that finally broke through, the family that moved from a generation of survival to a generation of choice. We say much […]
The Hunter and The Shepherd
Esau Was a Hunter. Jacob Kept a Herd. Everything Else Follows From That. Before Esau and Jacob became a story about inheritance, deception, and destiny, they were two men building very different lives. We have read these brothers through almost every lens available. Favouritism, Deception, Sibling rivalry, Prophecy, Grace. But there is a detail Genesis […]
THE ODYSSEY
Troy Taught Us How to Win. The Odyssey Teaches Us How to Get It Home. Two films, twenty-two years apart, tell one continuous story about money, and almost everybody only studies the first half. In 2004, Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy put Homer’s Iliad on screen: the siege, the horse, the fall of a city. It cost […]
TROY
Ten Years of Force Failed. One Piece of Structure Worked in a Night. The most famous victory in Western literature was not won by a warrior. It was won by an instrument. For ten years, the largest coalition army in Greek legend sat outside the walls of Troy. The catalogue in Book 2 of the […]
Saul to Paul: Your Past Is Sitting on the Wrong Side of the Balance Sheet
What if the chapter of your life you’re most ashamed of is carrying value you’ve never learned how to deploy? We tend to treat our past like a liability: mistakes to hide, failures to forget, seasons we wish had never happened. But Paul’s story challenges that instinct. Before he became the missionary, theologian, church planter, […]
HE LEFT WITH A STAFF AND CAME BACK WITH TWO CAMPS
Part 3 of 3: What Jacob knew about negotiating when you hold none of the power Last issue ended on a cliff. Cain’s line built brilliantly and did not survive. Four industries in seven generations. Zero in eight. Jacob’s line produced twelve business units that became a nation. Same grit, same ambition, same disadvantage, one […]
SENTENCED TO WANDER, HE BUILT A CITY.
Part 2 of 3: What Cain knew about building when your circumstances have been repossessed Last issue, I made a claim: we’ve been reading these men for their sins for three thousand years, and nobody has read them for their books. Here’s the first set of books. Strip the theology for a moment and read […]
The Builders Nobody Talks About
WE’VE BEEN READING THE SIN AND SKIPPING THE LEDGER Part 1 of 3: Why Genesis is also a business record, and why nobody taught you that For generations, we’ve opened Genesis looking for heroes, villains, miracles, and moral lessons. We found sin, we found betrayal, we found forgiveness. But we kept walking past something hiding […]
