Weekly insights from the Driven Life team.
Dean Scarlett · October 22, 2026
The Ship With Too Few Lifeboats In 1912, the White Star Line sent the Titanic to sea with lifeboats for barely half the people on board. The math followed outdated shipping regulat…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · October 14, 2026
The House Buffett Never Upgraded Warren Buffett is one of the richest people on Earth. He still lives in the Omaha house he bought in 1958 for $31,500. Same house. Same neighborhoo…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · October 7, 2026
Build a Business That Runs Without You In 2007, Tim Ferriss published The 4 Hour Workweek and sold millions of people on the idea that income and time could finally be separated. P…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · September 30, 2026
Nobody Robs the Casino Alone In Ocean’s Eleven, Danny Ocean walks out of prison with a plan and no illusions. He knows he cannot rob three casinos by himself. So, he builds a crew.…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · September 23, 2026
The Footnote That Became Your Retirement Plan In 1978, Congress slipped a short provision into a tax bill. Almost nobody noticed. Two years later a benefits consultant named Ted Be…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · September 16, 2026
What Survived 2008 When the housing market collapsed in 2008, one corner of commercial real estate barely flinched. Self storage. The broader REIT index fell close to forty percent…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · September 9, 2026
Why the Pros Skip the Duplex Sam Zell, the billionaire known as the “Grave Dancer,” built one of the largest real estate fortunes in American history. He did not do it one rental h…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · September 2, 2026
What the Camel Knows That Investors Forget A camel can cross a desert for two weeks without a sip of water, running on fat reserves stored in its hump. It survives the stretch betw…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · August 26, 2026
If you haven't already, join the Driven Life Community App, click the link below. Join Now >>> Driven Life Community Force the Building to Pay You Sam Zell built one of th…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · August 19, 2026
Passive Income, For Real The IRS crunched the numbers on America’s millionaires years ago and found something interesting. The average one had seven separate income streams running…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · August 12, 2026
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The old parlor game claims any actor in Hollywood connects to Bacon in six steps or fewer. Turns out the same math runs the commercial real estate world…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · August 5, 2026
Simple Transactions Can Lead to Empires Every empire starts as a single transaction. In 1945, Sam Walton borrowed twenty thousand dollars and bought one run down variety store in N…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · July 29, 2026
Know the Rules. Win the Game Imagine two investors. Same city. Same year. Same amount to put down. Investor A buys a small strip center in a steady working class neighborhood. Soli…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · July 22, 2026
Don’t Pay Taxes Warren Buffett once told Congress he paid a lower tax rate than his receptionist. He was explaining something most people never figure out: the tax code is not desi…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · July 8, 2026
Don’t Get Left Behind Ray Kroc, owner of McDonald’s, once said: “I’m not in the hamburger business. My business is real estate.” McDonald’s doesn’t make its money flipping burgers.…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · July 1, 2026
Deathbed Regrets Bronnie Ware spent years as a palliative care nurse, sitting with people in the last weeks of their lives. She wrote down what they regretted most in her book "The…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · June 24, 2026
You Aren’t Alone Michael Jordan won zero championships before Phil Jackson became his coach. And then went on to win six after. Jordan didn’t get better at basketball because of Ph…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · June 17, 2026
Fear IS the Signal Your body can't tell the difference between fear and excitement. Same racing heart. Same tight chest. The only difference is the story you tell yourself about wh…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · June 10, 2026
One Deal Changes Everything Einstein reportedly called compound interest the eighth wonder of the world. “He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.” That is exactly…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · June 4, 2026
Don’t Wait In 2010, the median home price in the United States was $221,000. Today it's over $400,000. The uncomfortable truth is the cost of waiting is not zero. Every year you si…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · May 27, 2026
What Most Millionaires Have in Common “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate…The wise wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.” Andr…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · May 13, 2026
Become Layoff Proof In the first four months of 2026, nearly 120,000 tech workers lost their jobs. Oracle cut 30,000 in a single morning. Intel eliminated 24,000 — 20% of its entir…
Read more →Dean Scarlett · May 6, 2026
I Was Laid Off Yesterday Yesterday, Coinbase let me go. 700 of us. 14% of the company, gone before breakfast. I’m not going to pretend that it didn't sting. But here’s what I also …
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