Working with outdated maps Many of our readers know that after spending most of our lives in New Jersey, my wife and I eventually moved down to Raleigh, North Carolina in 2012. What many don’t know is how we actually got here. A lifelong friend of mine, more like a brother than a friend, spent much of his adult…
The Board Didn’t Change… The Position Did Last month, we framed the environment through a game of chess … not because markets are a game—but because the analogy holds: The outcome is rarely determined by a single move … but by the position that move creates. We also noted: When pressure builds, it doesn’t create weakness—it reveals it. Over…
The move everyone misread In 1997, Garry Kasparov—the best chess player in the world—sat down across from a machine: IBM’s Deep Blue. Kasparov wasn’t just a champion—he was the champion. The consensus from commentators, grandmasters, and analysts alike was clear: experience, intuition, and human judgment would ultimately win. Machines could calculate… but they couldn’t understand. Then came Game 2….
Crosswinds in March March 12–15, 1993 … The “Storm of the Century” … also known as the Great Blizzard of ’93! A group of close friends and I were driving down I-95 from the University of Connecticut to Daytona Beach, Florida for Spring Break. In hindsight, it wasn’t the smartest decision we’d ever made?! At the time, it didn’t…
