Welcome 2020. A new decade for some. Regardless – every new year presents a possible milestone or waypoint for fresh starts. Waypoints are not just for new year’s or decades. They can be stabbed into our lives – such as our devastating bushfire season. Other...
The 11th March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by the Tohoku earthquake was the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. However, while no deaths are due radiation exposure from the disaster itself, new research suggests that more people suffered and...
Read Good Walk Spoiled? I reckon it’s a great book. It’s about golf, but really a story about characters. Characters under pressure. That’s golf – either a casual hit or a classic test of character. At the highest levels of the game, the classic tests can be...
When do you know you are going out of business – just before you do. Why? Framing Bias. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman explained this years ago. Basically, when options are framed positively, most of us have a natural bias to favour that option. Whereas when options...
Our #2 Daughter, the family’s leading actress, recently flew off to find work hopefully in Netflix’s expanding presence in Vancouver, BC. Going for a couple of years, or longer based upon future stardom, the family wanted to hang around until her final few steps with...
“At the end of the day, average people are going to be the ones; they are going to have to pay for all of this. Because they always, always do” ~ Mark Baum, played by Steve Carell in THE BIG SHORT. We still don’t get it. Did you see or read The Big Short? Great...
