Massive Mouse

Sooner or later, something fundamental in your business world will change. We live in an age in which the pace of technological change is pulsating ever faster, causing waves that spread outward toward all industries. This increased rate of change will have an impact on you, no matter what you do for a living. It [...]

I went to a seminar on flow-through shares. Then I went home, did the math, and confirmed what I suspected: although pitched as investments, flow-through shares favor the sellers (resource companies and stock brokers), not the buyers. What are flow-through shares? At first glance, flow-through shares seem like a great way to keep more of [...]

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine [...]

“Time is a variable continuum,” Michael Burry wrote to one of his friends one Sunday morning in 1999: “An afternoon can fly by or it can take 5 hours. Like you probably do, I productively fill the gaps that most people leave as dead time. My drive to be productive probably cost me my first [...]

I have a bad habit. I tweak. Constantly. I suspect that my type-A fascination with improvement is frustrating to my family and co-workers, perhaps nauseating, curious at best. I feel it too. Sometimes I feel like I can’t escape my OCD-esque brain. But I am intrigued by making straight lines straighter. Even a laser beam [...]