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The Adventure of a Portfolio Life I’ve been thinking a lot this past year about my portfolio life. I picked up that phrase ‘portfolio life’ from the Jeff Goins book The Art of Work. I think it apply describes what many of us do in our lives. Not that it needs a label, but if …
Gratitude In America this week we have a national holiday called ‘Thanksgiving’. If we for a moment strip off the unfortunate histrionics of the foundation myth it is quite a thing – to have a day where the nation as one formally expresses its thanks. I like to think of it as National Gratitude Day. …
Uncertainty, trust and the universal mastermind Our unrealistic need to stop time and find the truth. Friends. I’m no expert in these affairs. I can only claim to be fairly well read and an experiment of one. In this piece I don’t expect to put forth any answers or even that many opinions. I’ll try …
The power of the external brain Your brain is for thinking not storing. You’re lying in bed at night. You need to sleep but you can’t. A list of things keeps looping through your brain. Maybe it’s the thing you need to do or the engagements that you have coming up. You loop through the …
Fierce Conversations Many good things I’m a book hoarder. I read a lot but I can’t keep up with the rate at which I acquire books. I’ll routinely have 5-10 recommended books sitting in a pile mocking me. It’s like trying to bail the ocean with a teaspoon. There are so many good works of …
