by Andrea James | Jan 6, 2017 | Curiosity, Inspiration, That's Life, Wall Street logic
Starting in September, I started assisting Tesla with investor communications and therefore have been not blogging as much. For one, my days are full. (I am also still doing executive coaching.) For two, it seems fitting to write less. But I did want to share some...
by Andrea James | Aug 22, 2016 | Curiosity, How the world works, Wall Street logic
“And so God made the world and stocks and bonds.” —Geoff Dodd, my hilarious and competent Series 7 instructor. What is Wall Street? What’s the difference between a stock and a bond? Why do we even have a stock market? You are not alone if you...
by Andrea James | Jul 30, 2016 | Curiosity, How the world works
“Time. We kill time, spend time, lose time, make time, beat time, take time, waste time; but we virtually never consider time, much less understand it.” –Richard Berendzen, physicist, astronomer and my university professor The Atlantic contains a...
by Andrea James | Jun 23, 2016 | Curiosity, Wall Street logic
Some time a bit ago, a Seattle pastor posted this challenge question to Facebook: “To whom will you bring comfort today?” It was early morning on the West Coast, which meant I had been working about five hours already. I thought back over my morning spent...
by Andrea James | Jun 17, 2016 | Curiosity, That's Life
The Atlantic has an article, The War on Stupid People, that provides a great starting point for a discussion on innate ability versus hard work. It brings up several thoughts for me. One, it’s profoundly difficult to be low IQ in today’s economy. All the...
by Andrea James | Jun 2, 2016 | Curiosity, Lamentation
By now, most of us have heard the tragic story of Harambe the gorilla. In case you missed it, the gist of what happened is this: A toddler fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati zoo. Harambe, a 400-pound gorilla, saw the boy sitting in the water and stared...
