The extent to which people will put up with something which negatively affects them before they will take action is amazing. Working with a financial planner can free up time you may not have. ...
Managing the Earth's resources, why books are about so much more than reading and why you can't help but listen to the Portsmouth Sinfonia. ...
Investors know that, to achieve higher returns than those available by keeping their money in a savings account, they need to be prepared to take some risk. ...
Bubbles, true talent, accepting underperformance, learning to live with maybes and who IS buried on the moon? The best of what I read this week....
A Library of Mistakes, realising the difference between good advice and effective advice, Nobel Prize winners and How to care for your Introvert, these all caught my eye this week....
Black Monday, Northern Rock and earthworms on Mars may be strange bedfellows but all put in an appearance this week. Enjoy!...
There has been a huge amount of interesting content around this week, which has made it very difficult to narrow down to a few snippets. I hope you enjoy my choices. Fat jockeys – or how to make the economy grow [4 min read] If you’ve ever...
Is free will a myth? An interesting look at what influences even the simplest of the many decisions we make each day [3.36 min video] As with most things in life, what worked a couple of generations ago will not necessarily work today. Whilst most of...
There seems to have been a preponderance of articles doing the rounds this week on the ‘topic du jour’ – crypto-currencies. The future of commerce, or another example of ‘tulip mania’? The jury appears to still be out. I must confess to not having given...
This piece is one of the best things I’ve read in the last week – it just goes to show how easy it is for us to be totally unaware of someone else’s struggles [5 min read] I wish I had written this – it tells...