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$12 Billion Later

What would you do if the company you led lost $12 billion in a single quarter? You’d probably make some adjustments. The financial world was …

Elegance Compounds

So you want to be a millionaire. Easy. Just put $X dollars a day into a low-cost index fund. Repeat every day for a few …

What 20,000 Snails & One Trader Joe’s Bag Share

In Ancient Rome, it took roughly 20,000 to 100,000 crushed sea snails to create a single purple toga. The color served no practical purpose. That …

Are you Bowing to An Empty Throne?

Don’t turn your back on the monarch. Ever. If you need to leave the room, shuffle away backward. Don’t sit in the monarch’s presence. Don’t …

How You Say It

Back in the early 1990s, you didn’t read daily comics online. The Internet barely existed for most people, you read them in newspapers. If you …

They Won’t Build You a Statue

In 1871, George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Davis) published “Middlemarch” an 800-page masterpiece about a young woman whose grand plans all fell apart. It’s …

Just the Sprinkles on Top

There’s a sharp little French slang word, “Bobo.” It’s short for “Bourgeoise Boheme” i.e the lifestyle that combines both the sexy “bohemian” bit about art …

In Defense of the Long Way

There’s a phenomenon you’ll see a lot of on Instagram: a talented artist posting a video of herself working on a magnificent piece she’s been …

The Value of Values

Our cultural fabric is unraveling before our very eyes. The question is: what is it that keeps a culture together in the first place? Strong …

“You too?”

Have you ever had that one colleague you just clicked with? You get how they think, they get how you think, you share a common …

The Start Is Always Hardest

In February 1940, five months into World War II, just before he became Prime Minister, Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. Germany had …