Month: September 2015

Letters From a Hedge Fund Manager – Part I

Humans are hardwired to take things to extremes. Take junk food, for example; here is something that could be a nice treat every once in a while, and we go and scoff so much of it that we’ve turned diabetes into a national sport. And then we have shampoo. I

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Getting Paid for Doing the Obvious?

I’ve spent a good few hours running. Up hills, down hills, along flats… just running. A not so startling realization is that running uphill burns more calories, is more taxing on your body, makes you breathe harder, and will make you tired faster than running on a flat or downhill.

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The Power of Distribution Manifested by Coca Cola

My kids are mowing lawns and washing cars in their spare time on weekends. The sort of jobs a 9 and 10-year old can get without doing too much damage. I think it’s a vastly better use of their time than sitting indoors, gaping at an Xbox, playing the latest

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Mede-Jean, not Medellin

Driving the back streets of Medellin a few weeks ago I found it interesting to see the various little pockets to the city. In the poor parts of town I noticed on a couple of occasions taxi drives running their vehicles on empty. I’ve seen this before in countries where

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