Saint Paisios, also known as Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, died in 1994 and was canonized (recognized as a saint) in 2015. That makes him not only one of the most recent figures to be granted sainthood by the Orthodox Christian Church, but also one of the fastest to receive sainthood after death. So, what […]
With over 1,100 career wins, Mike Krzyzewski – or Coach K, for short – is the winningest coach in college basketball history. In fact, no other men’s coach has even cracked 1,000. Most of those wins came with Duke, where Coach K has been the head coach since 1980. In that time, he’s also led […]
At age 13, Magnus Carlsen became the youngest ever chess Grandmaster. By the time he was 19, he was also the youngest player to be ranked #1 in the world. A few years later, he won his first world championship, and in 2014, he obtained the FIDE rank of 2882. Why is that ranking significant? […]
Gary Vaynerchuk – or Gary Vee, as the kids call him – is one of the most recognizable faces on social media. He’s got millions of followers on Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, you name it, where he cranks out posts, videos, and articles on a daily basis. He’s parlayed this social media expertise into a digital […]
Even for those remotely associated with the financial world, the name Ray Dalio is a familiar one. He’s the Founder of Bridgewater Associates – the world’s largest hedge fund with $160bn in assets under management. Dalio launched Bridgewater from his apartment in New York in 1975, and over the course of the last four decades he has […]
Steve Jobs is arguably the most impactful individual (so far) on the way that we interact with technology in our daily lives. He co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and began what is widely known as the microcomputer revolution with the launch of the Apple I. Apple is now one of the largest companies […]
