How to tell if you're working with a psychopath; a fascinating diary on The Great Depression with an investment perspective; what really motivates us to do a job to the best of our ability (clue, it's not money!); and how to cram as much life...
What do ancient money stones on a tiny Pacific island and cryptocurrencies have in common?...
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....
Désolé monsieur, but women tend to live longer than men...
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” – Robert Louis Stevenson An interesting study was published recently, which found that spending money to buy time makes us happier. The study was carried out amongst adults in the...
July was the month for autobiographies. I’m fascinated by other peoples’ lives and how they got to where they are and even after this month’s binge I still have a stack of autobiographies and biographies waiting to be read. Here’s a selection of my best reads...
Up on the blog this week: Keep it simple, build and maintain a legible investment portfolio and avoid ‘coupon clipping’ Is Amazon Prime Day the new Christmas Day? Here’s what sold best around the world. [2 min read] Every great investment decision looks easy when you’re not the one doing it. ...
There’s a lot of talk at the moment about the next stock market crash, and whilst history tells us there will be another one at some point, if you really knew when, why would you waste time telling everyone about it when you could be making your...
How not to raise a spoiled brat. One of the discussions we often have with clients with young children is about the challenge of raising children when you are a first generation wealth creator. As this article illustrates, sometimes parents find it extremely difficult to relate...