Publications
November 18, 2016
Weekly Report 16-47
FAMILY AND BUSINESS LEADERS WHO ARE MOST EFFECTIVE at optimal wealth protection and profitability with minimal risk generally utilize independent experts to focus and counsel on strategic and longer-term issues to provide input for broad and reality-based perspective. This allows decision-makers to best avoid ‘not knowing what they don’t know’ and best ensure that prudent... Continue
November 18, 2016
Weekly Report 16-46
AS INSANE AS THIS WEEK’S ELECTION STRUCK MOST OF US, the next one in 2020 will make it look like kids’ play. “The most important factor influencing voting decisions is one’s social network” (this year over 50% of Americans log into Facebook alone) so political campaigns will be mining not only social graphs, but photos,... Continue
November 5, 2016
Weekly Report 16-45
“THE MORE INFLUENCE THAT TECH PRODUCTS EXERT OVER OUR BEHAVIOR, THE LESS CONTROL WE HAVE OVER OURSELVES… The average person checks their phone 150 times a day… as Silicon Valley tech companies are getting better at getting people to make the choices they want them to make… by pumping us with dopamine to keep us... Continue
October 30, 2016
Weekly Report 16-44
THE WAY OUR COUNTRY RUNS ELECTIONS IS “A PROCESS DESIGNED TO BE REGRESSIVE – distracting us with trivialities which drive us apart during two years of furious arguments, a divide-and-conquer mechanism that keeps us from communicating with one another, and prevents us from examining the broader, systemic problems we all face together… The rules of... Continue
October 30, 2016