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The portfolio approach to life
My definition of a portfolio is having a range of investments where risk is diversified. If you’re investing, you’re likely to be taking this type of approach. Venture Capital and other industries are likely to take this approach. When recently considering life decisions I decided that maybe taking a portfolio approach to life isn’t a [...]
Impeccable timing
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No excuse for lack of passion
YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1201607321_0']={“text”:”Yahoo”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:["shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/company/company_name","shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/company/yahoo_property","shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/domain"],”category”:["ORGANIZATION"],”metaData”:{“canonicalName”:”Yahoo! Inc.”,”domain_name”:”Yahoo”,”domain_url”:”http://www.yahoo.com/”,”exchange”:”NMS”,”symbol”:”YHOO”,”yprop_name”:”Yahoo!”,”yprop_url”:”http://www.yahoo.com/”}};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1201607321_1']={“text”:”Stanford”,”weight”:0.25,”type”:["shortcuts:/us/instance/organization/school/higher_education"],”category”:["ORGANIZATION"]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1201607321_2']={“text”:”London Business School”,”weight”:2.02413,”type”:["shortcuts:/concept"],”category”:["CONCEPT"]};I started this blog as I finished the MBA to document my transition from a graduate to a professional. Professional what? I’m not sure. Right now it’s a marketer working for Yahoo! Allow me to think out loud for a couple of minutes. Last week I was listening to a great podcast [...]
Random thoughts and the inspiration behind them
Three things I’m thinking about today: 1. It’s kind of crazy that if you build an exceptional brand that gets engrained into people, it’s hard for a competitor to overtake you, no matter how much better the experience is. Inspiration: the fact that Mapquest still dominates the US mapping market 2. Investment into public transport [...]
Legalise it?
Twice in the last three days I’ve read about how legalising drugs may solve some of the world’s problems. According to William Buiter, a professor of economics at LSE wrote in a column in the FT on Friday that: “It surely makes more sense for the government to tax the poppy harvest than for the [...]