Fri, Jan 18 2019

Technology is a boom-or-bust business, but it's mostly busts. I've always assumed that 10% of my technology investments will succeed—and succeed wildly. The other 90% I expect to fail. When I made the transition from my first career at…

Guess which city is the only one among the nation's biggest to impose term limits on its mayor, but not its city council? That would be the same one in which, in the last election, eight out of 10 District council members ran essentially unopposed…

A few good pieces the Collaborative team came across this week … “Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.” Chris Rock. “The only thing money gives you, is the freedom of not…

Data Picks Investments, Stories Sell Them How investment products are created and sold now is the reverse of two decades ago. Once upon a time, portfolios were constructed via storytelling. Once built, they were marketed via data. That was then.

My end of week morning train reads: • Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change: The veteran money manager will devote $1 billion to helping the world escape catastrophe. (Bloomberg Businessweek) See also MIB: Jeremy…