Long Term Investment (and your work)
The Measure of a Plan has a great set of graphics on U.S. stock market returns from the 1870s to 2022. In short, even including… Read More »Long Term Investment (and your work)
Processes (ways to get stuff Done)
What does it cost? What is it worth? (2)
The less-obvious side of supply and demand in a nutshell: People pay different prices for (the same) pizza because for all sorts of reasons they… Read More »What does it cost? What is it worth? (2)
What does it cost? What is it worth?
Cost and Worth are the two essential components – value judgements – of every single transaction. This is the law of supply and demand: for… Read More »What does it cost? What is it worth?
Slums, slot-machines and self-un-marginalisation
When a person from a remote village moves to the city and finds themselves living in a slum, they have not become poor and marginalised.… Read More »Slums, slot-machines and self-un-marginalisation
James Holland on strategy, operations and tactics
In warfare there are understood to be three important levels: the strategic, the operational, and the tactical. Strategy refers to the big picture, the overall… Read More »James Holland on strategy, operations and tactics
Layar Tancap (If you build it, they will come)
If you build it… … then they will come. You don’t have to have all that much, and they will come.
The Specialist; or, Dr Snip
Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. Zig Ziglar Returns to specialisation Dangers of specialisation See also: Dr SnipTechnology (22): Francis Bacon on… Read More »The Specialist; or, Dr Snip
Recommendation: Jason Williscroft on how to run an event that doesn’t suck
Williscroft outlines his process for running a good quality (online) event or meetup, giving detailed examples and explaining his reasoning. Sample below. Recommended. I’m a… Read More »Recommendation: Jason Williscroft on how to run an event that doesn’t suck
Recommendation: The Manager Tools Trinity
I’ve found the “Basics” series of podcasts from Manager Tools really helpful. You might too. I’ve got to the end of the episodes on Feedback… Read More »Recommendation: The Manager Tools Trinity
Faith in action; Or, Action, in faith
In the long run, the ultimate effect of any change in the world is impossible to predict. This means that it’s impossible to evaluate whether… Read More »Faith in action; Or, Action, in faith