David’s Articles

This week's highlights:  Humanities vs. Technology, Active Management, and the Physics of Pizza Fifteen on Friday - 08/10/18 - Issue 296 Food for Thought: NYT - Oh, the Humanities! New data on college majors confirms an old trend. Technocracy is crushing the life out...

This week's highlights:  Mr. Rogers, Lance Armstrong and the Death of Value Fifteen on Friday - 08/03/18 - Issue 295 Happy Friday Everyone, A few more podcast episodes interspersed this week - but enjoyed listening to a few gems this week and wanted to share.  Enjoy...

This week's highlights:  Criminal Actors, Private Equity's Bubble, and What to think about Goop? Fifteen on Friday - 07/27/18 - Issue 294 Happy Friday Everyone, We are back after some late summer R&R, and starting to get ready for an 8/6 start to school here in...

This week's highlights:  The Extinction of Middle Children, Excess Firefighters, and Flying Spiders Fifteen on Friday - 07/13/18 - Issue 293 Food for Thought: TheCut - The Extinction of the Middle Child.  They’re becoming an American rarity, just when America could...

The highlights:  The Enduring Appeal of Cruises, 10 Years After the Financial Crisis, and the Price of Pets Fifteen on Friday - 07/06/18 - Issue 292 Food for Thought: NYT - Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool  Hating on cruises is a favorite of travel writers...here...

This week's highlights:  The Positive Death Movement, McKinsey and South Africa, and The Difficulty of Being Average in Formula 1 Racing. Fifteen on Friday - 06/29/18 - Issue 291 Food for Thought: NYT - The Positive Death Movement Comes to Life.  Death cafes, death...

This week's highlights:  The Death of NYC?, How CEOs actually spend their time, and a fix for climate change. Fifteen on Friday - 06/22/18 - Issue 290   Food for Thought: Harpers - The Death of a Once Great City - Credit WES - The fall of New York and the urban...

This week's highlights:  Too Much Travel, The Asymptotes of Growth, How Mr. Rogers Connected with Children Fifteen on Friday - 06/15/18 - Issue 289 Happy Father's Day! All the best, David Food for Thought: Arre - Footloose & Deluded: How the Millennial Obsession...

Fifteen on Friday - 06/08/18 - Issue 288 It is with a certain heaviness of heart that Fifteen on Friday comes out today.  On Tuesday, much beloved designer, Kate Spade, committed suicide at the young age of 55.  Her eponymous bags are now so universal now that they...

This week's highlights:  Football Corruption, More Bird Scooters, and The Diamond Market.     Fifteen on Friday - 06/01/18 - Issue 287 Do we dare pick on college football? It is safe to say that baseball, once the nation's darling national pastime, has been been...