Listening to the symphony Have you ever attended a symphony orchestra? If you’ve never played an instrument, it’s easy to become captivated by whatever sounds the loudest. One moment it’s the brass section commanding your attention. The next, it’s the percussion. Then the strings quietly take over before the woodwinds add another layer to the performance. Individually, each section…
Recalculating If you’ve driven anywhere unfamiliar in the last decade, you’ve probably had the same experience. You enter a destination into your GPS, pull out of the driveway, and begin following the route. A few miles later, traffic builds unexpectedly … construction appears … an accident closes a lane … or maybe you simply miss a turn. Almost instantly,…
Working with outdated maps Many of our readers know that after spending most of our lives in New Jersey, my wife and I eventually moved down to Raleigh, North Carolina in 2012.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…
