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God bless the child… (who’s got her own)

TEACHING OUR DAUGHTER ABOUT investing – sharing values informed by our family’s circumstances, interests, and ideas extending to the larger economy. It’s the story of how we helped her to understand what money is and how it works while still learning to treat each person as having inherent worth and dignity – of how she learned to make informed choices in the context of freedom consonant with personal responsibility.

Losing Money

IT’S POSSIBLE TO MAKE a lot of money so quickly that you don’t realise the import and scale of what you’ve accomplished. Because of this it’s possible to lose it quickly, too. That’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing enough to make it difficult to admit what’s happened, even to yourself.

Winter is Coming – seek a wide moat!

Entrepreneur Investing Productivity

WARREN BUFFETT describes value based investing in a zen-like koan: “Find a wonderful business and buy it at an attractive price.” This deceptively simple doctrine begs the question of what makes a business wonderful. One of the hallmarks of a wonderful business is that it has a sustainable competitive advantage – a moat.

The Zen of Warren – The Tao of the Dow

Investing Philosophy Wellbeing

WARREN BUFFETT SAYS, “In the short-term, the market is a popularity contest; in the long-term, it is a weighing machine.” A possible way to interpret this is that no one can predict with meaningful accuracy what any publicly traded company’s stock price will be tomorrow but almost anyone can learn to correctly anticipate, most of the time, what the likelihood of success for an established business that they understand will be over time.

Mathematics – Making the Invisible Visible

Education Parenting & Family Philosophy

KATHERINE JOHNSON is a heroine of the American space program. Her work as a NASA computer (mathematician) influenced major US space shots from Mercury through the Space Shuttle. Notably, she personally calculated the trajectories for the historic flights of Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Apollo 11. Her intellect and determination provided her with the means to rise above the prejudice and discrimination of the age into which she was born.

Shozo Kato – Way of the Sword

Entrepreneur Martial Arts Philosophy Wellbeing

SHOZO KATO, master kendo sensei discusses how timeless notions of stillness and movement come together through the modern lens of Japanese sword fighting.

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Entrepreneur Parenting & Family Wellbeing

STEVE JOBS, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams.