The Stories We Tell
December 26, 2021We are wired for story. Stories can be conveyed in a cave painting, from the pulpit, a book or a podcast. Story is the way we share meaning and truth. Today’s post is about key lessons that emerged from Season #3 of the Things I Didn’t Learn in School podcast.
Inside a Georgian Kitchen (Take #2)
November 24, 2021Oops! I earlier sent out a draft note without a live link and chart. Apologies. (Thus take #2).
Jim Comey – Watching the Train Leave the Station
November 10, 2021On my best days, I look at others with curiosity. I like to try to imagine their motivations, even if that person does things differently than I would. At the end of day, we each render a judgement, but I try to go there only after imagining what the other person’s shoes feel like. Nothing new in that wisdom, but a struggle to consistently apply.
Boom, Bust and Redemption
October 27, 2021A few weeks ago, I wrote about The Art of Not Destroying Wealth. Wealth is unstable, hard to accrue and easy to lose. The latest podcast is a case study in both the art of gaining it, a case study in how to lose it and, perhaps more importantly, a discussion of how to keep perspective as the world’s perception of you gyrates.
Happy Sunday
October 24, 2021In response to a subscriber question, today’s post is a paid-only edition I wrote about the challenge investors face with inflation. These paid posts finance Still Press and I encourage you to subscribe. For those of you that already subscribe, a very heartfelt thank you.
Happy Sunday
October 24, 2021Today I mailed out a “subscriber-only” letter where I shared my asset allocation. This piece was the final part of a four-part series I called “The Lull.” If you’d like to read it, please become a paid subscriber.
Ray Dalio, Unplugged
October 13, 2021It’s hard enough to know ourselves, let alone others. We are contradictions, moods and degrees of disclosure and so are those we try to understand. Observer and observed are in motion. Those familiar to us also remain elusive.
Volunteerism In The Time of Covid
September 29, 2021Alexander Vanyukov is a heart surgeon in Moscow, husband and father of two. Like all of us, Covid turned his life upside down. Only, he wasn’t hiding out in a country house making as needed dashes for groceries. He was at ground zero in a hazmat suit and goggles trying to prevent some of Russia’s 200,000 reported Covid deaths. Excess mortality suggests the actual figure is closer to 600,000.
Religion in the Modern World
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Speeches That Resonate, Forever
September 1, 2021If someone forwarded this to you, you can subscribe here.