by James Beall | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog
The markets are volatile because they don’t know how to price this level of uncertainty. Companies continue to innovate and conduct business around the world. Nothing has changed. Imagine a worldwide flu that last twice as long and kills 10-20 times as many people....
by James Beall | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog
The COVID19 Coronavirus is an uncertainty event. Nearly everything we need to know about it is either not available or outside our control. To make informed decisions though you must use the best available information. As of February 24, 2020 here is the best...
by James Beall | Oct 30, 2018 | Blog
I thought I would miss it more. I don’t really. There are occasional things I wish to share but I realize I never would have done so before social media and I thought about whether it actually would be beneficial to anyone else. The end result is that most of...
by James Beall | Oct 25, 2018 | Blog
Day 25 It starts like a New Years Day resolution. It is easy for the first few days and then you just want a taste or in this case to post something. You satisfy it by updating the work FaceBook page. You admit it was an excuse. You use the free time to get stuff done...
by James Beall | Oct 3, 2018 | Blog
I had already made plans to get off social media until after the election. I like my friends and family and didn’t want the politics of the day to damage our relationship. Three events occurred to both solidify my plans and make it easier. The first is I got a new...
by James Beall | Sep 26, 2018 | Blog
There are a lot of elements to protecting yourself digitally that require little effort, little knowledge of how the computer works, and that will have a big impact on your privacy and security. If we think of your connection to the internet as a railway with stops...
by James Beall | Jan 11, 2018 | Blog
Either I was in denial or my brain was playing tricks on me. I estimated that we had about 40-45 bankers and file boxes in storage or around the office awaiting the trip to storage. Nope, not even close. I was taking a load of papers to the basement to await shredding...
by James Beall | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog
In the previous post we resolved to communicate more. Yesterday, I set out to do that and two and a half hours and one panic attack later I went home mentally exhausted. It appears a glitch in an update locked me out of the website administrators page. It also gave...
by James Beall | Jan 1, 2018 | Blog
As we tend to do at the end of a year we reflect on the past and focus on the future. In my reflections it became apparent that I was failing to communicate well and as frequently as I should. I further realized toward the end of the year that technology was using me...
by James Beall | Dec 20, 2017 | Blog
Richard Feynman has a wonderful quote that sums up a problem we have not just with finances and the modern world but with our very own brains. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. I think we have all...
