There are two sides to every story. Or, when it comes to the 1950 film, Rashomon, four sides. After its surprise Golden Lion victory at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, Rashomon took the world by storm. The small Japanese film was created by the now-revered director and...
I’ve been attempting to teach myself how to play the guitar for about two years now. Between YouTube videos, online classes, and e-books, I’ve gotten to be OKAY. A few months ago, however, I felt I hit a wall with my progress. It was frustrating. Having essentially...
Prepare for a hot take: the earth is a sphere. Now that I've lost all the flat-earthers, let me continue. Since the earth is a sphere, we cannot perfectly map its surface. Despite this, we've persisted in translating our three-dimensional world onto a variety of...
To become a successful long-term investor, you have to be like a 4-year old. Let me explain. In 2016, Swiss-born philosopher and author Alain de Botton wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person”. Naturally this title...
The Major League Baseball regular season ended last weekend, and the New York Mets finished in a disappointing fourth place in the National League East division with 77 wins. It was clear from the early stages of this season that the Mets were simply not a...
People will nod their head in agreement when advisors say things like "Politicians do not control the markets." But people still believe it! So I'm going to tap lightly on a "third rail" of topics we should probably steer clear from - politics! Over my career,...
We had an interesting conversation recently with a "friend of the firm." Kathleen is not a client, but rather a peer - she charts, just like we do. She told us how she made lots of transactions from quarter to quarter and even month to month, picking up 10% here, 15%...
According to the definition found at Neuropsychotherapist.com, the prefrontal cortex "...region of the brain has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision making... " Maybe a part of our brain stops us from becoming...
In the movie A Quiet Place, the story follows the Abbott family. The Abbotts live in a post-apocalyptic world that has been decimated by extraterrestrial creatures who hunt by sound. As we quickly learn in the first few minutes of the film, the family's survival is...
"Melinda Gates' children don't have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen. Her husband Bill spends hours in his office reading books while everyone else is refreshing their homepage. The most sought-after school in Silicon Valley (the Waldorf School of...
