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“Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.” — Matthew 13:12
Early in my career, before I knew it had been popularised as The Matthew Effect, I noticed this phenomenon. I captured it in an article as “it’s much easier to get ‘another success’ once you get the first one.”
Continue reading“I have done it before” is such a powerful anchor.Continue reading
You will not always have to do “it”, and when you are not doing “it”, it can be unnerving to think about not doing “it” in that moment. However, your ability to say, “Well, in the past, when I wanted to, I did it,” can be a strong anchor to help you escape that feeling. It is often also sufficient to get you through having to do “it” again.
If you’ve been waiting for an update on my most important business and economic news of December, it is finally here. The holidays delayed its publication until now.
Continue readingGetting introduced to stock market investing during my undergraduate days was synonymous with getting introduced to Warren Buffett. There was a fanfare about even knowing him in my circle of friends: “You don’t know the Oracle of Omaha?” one would query, rhetorically, in such situations.
Over the years, I’ve read a few of his annual shareholder letters, two books that touch on different topics about him, and countless articles, videos, and audios.
Continue readingWhen it comes to setting goals for the year, my approach has two parts.
1. The engine that powers all. These are habits and actions that I hold consistent from year to year. They are goals that don’t change (or slowly change), irrespective of what time of the year it is.
An example habit is my waking-up time (between 5:30am and 6am). An example action is my writing (I carry it year over year no matter what). Hold this thought for now.
Metadata is the stuff of life, the art that makes life even more interesting. I think in language, you could refer to them as contextual data.
You went to a restaurant to eat. The meal was delicious and you enjoyed it. To retell the experience to yourself, you could say, “Oh, the meal was delicious and I enjoyed it.” And that would be true. But only as true as saying David bought a book from this store… and nothing more.
Continue readingAs the curtain closes on November, I have my candidate for the most important piece of economic and business news from the UK for you (if you missed previous months, see comment for links)
It’s about energy in the UK. First, let’s do some reality checks
Continue readingThe millionaire threshold of wealth is often used to measure some sort of arrival, especially when based on hard currencies like the pound or usd or euro. So, it is often actively tracked. In the UK, there are approximately 3.1 million millionaires (1).
Continue readingWhen you think about the UK and take time to analyse all the news published about its business and economy, you could easily become depressed by the state of things. Government barely scraping by, businesses struggling to survive, consumers losing wealth — it’s often hard to find news that lifts you up. Well, that was the case until what I’m about to share.
Continue readingFor me, the most important business story of September out of the UK was the news of Kraken being spun out of Octopus Energy to become an independent company — valued at $10 billion.
In an earlier post I made on Twitter, I expressed how impressed I am with the success of the company. It’s a peerless story and one that makes for a great study: how a radical focus on customer satisfaction, enabled by technological innovation, can create tremendous shareholder value — even in a sector as old as energy.
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