Book summary #31 – Your Money: the missing manual
For the book club, a decision was made to ease into the new year (at the time, 2011 was a then-new year) with a book on finances. If for no…
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Book summary #30 – The Corporate Lattice
The Corporate Lattice was chosen as the book club’s thirtieth book, in recognition of the fact that the “corporate ladder” is a poor metaphor for a companies of relatively stable…
Book club summary #29 – Show Me The Numbers
Given the overriding importance of data presentation (read graphing skills) to the effectiveness of the modern “knowledge worker” it was decided that the book club would cover a book on…
Gartman beaten by 82% of funds in 2010; investment SAT score 410
(originally written Jan 17; posted Jan 23 as part of some backfill) Now that the Globe and Mail’s GlobeInvestor site has mutual fund performance data for calendar 2010, I decided…
Book club summary #28 – Understanding A3 Thinking
A long-time proponent of the “A3″ reporting format (which aims to summarize a problem and its solution in a roughly 11″ x17″ sheet of paper) it was a delight to…
Book club summary #27 – Financial Intelligence
Hmm… life’s busy-ness sure didn’t return to normal, there… Anyways, here’s the 27th book we covered in the work business book club: Financial Intelligence. It was chosen because of the…
Well, this one’s an oldie… pomegranate mania
While stuck, iPodless, in a near-interminable supermarket lineup the other week, I swallowed my dignity and perused the celebrity magazines near the cash register. And you know what? They’re actually…
How Libertarians brought America big religion and bigger lawsuits…
(originally written Nov 2; posted Nov 16) It looks like the Democrats are going to get clobbered in next week’s tomorrow’s today’s US elections. Economic malaise tends to do this…
Book club summary #26 – Getting to Yes
Hmm… missed out a few weeks there. Life’s busy-ness has only now returned to normalcy. Getting to Yes was chosen as the book club’s 26th volume because it deals with…
Diminishing returns on increased complexity in financial markets…
My brother forwarded me this article in the Financial Times recently. Superficially about the fall of Rome and other civilizations, as chronicled by Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies, it…