Go to the corners

Go to the corners

I was walking Frankie in a rectangular field the other day, where many others walk. A clear path has formed what I noticed is that it does not go into the corners – all the corners are cut. Cutting corners comes easily to us, but it’s not always to our benefit, for...
Time For Change?

Time For Change?

Does our voting system work? Are the right people governing us? Or are they simply as collection of unemployable chancers? Has it always been so? Are these outcomes acceptable in any way at all? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/youth-unemployment-in-oecd-and-china/ or...
Boring

Boring

It is peculiar the lengths we go to get in the way of ourselves. The thoughts we have about what we can and can’t do, will or won’t like, backed up by the scantiest of evidence. Take getting better at something. It needs practice, but the thought of practice for many...
The Big Wheel

The Big Wheel

As Massive Attack advised us in 1991 with the “Hymn Of The Big Wheel”, the big wheel keeps on turning. After two years of investment malaise from December 2021 until November 2023 equity markets have picked up considerably and returned something like 15% these last...