Notes From The Week
Weekly musings at the intersection of business, politics, art and culture.
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This week we explore how Telegram became crypto's digital speakeasy, and what my 52% loss on Freetrade teaches us about startup dreams.
This week we explore modern mobility, seasonal living, and what it means to be local in our borderless world.
This week we explore how infrastructure rewrites economic narratives, examine worldly wisdom in an AI age, and consider how cultural homecomings could reshape national economies.
This week we dive into and explore the cultivation of taste as a uniquely human capability.
This week we'll be revisiting a modern classic in Solange's A Seat at the Table and consider why it is important to find good teachers.
This week we unpack the surprisingly ordinary ingredients of extraordinary achievement and consider how evolving state-citizen relationships are reshaping the global landscape.
This week I share some thoughts on why the next book you read should be fiction.
This week we check out our spotlight book for the month: Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi and dive into the world of relationship building.
This week we look at how building robust systems can provide the key for sustained personal and professional growth.
This week I curate thoughts by friends paying homage to the art form that provided us with a language in a world committed to keeping us silent.
Capturing Legends: Neil Leifer's timeless lens on sports. This week we take a look at Leifer's most iconic Images and their enduring cultural significance.
The story of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of the Atomic Bomb, is currently being depicted on the big screen. I share some thoughts on Oppenheimer and why its reminiscent of a Greek myth.
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