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How to Tell a Business Story Using the McKinsey Situation-Complication-Resolution (SCR) Framework
SCR helps the writer efficiently organize their thoughts and helps align the readers to a high value conclusion.
Jeff Hulett
Apr 54 min read


Wayne Gretzky and creative-divergent thinking
Connect the dots between “what is” in the present and “that which may be" in the future.
Jeff Hulett
Dec 30, 20245 min read


Making Choices, Making Money: Your Guide to Making Confident Financial Decisions
The connection between personal financial success and confident decision making is iron-clad. You may think your decision-making process...
Jeff Hulett
Nov 11, 20241 min read


The Regenerative Life: How to be an ergodic pathfinder
This article is about managing personal risk and uncertainty as part of our mission to build a more regenerative life. [i] "Personal" is...
Jeff Hulett
Jul 22, 202325 min read


James Madison University and making a better world for our daughters
JMU's Finance board does amazing work supporting female achievement and facing gender diversity challenges. …. and we still have work to do.
Jeff Hulett
Mar 8, 20236 min read


Great decision-making and how confidence changes the game
The best decisions and successful decision implementation are outcomes signaled, encouraged, and empowered by confidence.
Jeff Hulett
Aug 23, 202218 min read


How does a first-time homebuyer compete with an all-cash offer from an investment firm?!
This graph tells 2 very different stories - On the one hand, it tells the story of higher investment yields in the single-family rental...
Jeff Hulett
Apr 4, 20221 min read


Why buying a car is so similar to buying a private college education
First, I recognize comparing the not always savory car sales process to the hallowed college and university enrollment decision may seem...
Jeff Hulett
Mar 12, 20226 min read


Good decision-making and the nuances of accuracy and precision
This article explores the nuances of accuracy and precision. Included in the journey are their close cousins - bias and noise. We start...
Jeff Hulett
Feb 25, 20226 min read


A practical example about buying or selling stocks
In our article, Investment Thoughts For Our Children we suggest: “Investment risk management is a function of time. I.e., the longer the...
Jeff Hulett
Feb 5, 20222 min read


The Investment Barbell Strategy
Building an effective investment barbell strategy is not hard. This article provides the framework.
Jeff Hulett
Jan 1, 202217 min read


Be like Rudy: Community College as a smart, lower-cost path for Higher Ed
Students that meet recruiting criteria AND came via a community college path often have a positive, differentiated resilience signal.
Jeff Hulett
Dec 10, 20218 min read


The Road To Absurdistan: Student lending psychology and bizarre incentives
This imaginary home financing narrative takes place in an alternate world called “Absurdistan.” This story helps relate the hidden...
Jeff Hulett
Oct 13, 20213 min read


9/11 - how bankers beat terrorists
We were determined not to let the bastards beat us. We dug deep into our kind and resilient human nature.
Jeff Hulett
Sep 14, 20212 min read


Resolving Lending Bias - a proposal to improve credit decisions with more accurate credit data
Don’t blame the algorithm for our past mistakes…. fix the mistakes as found in the data of our past reality.
Jeff Hulett
Sep 7, 202116 min read


Choose a great investment advisor: Human vs. Robo
The Stoic's Arbitrage is a long-term value creation approach that can be worth many millions.
Jeff Hulett
Aug 27, 20217 min read


Anatomy of a "pump and dump" scheme
Don’t be on the wrong side of a pump and dump scheme .... and the right side is akin to catching a falling!
Jeff Hulett
Feb 23, 20212 min read
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