Hot Rocks
A portfolio is, after all, a vessel. It is a container for our financial investments, and what we leave OUT of that container is every bit as importan…
Things Fall Apart (Part 1)
Part 1 of a three-part series on what it means to have a polarized electorate and a monolithic market. Today's note: the Age of Ridiculousness and the…
The Intentional Investor #21: Corey Hoffstein
Join Matt Zeigler as he sits down with Corey Hoffstein, a successful entrepreneur and financial innovator, for a candid conversation about his remarka…
A Death in the Family
Today I know that the meaning of the American Presidency is dead, and like the loss of a beloved family matriarch it's a loss I'll never get over. I k…
Why Am I Reading This Now? 01.13.24
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
The Intentional Investor #20: Dr. Preston Cherry
Join host Matt Zeigler as he sits down with Dr. Preston Cherry, founder and CEO of Concurrent Wealth Management and author of "Wealth in the Key of Li…
The Four Horsemen of the Great Ravine, Part 1
Every so often, things fall apart.
In the words of those who lived it, here are the vibes and the semantic signatures of the twentieth century's most…
Why Am I Reading This Now? 01.06.24
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Data Engineer I
We're looking for a Data Engineer to help build and maintain the data pipelines that power our AI-and NLP-driven narrative analysis platform. You'll w…
Business Analyst
Second Foundation Partners is looking for a Business Analyst to help us build tools that make sense of the world's narratives using generative AI.
Digital Content Writer I
Second Foundation Partners needs a talented, passionate writer intrigued by the opportunity to bring data to life through engaging daily content about…
Why Am I Reading This Now? 12.30.24
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Chapter 6: The Possibility Engine
Humans evolved to acquire symbols as quickly as possible.
Language and storytelling evolved to be acquirable as easily as possible.
That's why our …
Why Am I Reading This Now? 12.23.24
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Chapter 5: The Axe that Never Was
Our brains evolved to tell stories before they evolved to speak.
This has fundamental implications for our susceptibility to communication in the ne…
Why Am I Reading This Now? 12.16.24
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
The Prisoner
As much as our modern day Number Six – Fed Chair Jay Powell – may protest that he is a free man with lots of wiggle room on the pace of future rat…
Chapter 4: Out of Eden
If we care about the influence of social networks on our minds, why are we talking about bipedalism and the 8 million year cycle of co-evolution it ki…
Intentional Investor #19: Yuri Khodjamirian
Join host Matt Zeigler as he interviews Yuri Khodjamirian, Chief Investment Officer at Tema ETFs, in this captivating episode of The Intentional Inves…
Why Am I Reading This Now? 12.09.24
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Chapter 3: Caliban’s Garden
Man's road to becoming a storyteller began with a single step.
That step kicked off millions of years of co-evolution of the human brain, society, l…
The Global Scrum
I think the scrum is a great metaphor for what’s happening everywhere in the world right now, not just in Washington DC for the domestic US politica…