Competitive and Driven are not Synonyms

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...

The Week’s Best Articles – 03/17/17

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...

The Week’s Top Articles – 03/10/17 Edition

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...

How to Think About Investing

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...

For 2017 — You Must Think Meta To Be Successful

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...