SECTION · 4 ARTICLES
How money behaves, how work rewards, and how people are led. Descriptions of how things work — never financial advice.
BACKGROUND · GIOVANNI BATTISTA CARACCIOLO, THE CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW, C. 1625–30 · THE MET, OPEN ACCESS
MONEY, WORK & LEADERSHIP · 5 MIN · 11 POINTS
Eleven productivity ideas traced to their origin. Four hold up as stated, five have a real idea under a newer name or a changed meaning, one famous chart was never in the research, and one we could not date.
MONEY, WORK & LEADERSHIP · 8 MIN
MOASS stands for “Mother Of All Short Squeezes”: a name for an extreme short squeeze. The phrase has been used for squeezes that happened; used about GameStop since 2021, it names one people expect, which is a forecast, and this page makes no prediction.
MONEY, WORK & LEADERSHIP · 8 MIN
The Art of War is divided into 13 chapters and is traditionally credited to Sun Tzu; when it was written, and by whom, is still discussed.
MONEY, WORK & LEADERSHIP · 8 MIN
Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997), by Robert Kiyosaki with Sharon Lechter, contrasts two father figures to argue that attitudes to money, not income, decide who ends up rich. In Kiyosaki's words, what makes people rich or poor is "their vocabulary, what they say".
