What are family offices for?
Reading John Lanchester’s article on finance in a recent London Review of Books https://www.lrb.co.u
Old vs. New Money
The famous American artist James McNeill Whistler sued his fellow painter (and regular critic) John Ruskin…
Biden resigns – fear and loathing on the campaign trail
It was Hunter S Thompson that said ‘A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his c…
AI: who’s doing the dishes?
You may have heard the beautiful quote from fantasy author Joanna Maciejewska: “You know what the biggest p…
Slow Capital – is a more cautious approach necessarily toxic to those in the VC world?
I haven’t used a Windows computer for about 25 years (I only use an iPad nowadays) but, after messing a…
Be the shepherd, not the sheep
It’s not the bandwagon.
Technology Opacity: How to avoid finding out that your tech investment dissolved when you weren’t looking
When a man of my advanced years was younger, successful businesses, with few exceptions, could have been…