This post continues the countdown of my top ten posts of 2025. I was aiming to finish the countdown by the first of the year, but the road to heck is paved with good intentions and all that. I will now settle for finishing the countdown before the last week of the month if I
And their off! The old racing call seems like a good fit for the first week of a new business year, as everything and everyone that was put to the side for the last two weeks of December comes racing back onto the desktop.
And so it has been as well with articles, blog posts
Are you old enough to remember Soviet figure skating judges in the Winter Olympics? They used to be accused all the time of putting their thumb on the scale, lowering the allegedly “objective” scoring for American skaters so as to get the results they wanted. If you recall, I reserved the same right this year
It’s the first Friday of the Year of the Horse, making it time for the first Five Favorites for Friday post of the year. As a reminder, every Friday, I do an entry in this series, each of which covers five topics, posts, articles, podcasts or videos that caught my attention over the preceding week
Continuing with the countdown of the top ten most popular blog posts, LinkedIn posts and articles I published this year, we come to the ninth most popular, an article on LinkedIn from the summer which asked the question of “How is Private Equity Like a Coffee Frappe?”
In addition to explaining that frappe
Last year, I did a top ten countdown of the ten most popular posts on this blog in 2024, inspired by how radio DJs in my youth would count down the top 100 songs of the year to close out the year. It was a lot of fun and people seemed to enjoy it
Boxing Day is my favorite post-holiday holiday, similar in many ways but better than the day after Thanksgiving, because the latter has, over the years, been overtaken by pressure to either shop or get started on end of the year rushes for work. Boxing Day, at least for me, suffers from none of that.
Boxing
I have been thinking more and more about the tactical questions raised by the recent $90 million bad faith judgment under Massachusetts Chapter 93A against Liberty Mutual, which I discussed here. By sheer good timing, it was issued just as I was leaving to attend a major insurance coverage conference and also just before
So much to choose from to write about this week, but I am, by my own rules for this series of posts, limited to five topics. I noted last week that there was a risk I would beat holiday jokes into the ground this month, and here I go again, starting with an article about