Hello, <<First Name>>

So, what to do eh?

You're meant to be in Cape Wrath going on boat trips like this one.



Every day your Google Photos and Facebook Memories are bombarding you with golden beaches, iconic sea stacks, family wind walks, you know the ones where you're all leaning into it in waterproofs, hair all over the place (well, Rach and the boys at least). Not to mention ridiculously sumptuous hot chocolates at Cocoa Mountain.

And where are you?

Broken up for a week (second week's holiday cancelled due to potential boredom), with the great excitement of stay-home turning to stay-local and Zak finally getting his mop cut.

It's at times like these when we all need our own little Neilston Pad.

Wherever you live, my guess is you're familiar with eking out the magical from the ordinarily mundane.

Neilston Pad is a pleasant walk around pleasant woodland with some nice Forestry Commission-type gravel tracks to guide one on one's way.

Yes, there's a superb secret tree passage that a friend of mine passed on to another friend of mine, who passed it on to me. In turn I took my family there and friends of ours have sought it out in vain.

But in the grand scheme of things it ain't all that.

Yet at the moment it's like finding Shangri-La on what for all I know was once a slag heap attached to an ex-pit village (wrong, textile processing, thank you Wikipedia).

People round my way speak of it in hushed tones, like somehow they've discovered a magical kingdom where one can dream of hills, mountains, great works of engineering.

Those in the know refer to it as "the Pad", and certainly it has proved a boon for blokes who have spent far too much time trail running within a 30-minute radius of their house (can you measure a radius in minutes, I'm not sure).

Such blokes' popularity has soared; I am even considering offering 1-2-1 relatively-mundane-yet-at-the-moment-searingly-brilliant-local-walk consultations.

Still, as I was only this evening saying to a friend I passed in the park whose hair has become a work of modern art during lockdown and could easily be sold as an NFT, we're nearly there.

Just one last push.

April 26 is but three weeks and a few days away.

Until that time, in one hour I will be corralling the kids and setting off with my wife in search of that secret tree-passageway.

And genuinely, I cant wait

Right, on with the show.


I do hope you enjoy reading the best of what I've stumbled across this past week.
 

Dave @zudepr
I Fancy a 1-2-1 Consultation With This Guy, So Enthralling Are His Digressions
#1 Quantifying The Motley Fool's Small Cap Investment Strategy...

A good listen. But will it be the best performing strategy for the next 17 years?

This is a brilliant series of blog posts on Monevator. The Slow and Steady Passive Portfolio gets its quarterly update.

H/T to The Investor for this one re: a new world ESG Vanguard fund.

Amen to this from The Escape Artist.

Good news for Boeing and air travel in general.

It's a bubble says the tashmeister (love this man's writing).

Its the future, says Brian. Batnick agrees. 

I share a lot of Packy McCormick's excellent writing. Batnick takes a peek "under the hood". Not sure whether it belongs in this section or the comms one; absolutely genius idea (using stellar content to generate what he calls dealflow).

Show me the money, POTUS.

Investing versus speculating. H/T to Indeedably for this one.

Lessons from 119 years of capital market data.

The Prof nails crypto. Aged 48, I'm not even sure I should be writing a sentence like that.

The lads at Telescope add Nano-X Imaging ($10-15k prototype x-ray device awaiting FDA approval) to their hypergrowth (super-risky) portfolio. And Albert adds ExOne (3D printing). Still loving their weekly podcasts.


Similar portfolio to the Telescopes. This guy used to post more frequently but his quarterly reviews (latest out today) are well-worth reading, if you are interested in investing in Brian's future.

#2 10 Reasons Why Novels Get Rejected By Publishers...

Thinking of writing a book? Read this first.

This one made me laugh. Also worth a gander if you ever think you have a book in you (if that's you, you do, I'm sure you do, and don't let this sort of jocular negativity put you off).

Included for Ann's intro that applies, as she concludes, to any long-term creative endeavour. It's got to matter, more than anything. And the more it matters the better the creation.

I doubt it. Most of this has been common knowledge for years.

Talk about taking a bit of fun too far. All fine until they went on the record saying it was actually true. Hell hath no fury like an influential media publication scorned.

Not sure whether to applaud the old skool chutzpah or throw my hands up at the shonky methodology. Anatomy of a certain type of PR story. Kudos to Dan Barker.

Try it.

This is a spin-off from a PR Facebook group I recommend you join if you work in public relations. The second, I think, WaddsCon.


#3 Joe Biden's Secret Sauce...

Be boring, keep your head down and get on with the job.

#4 It’s Child’s Play as Chris Thompson wins British Olympic Marathon Trials...

To run a 2:10 marathon is impressive in anyone's book. But to do it in your fortieth year, after an athletics career beset by injuries, in the week your wife gave birth to your child.

That's different level. And did you see the nick he finished in? Phenomenal.

If you're not particularly interested in investing, comms or marathon running, this is the section for you.

A simple six bonus posts this week for your delight and delectation. here goes?

Ever wondered which modern-day books will stand the test of time looking back in, say, 2050? Your prayers have been answered.

And answered again.

Mark Carney on values.

Are you lonesome tonight?

Louvre art now online. Searchable. Don't mind if I do.

Skiing in covid.

Right, that's all folks. I'm off to...well, you know where I'm off to this week. 

Have a great weekend. Enjoy your Pad. 

Tootle pip.

Dave @zudepr
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