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What’s your favorite part about springtime?

For us, it’s all about the warmer weather, renewed nature, gardening, outdoor activities, farmers’ markets, and fresh beginnings. Oh, and we’ll take that springtime mood boost, too.

A few fun facts about Spring:

— The first day of spring is called the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. The name vernal comes from Latin and means equal night, fitting since there are 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night on the equinox, which falls on March 19th this year.

— Benjamin Franklin was the first to propose Daylight Savings Time, but it wasn’t implemented until the end of World War 2.

— The first spring flowers to bloom? Typically daffodils, dandelions, lilies, tulips, iris, and lilacs, to name a few.

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— Matthew and Shawn

Quote of the Day

“Nothing so undermines your financial judgment as the sight of your neighbor getting rich.”

— J.P. Morgan

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The Holy Grail of Investing

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Robbins, and renowned investor Christopher Zook, take you on a journey to interview a dozen of the world’s most successful investors in private equity, private credit, private real estate, and venture capital.

They share their favorite strategies and insights in this practical guidebook. 

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Tune In

🎧 Investing guardrails: Avoiding mistakes with Kyle Grieve and Clay Finck

🎥 Inside Nvidia HQ: What the office looks like, where the magic happens

🎥 Michael Saylor: Bitcoin has ‘all the great attributes’ of gold

🎧 Macro outlook Q1 with Luke Gromen and Preston Pysh

What We’re Reading

📖 Books: Mastering the Market Cycle by Howard Marks

📰 Long-form articles: Sir John Templeton on contrarian investing

🗞️ Advice: What it’s like to not have an internal monologue

Trivia

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Final Thoughts

🔢 One Big Number: 75% — the percentage of workers experiencing burnout. About 40% of workers feel more burned out after taking time off, according to Forbes.

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