by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Feb 9, 2021 | Thoughts You Can Use
I joined an eight-person Zoom call yesterday with a colleague who is technically on vacation. I lol’d, because obviously, joining a Zoom call with your colleagues doesn’t qualify as VACATION.Then I promised this person I’d write about them in my newsletter. Not as...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Feb 2, 2021 | Thoughts You Can Use
I cringed, opening the New York Times on Tuesday morning, to read a full-page ad saying “We built Robinhood for you.” Then my wife said “erm.” We agreed: There was an off-note about the ad. It felt like the product of a crisis communications meeting.Suffice to say the...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Jan 26, 2021 | Thoughts You Can Use
My dad gave me a couple of bits of work advice, and one of the most important was “character is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.” With that in mind, I was thrilled to read this week that President Joe Biden had warned his political appointees about the...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Jan 19, 2021 | Thoughts You Can Use
Like most people I gained the Covid-19. Actually 20. Pounds. During the Coronavirus. But I’ve been lucky enough to have a friend, Dave, who joined Weight Watchers in London, and he’s helped me lose it all again. That’s my “Matt’s Fat” chart on the fridge, tracking the...
by matthewcharlesdavis@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2021 | Thoughts You Can Use
Last year I started a bit of a public conversation about racism in the investment industry. As a person with some money invested in a few Roth IRAs, I was concerned that my efforts to build some savings might be unwittingly propping up racist practices at major...
