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....
World stockmarkets have had a good run in recent years. If you haven't thought about rebalancing your portfolio, now might be a good time to think about doing so....
Black Monday, Northern Rock and earthworms on Mars may be strange bedfellows but all put in an appearance this week. Enjoy!...
Stephen King and 'the glass teat', Angela Duckworth's Grit, a fine first novel on autism and a bonkers billionaire - all in the books I read last month....
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...
Désolé monsieur, but women tend to live longer than men...
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...
“No passive investor cares much about governance of a particular company.” Todd Henderson and Dorothy Shapiro Lund, Wall Street Journal, 22nd June 2017 The above quotation comes from an article published in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), access to which is only available to subscribers, although...
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...
