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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Heuristics That Almost Always Work The most dangerous mental shortcuts are the ones that work ALMOST all of the time. Let Your Kids Be Bad at Things Why is it so hard to just let them do their thing, warts and all? My therapist often asks the …
Last week, we introduced the constant competition between two camps of investors: the Active vs. the Passive. And, without taking a stance re: financial outcomes (performance is entirely unpredictable), we made the case that a passive approach might be the better approach. It is the one I choose personally, and recommend often – if for …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web How To Want Less “Satisfaction” is the new code word for true happiness. Why You (Probably) Won’t Finish Reading This Story It’s not that we are collectively going insane, or that we lack willpower. It’s that our attention is being intentionally stolen. It’s part of the business …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Black History Month History.com does a good job with the origins and history of Black History Month as well as the photography and links to more about black history. Reasons to be Cheerful Before we get further into the heavier items, just remember: When the daily slog …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany I wasn’t formally Thich Nhat Hanh’s student, but I spent many hours with his teachings both in grad school and for years beyond. His peaceful heart …
“Difficult to see, always in motion is the future.” -Yoda To my fellow Berkeleyans and other Bay Area residents, the headlines about the decline of American democracy are getting downright scary. I have begun to hear questions about how this might affect the economy and markets. It’s probably a good time to return to our …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Give Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone. It was Maimonedes, with the council of Aristotle, who suggested that private giving was superior. Whether you share your giving or keep it anonymous, a regular practice of giving (your time and money) boosts your happiness and satisfaction …
3.9% The latest employment numbers were worse than expected… but that didn’t stop the aggregate unemployment numbers from falling below 4% for the first time since the beginning the pandemic. And the year just past, we saw almost 6.5 million jobs created – the most jobs ever created in a single year. From the BLS …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Insights from “The Matter with Things” So you think you know a thing or two about the brain hemispheres? Think again. This is a “book review” of an insanely long book I’m about to read. If you’d care to join me and would like to go slow, …
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