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March 26, 2010
Vancouver, BC

I’m headed to Panama shortly where I look forward to meeting up with my friends and colleagues in the Atlas 400 group. We’re going to an exclusive deep-sea fishing resort for a few days, and afterwards I plan on taking up some unfinished business in Panama.

One of the things on my agenda is to revisit the sustainable community concept that I began discussing a few months ago. This is something that I really want to do, for personal reasons… I’ve always wanted a place that doesn’t rely on ‘the system’ for food, water, power, and security.

In my travels around the world, though, I’ve not yet found a community that provides this, at least up to my own standards… it’s possible that one exists, I just haven’t seen it yet.

I have a detailed plan in mind that will start small and allow the community to grow as the market dictates; my biggest challenge is time. At the moment, I have several other business and investment obligations on my plate, and I’m hesitant to commit to another major undertaking.

As I said, though, for personal reasons I would really like to develop this community, and I’ll be making a final decision once I meet with my team of architects and engineers in Panama over the next 2-weeks. Stay tuned.

On to this week’s questions:

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March 24, 2010
Hong Kong, SAR

One of the worst things that can happen to a country is to experience a brain-drain.  The loss of productive people who create new technologies and companies means the loss of the jobs and wealth that they create.

The long-term aggregate effects of this can be truly devastating, and history provides no shortage of examples.

By nature, though, people are generally creatures of habit– inert beings. They must be acted upon by a tremendous force to uproot them and get them moving… but everyone has a breaking point.

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