How to be a millionaire without having much money — Sometimes I wake up, sweating, and I feel a dark fear around my heart. What if that money doesn’t come in to pay the next month rent? The anxiety is followed by shame. A distant voice from the past slaps me in the face with the fact that I don’t…

Give each other a break — This is how — There are some pretty uncanny forces at work to separate us. They’re doing a good job. Opening Twitter is like taking the lit from a can of worms. Outrage and blame roam the streets like Robocop with a bad temper. Shooting hate from the hip. A deep divide runs through…

Six tips to live a really connected life — I just moved to an age-old Finca in the green hills somewhere in magic Ibiza. There is no Wifi. I am considering leaving it that way. We’re with a small community of four, and the kitchen has its stove. I see us sitting there in winter, heat from wood burning…

Read this to understand why you are addicted and what you need to stop — I have been gambling on and off for over 25 years. Often I had no clue when I would go visit the Casino. I had my daily job as artistic and business director of my festival. …

Five reasons to quit amazon, support the free word, and make more money — When you love the free word, Amazon is not your God. I learned the hard way and am very grateful for this lesson. I am praying to smaller deities now. Amazon censors books and thus decided what you can and can’t read. I am tired of governments and giant corporate…

Short-term profit doesn’t care about long-term devastating effects — Will we ever learn from history? — Knock Knock, let's put some poison in your car to stop that sound. A little more than seventy-five years ago, General Motors, Du Pont and Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon) got together and put lead, a known poison, into gasoline. For-profit. The staggering result? They diminished the IQ of…

This is what you can do about your screen addiction — Social Media made us more alone and isolated than anything else in our human social history. There’s simply nothing social about it. And it created massive addiction. It left a whole generation more anxious and more depressed. A team of app programmers and psychologists in basements in Silicon Valley managed…

Is the Dutch Government choosing the side of the people again? — Holland has deep historical and economic ties with Russia. The Netherlands inspired Peter the Great to open a window to Europe while he was trained as a shipwright in Amsterdam. In 1816, the Dutch Crown Prince of Orange married Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna, sister of Alexander I. The flat country…