Fifteen on Friday

A wide-ranging weekly curation helping you to understand and live thoughtfully in a changing world, David’s newsletter, Fifteen on Friday, has been published for over 10 years.

Most Recent Edition

09/01/2023 – Issue 506

This week: Bill Waterson, Marketing, and The Preppy Handbook (again)

Other Recent Editions:

The Week’s Best Reads – 09/01/17

This week's highlights: chronic pain, day trading, and the 'fleece of the century.' Fifteen on Friday - 09/01/17 - Issue 251 A quick word of welcome to a number of new subscribers, and thanks to the folks who forwarded along last week's email.  In case you are new to...

The Week’s Best Reads – 08/25/17 Edition

This week's highlights: french fries, the problem with low interest rates, and billion dollar basketball. Fifteen on Friday - 08/25/17 - Issue 250 In April of 2012, I sent a list of 8 articles to 22 friends, family and colleagues with a quick note saying that I was...

The Week’s Best Articles – 08/18/17

This week’s highlights: Singing Technique, The Fall of Sears, and a 50-year old watch still in production. Issue 249 Food for Thought: The Atlantic – The Road to Radicalism in Charlottesville.  Violent extremism—whether in jihadist or white supremacist form—is often...

The Week’s Best Articles – 08/11/17

This week's highlights: Cheaper healthcare, Brands strike back, and the importance of body language. Fifteen on Friday - 08/11/17 - Issue 248 Food for Thought: NYT - On Health Care, Who Needs Congress?  Regardless of whether Congress enacts health care reform, the...

The Week’s Best Articles – 08/04/17

This week's highlights: Smartphones, Palantir, and 100-year old Pyrex. Fifteen on Friday - 08/04/17 - Issue 247 One of life's true joys in my opinion is when someone who is an expert at a particular field explains to you what is actually going on in something that you...

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