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An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timeless reflection on presence over productivity— a timely antidote to the central anxiety of our productivity-obsessed age. Indeed, my own New Year’s resolution has been to stop measuring my days by degree of productivity and start experiencing…
January
Now that the dust has settled on January I thought it was time for a little dodgy table and chart looking at the relative performance of a few markets. As you can see the trouble maker continues to be China, which should not be a surprise to anyone. What is surprising is the relatively good…
Touring Can’t Save Musicians in the Age of Spotify
Every couple of months, I see another post in my Facebook feed about a band that was cut off by an 18-wheeler or skidded on a patch of black ice and rolled their van into a ditch. Some members are injured, and they’re launching a Kickstarter campaign to pay for medical bills and to get…
Time Management
LB and Michael Yardney have just recorded a podcast on time management which you can download by clicking the player below. We all feel as though we don’t have enough time, so download the replay of this Podcast and you’ll discover Everything you need to know in 40 minutes about the most effective time management strategies…
When You Just Cant Commit
My gym is currently running a 9 week fitness program for those who just cannot commit to 12 weeks. I am not entirely certain what their expectations might be for the changes that might occur during those 9 weeks. And people wonder why they dont get anywhere in life.
Habits
Following on from my piece on success last week I noticed that New Scientist had a longer form piece on habits, how you break the bad ones and make the good ones. I have mentioned before that I think everyone should subscribe to this magazine for the very simple reason that the best pieces of…
The Rise Of Behavioural Economics
The Rise of Behavioural Economics from Trading Game Pty Ltd
How Voltaire Made A Fortune Rigging The Lottery
One Le Pelletier-Desforts, Deputy Finance Minister for France, had a “brilliant” idea as to how to raise the value of existing bonds, encourage the sale of new bonds, and earn some money for the government- a trifecta. His idea was to allow bond owners to buy a lottery ticket linked to the value of their…
The Periodic Table Of Commodity Returns
You can spend hours on this site. More here – Visual Capitalist
The Things You Think Of
Whilst having one of my regular floats this morning I was pondering the surprise of people that prices after an extended run have a period of contraction, to me this has always been the natural order of things. I understand that various aspects of optimism and recency bias afflict people but it still intrigues me that…
Playing the Boys Game: Golf Buddies and Board Diversity
Piss poor reason for selecting people to serve on boards. Not entirely surprising when you consider the closed ecology of board memberships domestically Golf buddies aer_may_2016 2 from Trading Game Pty Ltd
