03 Jan Thoughts For The Year Ahead
I toyed with the idea of writing a post setting out my own reflections on lessons learned in 2018 and resolutions for the new year but stopped short of doing so....
10 Sep A Matter of Choice
As Simon Sinek states in ‘Start with Why’, “A company is a culture. A group of people brought together around a common set of values and beliefs.”...
17 Jul The Nurse Bryan Rule
A reporter asked the legendary cellist Pablo Casals on his 95th birthday “Mr Casals, you’re 95 and the greatest cellist who ever lived. Why do you still practice six hours a day?” Casals answered, “Because I think I’m making progress.”...
11 May The weekend starts here....
Buffett; humility and our ability to learn; hungry mice; turning desert sand into farmland; the cost of bad advice; the benefits of doing nothing; it's ok to sin a little; humility (again); how the mighty are fallen; GDPR, and Buffett (again). The best of what...
20 Apr The weekend starts here
Mount Stupid; the what-ifs; things that are true; people are not wooden blocks; the illusion of stock-picking skill; keeping an open mind; why don't we notice errors; the unstoppable rise of Amazon and how to make good decisions. The best of what I read this...
02 Mar The weekend starts here.....
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Overlooking the obvious; Good Dogs; taking the time to think; how planners add value; the rich really are different. The best of what caught my eye this week....
12 Jan The weekend starts here.....
The implications of a cashless society; predictions you really can rely on; the danger of seeing patterns in data, and Warren Buffett's breakfast routine. Some of the interesting snippets which caught my eye this week....
28 Dec Possibly the best Twitter community in the world???
Writing not just about finance, but about a whole range of issues which affect, and should be important to, us all. Reading their work has taught me so much, and I hope in the months and years ahead that continuing to do so will help...
17 Nov The Weekend Starts Here - interesting snippets from around the web
The Dead Man Fund, keeping an open mind, avoiding overconfidence, optical illusions and Google's truth serum. Some of what caught my eye this week...
28 Jul The weekend starts here…28/07/2017
In this week’s blog we discuss how one-third of investors indicate their biggest financial fear is significant loss in a market downturn and why working with a planner can help alleviate these fears. Kicking off this week with the perennial dilemma that first generation wealth can cause when discussing that...
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