I’ve just finished reading a book called Essentialism. Well, ‘reading’ is not entirely true, ‘studying’ maybe more accurate. Like many people, in my youth I was always told to look after books and not to write in them. These days I have a view that since I paid for it, it’s my book so I […]
I was lucky enough to be invited on a small tour of the Art Gallery of NSW operations area. It involved speaking to the experts and understanding how they rejuvenate and protect the works. There is so much to it – I had no idea. In the framing department, we were introduced to a very […]
With all the attention on the bad practices of the banking and financial services industry, it was quite a change for me this week when I spoke at the Barron’s conference in Sydney. Barron’s is a US-based financial magazine that has entered the Australian market with the purpose of creating greater focus on “the top […]




