The wise Yogi Berra once said that, "Baseball is 90% mental; the other half is physical". Aside from a Hall of Fame career, Berra is best known for his entertaining "Yogi-isms". Despite Yogi's questionable math, baseball is indeed mental. Coincidentally, it was...
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...
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...
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...
You cannot watch a baseball game these days without hearing about a batter's launch angle. Launch angle is the measurement of a batted ball's vertical trajectory. Since 2015, hitters have begun optimizing their swings for the ideal launch angle (25-35 degrees). This...
Creating a portfolio without making an investment policy statement means failing to acknowledge that investing is an emotional endeavor. For those of you who don't know what an investment policy statement is, let me begin with a story: In Homer's epic, The Odyssey,...
Risk management is a topic we hear a lot about when it comes to investing. Its popularity tends to ebb and flow based on recent market performance. This seems intuitive to me because when the risk we're trying to manage doesn't occur, risk management often looks like...
What makes the buy and hold strategy so difficult for investors? There are plenty of articles written about this subject. You can read about it here, here and here. To sum it up, not many people can withstand the short-term pain for the long-term benefit. But what if...
How is it that Africa is home to some of the world's largest mammals, while Australia can't claim any larger than the 100-pound kangaroo? As Jared Diamond explains in his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, one explanation is coevolution. Coevolution refers to the...
Discolored surf, choppy water, a break in the wave pattern - these attributes signal one of the most dangerous aspects of visiting the beach: rip currents. The United States Lifesaving Association estimates roughly 100 drownings and over 80% of rescues performed by...
