I recently sent the following e-mail to a soon-to-be-new-father. Since I've been relatively lax on new cheesy dad articles this year, I took...
I attended my first BOTOX party this year. While I resisted the urge to join in the festivities, I believe the upside from...
Our final group of graphic sins looks at what can occur when the design dominates the data. These are special effects gone wild. ...
We don’t avoid risk. Avoiding risk also means avoiding returns. Instead, we accept risk when, and only when, we are being compensated for taking it. Or as...
Welcome back to part III of our pedantic posts about proper plots. In this edition, we start to look at graphical design, specifically...
Welcome back to our serial diatribe about ineffectual graphs! In this episode, we are going to have a quick rant about superfluous graphs. The...
Graphs are ubiquitous in finance. Done properly, they can help us grasp complex ideas or interrelations at a glance—or even transport us back to...
Having too much fun can give the impression that you aren’t serious. But as far as we can tell, the correlation between appearing...
We may not be able to predict the markets, but one thing we can always see coming: a lot of hype whenever markets...
Deep work and intense focus can be overrated. Or perhaps our mental bandwidth is just aging. Either way, we need to switch gears...