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Drunk guy
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Chris MacIntosh

Risk Management Lessons From A Drunk Welshman

If I was to watch the world news every day I would be filled with a burning desire to build myself a hut in the hills, don my hazmat suit and wait for the impending collapse of humanity. I met a guy who’d done pretty much that. He was Welsh

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Thinking Man
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Chris MacIntosh

Discomfort Can Make You Smarter (Try It!)

I love camping in the wilderness with the stars for company. The noise of chirping crickets, bubbling streams, rustling leaves, and not a soul around. I’m all for it. Even the lack of a pillow, the sharp objects poking through a skinny sleeping mat, eating dehydrated vegetables, and smelling like

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Fear
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Chris MacIntosh

False Evidence Appearing Real

One of THE most brainless and pernicious perpetrations against humanity is instilling a sense of fear where it doesn’t belong. This begins at a young age as kids everywhere are taught the same nonsense… Beware of Strangers! In the West they’ve even given it a catchy tag line. “Stranger Danger”, they

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Books
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Chris MacIntosh

How to Enhance Your Circle of Competence

A conversation with an investment promoter, let’s call him Mr Y, from many years ago came to my mind today when reading the news. It went something like this: Mr Y: “You HAVE to take a closer look at this.” Me: “No, thanks. Not for me.” Mr Y: “No, really,

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Question Everything
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Chris MacIntosh

It’s Q and A Time!

We’ve received quite a few emails from many of you over the past few weeks. I’ll answer some of the questions you’ve had and touch upon your comments here as I think they might be relevant for the others to read about. Let’s just dive right into it, shall we? Question: Dear

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Election
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Chris MacIntosh

Political Accountability from a Perspective of a Venture Capitalist

There is a great deal of chatter about the recently concluded British elections in which a posh sounding man with eyes suspiciously close together just trumped another man who obviously economically illiterate is missing a chin. During this particular circus show it’s not a leader people were picking but rather

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12 Reasons Why Here and not There

New Zealanders are like the residue of Weet-Bix left in a cereal bowl for a couple of weeks: tough! Let me give you an example. When James Grant was attacked by a shark while spearfishing his response was pretty typical of the Kiwis I know here: “Bugger, now I have to

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