Magnitude Matters

It is important to understand the game you’re actually playing in all endeavors. In stock picking among other areas of active investment man...

[ Sister post to The Accountants Can't Make You Rich ; consider this the counterpoint to that post. ]  To understand your business, you...

In business cost per unit may be the ultimate metric. Accountants focus on in decreasing the numerator. Marketers focus on increasing the de...

Imagine being an architect for a couple wanting to build a dream house. Their sentiment and emotions would influence what they asked for, bu...

I just stumbled upon something I wrote about 15 years ago--at least that was when it was saved last. I thought I would share it here. Many o...

As a reward to myself for blogging every day in May, I travelled to the place that is at the same time the most and the least American city,...

The more local something is the more essentially socialistic it becomes. I think the best way to describe this is that size/complexity has a...

Years ago I'm sitting in a San Francisco coffee shop with my wife enjoying breakfast. Without trying to or really wanting to we can easi...

A few short thoughts on work. Time On The Clock: While it is commonly discussed that employees today in many occupations get lots of tim...

Advertising-financed, pushed, bundled-content media is quickly dying. For newspapers there are two critical truths: the medium has changed (...