This week’s highlights: Inept Dads, 30 Minute Meetings, and Effortless Style
Issue 387
by David Wells – Nashville TN
Happy Friday –
Leave it to Brad Paisley for the feel good moment of the week in his new music video No I in Beer. The number of cameos here is breathtaking. There must be a lot of bored country stars sitting around the house….
Original Content
- 5 Non-Obvious Questions to Drive Family Office Productivity My writing generally focuses on issues relevant to my core family office clients. That said, I think these questions are applicable to anyone in a service business.
Best for your weekend,
David
Food for Thought
- TheConversation – Why Are Sitcom Dads Still So Inept? Dads are taking parenting much more seriously. But according to a new study of sitcoms, the stereotype of the foolish father remains stubbornly in place.
- HBR – Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce Behold the rise of the 30 minute meeting
- GQ – From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success A rare interview with best-selling author Tim Ferriss on his quarantine philosophy, funding psychedelic research, and why “not everything that is meaningful can be measured.”
- TheAtlantic – I Went to Disney World – Credit TP – As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged Florida, the Magic Kingdom welcomed back its most loyal subjects—and me.
- NewYorker – How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire Editor aside – Harvard has to become nervous when professors start building brands that outpace the institution. If content distribution has zero cost (a fact we’ve learned clearly in quarantine), then doesn’t “the on-air talent” become all the more valuable?
Business
- HBR – Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce Behold the rise of the 30 minute meeting
- CNBC – Tax hike on California millionaires would create 54% tax rate – I don’t know about other Nashvillians, but the number of new residents I’m getting introduced to from California is impressive.
- II – Henry Blodget Was Banned From the Financial Industry. So He Built a Financial Media Empire.
- CNBC – Kyle Bass Slams TikTok As ‘CCP Trojan Horse’ Following Disturbing ProtonMail Exposé
- Jeff Davis – Are Bank Stocks Really Cheap? Well done deck on the banking space currently
Culture/Tech/Science:
- Boston Globe – Before he became Bill Belichick’s right-hand man, the mysterious Ernie Adams worked on Wall Street – Credit MB
- Jalopnik – Mercedes Is Killing Its Status Symbols
- NYT – Afraid of Airlines? There’s Always the Private Jet
- MrPorter – A Father And Son’s Guide To Effortless Style (At Any Age)