Nike founder Phil Knight writes in his memoir, Shoe Dog, “Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives.” Few sporting events have storybook endings like the recent Super Bowl. The New England Patriots overcame a 25-point deficit to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime. It was riveting to watch as the Patriots completed a series of...
As Ian Bremmer aptly said in Time magazine last year, “There are few things in this unstable world that we can project over the long term, but demographics are destiny.” Indeed, demographics are known quantities, which is a rare weapon for those in the investment trade (we rely mostly on history, statistics, and probabilities). Known quantities allow us to make...
Hidden Figures is the remarkable true story of three brilliant African-American women—Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson—who were instrumental to NASA in the early 1960’s. You probably haven’t heard of them. They worked quietly behind the scenes, overcoming a painful mix of racism and sexism. Katherine Goble Johnson was a gifted mathematician who worked as a human ‘computer’...
One of the best illustrated instances of indecision occurs in the story of Alice in Wonderland in which Alice comes to a fork in the road and must choose a path to continue her journey. She seeks the advice of a grinning Cheshire cat which appears out of nowhere. “Where are you headed?” the cat asks Alice, to which she...