Mark Dascoli and I have escaped the Chicago winter for a while, enjoying the Australian summer for a bit. With the success of fxphd and fxguide, I’m 100% sold on the practicality of having business partners located at different locations around the world. Changes in technology, communication tools such as Skype and AIM, collaboration sites such as Backpack, and other tools certainly help make it possible.

However, there is still nothing like meeting face to face to get things done. The time we spend strategizing, plotting, and simply brainstorming and tossing out ideas is invaluable to the future of what we do. We always get so much done when we hang out together that it simply makes sense to do this several times of year. In the end, it just helps make fxphd better. And yeah….hanging in the sun in Sydney Harbour on Australia day vs. shivering in freezing rain and snow in Chicago is pretty cool, too.