Mar 20, 2017 | Reflections
Many synonymous words we take for granted, never bothering to contemplate whether or not they are in fact, equivalent. In the last several weeks, I have been struck that there is in fact a difference between being ‘competitive’ and being ‘driven.’ For a long period of...
Mar 17, 2017 | Fifteen on Friday
This week’s highlights: Deadly Cobras, The Forgotten Art of Spying, and Paris Hilton – Business Mogul. Food for Thought: NYMag – Is Intersectionality a Religion? Here’s the latest in the assault on liberal democracy. Pair with this great piece on...
Mar 10, 2017 | Fifteen on Friday
This week’s highlights: The Death of Blackberry, Adulting School, and the Challenge of Staying Rich. Food for Thought: QZ – “Adulting school” can’t short-cut the hard, self-taught work of growing up BI – A $2.5 trillion asset manager just put a statue of a...
Feb 28, 2017 | Family Wealth
In order to explain how we think about investing, as well as to help our clients better understand their own investments, we are beginning a series of short posts about how best to think about investing. This is of great importance, as the data is quite conclusive...
Dec 30, 2016 | Reflections
I can clearly recall the first ‘meta’ thought I encountered. I was sitting in the first day of high school in my first English class, and the professor began with the year with the question of What is a Word? Mind blown. Why? Up to that point, I had been so head down...