Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

Discover how writing was invented for business, accounting, and trade in ancient Mesopotamia—and why it became one of history’s greatest entrepreneurial innovations.

Discover how the Agricultural Revolution created surplus, specialization, and trade—laying the foundation for entrepreneurship and modern civilization.

The week began with optimism but ended with investors confronting three powerful realities: higher oil prices, rising geopolitical risk, and the staggering cost of the AI revolution. By Friday’s close, all three major U.S. indexes finished lower: While new tariffs from the Trump administration made headlines, they were overshadowed by…

Discover the history of middlemen, why they create value, why the internet didn’t eliminate them, and how AI will transform their future.

📊 Alain’s Holdings — July 24, 2026 Symbol Name Price Change Change % VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 679.14 +0.53 +0.08% QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust 684.23 -7.73 -1.12% XIU.TO iShares S&P/TSX 60 ETF 52.74 +0.31 +0.59% Wall Street ended the week under pressure as investors continued digesting Big Tech earnings,…

Chapter 1 “Entrepreneurship began long before there were companies, currencies, governments, or even writing. It began the moment one human being discovered they could create value for another.” A Trade That Changed the World Ten thousand years ago, somewhere in the Fertile Crescent, two strangers met at the edge of…