My mother had two strokes leaving her unable to walk. She hates not being able to walk. A few years later her eyes glazed over with cataracts and she couldn’t see. Since she lives with us, and we see her everyday, we didn’t notice it as it happened slowly over…
The church at Colossae was formed during Paul’s ministry in Ephesus. A Colossian named Epaphras traveled to Ephesus (125 miles NW of Colossae) and heard Paul preach the gospel. In returning home Epaphras shared the message with his hometown and the church at Colossae was born. “Epaphras had earlier journeyed…
Words are how the truth comes to us. They’re also how it can be taken away. Seen only as symbols and grammar, truth and lies are made from the same raw material. Your only hope is discernment. Your life depends on it. Tolkien and Lewis regarded the fairy tale as…
Your Optimal Life Equation (YOLE) is an algebraic formula to describe, contemplate, and re-calibrate the optimality of one’s life. The relationships of the major elements are shown as well as the potential impacts a change may have. The equation is introduced, here, and referred to throughout the “The Outliers Handbook”. When I got…
As promised by investor Lt. Col. Thomas Baker, the forensic reconstruction of Galt’s Gulch Chile has been completed and was hand-delivered to the FBI and the IRS on June 8th, 2015. Informed by the reconstruction, investor David McLeod filed criminal charges against Kenneth Johnson and Pamela Del Real in Chile…
NOTE: Version 1 of this book is ready as of June 11th, 2015. I’ve put all the articles of the McGillespie.com GGC series into book format and am supplementing it with the latest developments and documents from the recovery efforts. In addition to all the articles of the series the book…
The Jetsetter Show with Jason Hartman Jason Hartman and Terence Gillespie discuss Galt’s Gulch Chile and many ways to optimize the path for expatriates in Chile and Colombia. Jason has a wonderful transcription posted just below the link for the podcast: JS 101: What Happened with Galt’s Gulch, Chile? Borderless…
Part 1: What Happened and When? Part 2: Root Cause of Problems? Part 3: How Might Problems be Avoided in the Future? Part 4: What’s the Deal with Berwick and GGC? Part 5: Feedback from the Recovery Team Part 6: Johnson Re-Occupies Galt’s Gulch E-mail Sent to Jerry Folta…
The world discards ideas and people that present multiple standard deviations away from “normal”. And yet, Reality has always been phenomenal and noumenal. To ensure you’re able to thrive in the artificial chaos of this generation you’ll need to be an outlier, in many ways. Here’s “The Outlier’s Handbook” to…
I’ve spent the last two days responding on the comment section of an article written by Rebeca Morla at the Panama Post. Though I find the article represents mostly Johnson’s point of view I sympathize with any journalist under deadline having to come up to speed on the Galt’s Gulch…
Part 1: What Happened and When? — GGC Story, Timeline & References. Part 2: Root Cause of Problems? — The Creature from Galt’s Gulch. Part 3: How Might Problems be Avoided in the Future? — Contracts are Good for Libertarians, Too. Part 4: What’s the Deal with Berwick and GGC? — Jeff Berwick & GGC: A Regrettable…
Rent and K.I.S.S. All the land development talk in my Galt’s Gulch Chile series seems pretentious. Then again, merely telling the average person you’re flying to Chile has a good chance of causing eyes to glaze over as if one is doing something exotic. Flying to Chile is not exotic;…
This is part four of a series offering constructive criticism of the Galt’s Gulch Chile land development deal. To come up to speed on the story, see part one: GGC Story, Timeline & References. For the root cause of the current problems, see part two, “The Creature from Galt’s Gulch”.…