This week’s highlights: Chronic Pain, Local Papers, and No Bones Days
Issue 445
Happy Friday!
Original Content this week:
- Linearity and Liminality Families of wealth are full of liminal spaces – family/business, current gen/rising gen, client/advisor, liquidity events, etc. As such, we must be on guard to manage the appeal of bringing straight forward linear thinking into circumstances that are anything but that.
Best,
David
Food for Thought
- WashPo – Chronic pain is surprisingly treatable — when patients focus on the brain. This is fascinating
- Today – Meet Noodle, the pug who predicts what kind of day you will have – Credit MW – A 13-year-old pug named Noodle has gone viral predicting what kind of day is ahead by whether he flops over when he wakes up in the morning: Is it a “bones” or “no bones” day?
- Esquire – The Idris Elba Effect. The coolest man on the planet won’t be shaken from his master plan. But after a bruising 18 months, the multitalented Englishman, who acts, deejays, and podcasts, and this month stars in the all-Black Western, The Harder They Fall, wants to clear up a few things.
- DallasMag – My Father, the Hitman. Doc Dolan was connected to the JFK assassination and some of Benny Binion’s bloodier work. When I was a kid, he pulled a con on me that I’m still struggling to understand.
- Vox – The problem with America’s semi-rich. America’s upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable.
Business
- WSJ – Some Investors Find Stability in SPACs. Mania for blank-check companies and subsequent selloff has created what some see as an alternative to short-term bonds
- Forbes – Meet Ramzi Musallam, Wall Street’s Top-Secret Billionaire Investor. For most financiers, “government” is a four-letter word. But private equity billionaire Ramzi Musallam has turned tragedy into a Forbes 400 fortune by distilling the motivations of the largest player in the global economy.
- TheAtlantic – What We Lost When Gannett Came to Town We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.
- Politico – World’s largest companies to pay more under global tax overhaul
- PC – Why I Prefer to Think of Stocks as Bonds
Culture / Arts/ Tech / Science
- NYP – Couple shocked to find Chihuahua hiding in luggage before flight to Las Vegas
- WashPo – How South Carolina’s Kiawah Island strikes a balance between tourism and conservation
- Telegraph – Jeremy Clarkson ‘did more for farmers in one TV series than Countryfile managed in 30 years’
- RH – The Dog Will See You Know. What if a trained dog was as good or better than a PCR test for COVID?
- FR – Why Microsoft’s $21 Billion IVAS XR Contract With The U.S. Army Is A Much Bigger Deal Than Meets The Eye
Last Week’s Most Popular
- CG – The Good Life, According to Data
- Eater – The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021: The Full List of Winners
- WashPo – Here are 9 home maintenance tasks for your October to-do list
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