The North Atlantic, at night. Hours of nothing on a sonar screen. Then a trace so faint that almost anyone would call it noise and move on. In anti-submarine warfare, that moment has a name: a faint contact. And the … Continued
I can usually tell how one of my chip shops is doing before I’ve looked at a single number, and I do it with my ears. If I walk in and all I can hear is the fryers and the … Continued
Run a coastal hospitality business and you feel the rhythm in your bones. Summer floods in like a tide; September empties the room. Seasonality isn’t a flaw in the model, it’s the model. The question is whether the seasons run … Continued