Bending Spoons soared on its first day. Why the exciting IPO price is rarely the one you get, and how I read a hot new listing. Markets · Beginner The pop everybody sees On the first of July, an Italian software company called Bending Spoons, the outfit that has hoovered up faded internet names like
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Tech stumbled, and boring names climbed- what the great rotation of 2026 says about chasing winners, and the quiet case for patience. Markets · Mindset The dull stuff is winning, and that tells you something Here is a sentence I did not expect to write this month: the boring companies are beating the brilliant ones.
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Quiet luxury is losing its shine as shoppers choose experiences over objects. What the shift means for how you spend, and what real luxury is now. Lifestyle · Luxury The bag that changed nothing I once saved for months for a particular designer bag, convinced that carrying it would change how I felt walking into
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Ecclesiastes 11:6 tells us to sow morning and evening because we cannot know which will prosper. That ancient line teaches about diversifying. Faith · Investing A line older than the stock market There is a sentence tucked into the Book of Ecclesiastes that would sit comfortably in any modern investing seminar, except it is roughly
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Lifestyle · Home · Quiet Luxury The money is for life, and much of the life happens at home. A piece on making the place you live somewhere that quietly restores you. The corner I made just so There is a corner of my home that I arranged with more care than strictly makes sense,
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· Finance · Building · The Long View Generational wealth is more than a number in a will. A piece on what really lasts, what gets spent, and building something that outlives you. The question that arises with children Something shifts in how you think about money when there are people in the house who
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Finance · Real Life · Stay Safe The best scams do not look like scams. They look like a friend, a bargain, and a sure thing. Here is how I keep my money out of their reach. The message that looked exactly right Someone I love very much once showed me a message that had
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Finance · Emerging Markets The best-known companies aren’t the only place growth lives. A calm look at emerging markets, the real promise, the real potholes, and how I think about them. A city that was building itself I remember standing in a city I had never visited before, watching cranes swing against the skyline in
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Finance · Venture Capital Early-stage investing promises the earth and buries most of its bets. Here is how I think about backing a company long before it is obvious. A napkin, a big idea, and a very small company Someone once sketched an entire company for me on the back of a napkin, over coffee,
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Finance · Crypto · Infrastructure One of the strangest splits in finance right now is a company quietly succeeding while the token that carries its name goes nowhere. The problem is worth solving To see why any of this matters, start with how money moves across borders today, because it is worse than most people
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