In 2013, a young entrepreneur named Jamie Siminoff went on the TV show “Shark Tank” to pitch his startup.

Jamie’s company was creating a Wi-Fi-enabled video doorbell, so you could see a live video feed of what’s happening at your front door at any time. He called it DoorBot.

Today,…

I read something in the news yesterday that blew my mind.

A sweater just sold for $1.1 million.

It’s a wool sweater, the kind you’d wear to a tailgate party, or to go apple picking, or to get a laugh at your company’s “ugly” Christmas sweater party.

More than a…

OpenAI has taken the world by storm — and investors want in.

OpenAI is the Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) company behind ChatGPT, the technology that can generate human-like text.

ChatGPT can write essays or computer code for you, engage in philosophical conversations, or help you with shopping, a health issue, or even…

Have you seen the new app, Friend.tech?

Essentially, it’s a social network where you can buy shares in people — from NBA players and OnlyFans creators, to ordinary folks like your friends.

Once you own shares in someone, you can engage with them directly.

But what’s more interesting is this: if…

Last Friday, before I took off for the weekend, my friend Aitio dropped by the office.

He stops by a few times a year just to say hello.

He wasn’t exactly in our neighborhood, which is in downtown Manhattan on the water. But with his 2023 Tesla Model S Plaid…

Labor Day is coming up — and it’s going to be expensive.

For the last ten years or so, my family has spent Labor Day weekend in the mountains of northwest Connecticut.

Every year, we grill New York Strip Steaks that we buy from a local farm. For years, we…

I live in downtown New York City, right next to the Hudson River.

About ten years ago, Superstorm Sandy landed here and caused $19 billion in damage. Many of my neighbors were forced to move uptown or out of town to escape the flooding.

The thing is, this wasn’t an…

My daughter just had her 2nd birthday, so I have time before she starts dating.

But I read something last week that got me thinking…

Paul Newman had a daughter named Nell. And Nell had a boyfriend. 

One day, Newman decided to give Nell’s boyfriend a present. But the present…

If you needed a new foot, where would you get one?

This question came up yesterday in conversation with my four-year-old son.

I’d gotten a spider bite on my foot. Rather than waiting for it to heal — which was preventing us from going swimming — he suggested I get…

What you’re about to read is a crazy story. And it’s 100% true. Here we go.

In 1989, a man was browsing through a flea market in Pennsylvania.

After coming across an old, torn painting, he decided to buy it for $4 so he could use the frame it came…