This is going to be one of those rants that will quite possibly cause many people to be rather irate with me. Luckily I don’t care because it’s a point that should be made. Living in south Florida and traveling the world in my spare time I come across an eclectic set of people from all sorts of diverse backgrounds.

Recently some rather interesting set of events transpired which led me to this article.

If you are ever with a significant other and he/she gets rather angry one day because a work emergency comes up and it needs to be attended to than take the following paragraph into consideration.

In life you need a balance between work and social time. I am very fortunate to have the benefit of more leisure time than almost all of my peers. However, if something that is going to make a big difference on your bottom line comes up and taking care of the matter will have a substantial impact on your future life and more importantly your childrens life than a significant other who gets mad at the situation is no good because they are saying I care more about myself, my life, and me than I do about our future and the kids that may blossom into your life one day.

In part of my experiments that I like to run on Google it’s intriguing to find an opportunity to create a resume for myself that is not created for an immediate response or job offer but rather as proof to the skills that I have developed over the years. In this case and scenario I am taking my main website: RichartRuddie.com and the words “Connected Entrepreneur” and creating a resume that will hopefully impress the Matt Cutts of the world.

As my good friend Marc put it “thats a great fucking website, you are making the point that you are the connected one and you don’t need to be out in a suit & tie trying to impress people because you have the innate ability.”

So here is to experiments and results!

Everyday I am learning something new and expanding my businesses. There are still quite a few people that I admire that I would love to get their overall insight and advice on life from.

Here are my picks for people I would like to meet over the next year:

1. Mark Cuban – Shares the same favorite Ayn Rand novel as I do and now that I am on a successful tech run this would be one of the best people to get advice from.
2. Stephie Cohen – SAC prefers his privacy, is brilliant, and is one of the most successful traders of all time
3. Barry Ritholtz – Fusion IQ and Brilliant Economist who must not sleep often because he writes a ton of columns daily
4. Ken Griffin – Citadel wiz kid who was brave enough to leave his window cracked in the freezing winters in Cambridge so he could trade.
5. Mario Armstrong – Impressive tech consultant who is also from Baltimore, Maryland.
6. Brade Callen – Internet Marketing mastermind
7. Edward Thorpe – Forget Winslow this is the statistical genius that really understood the true definition of Hedge Fund.
8. Donny Deutsche – Used to have the Show the Big Idea on CNBC. A true marketing genius and a genuinely good guy.
9. Robert Herjavec – If you watch the Shark Tank than you understand that this is a truly genuine and smart businessman.
10. David Einhorn – If you ever read this David I challenge you to a heads up poker match
11. James Simon – Talk about the future of the markets and the world would be appealing