When a Tip Is Not a Tip: How Service Charges Lost Their Meaning
A tip is a message of thanks. A charge is a matter of accounting. When the two become indistinguishable, the meaning collapses.
From Sovereign Bonds to Monte Cristo: A Tale of Two Waterloos 📚
What connects a research paper on emerging market bonds to Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece? Both emerged from the post-Napoleonic era—but only one explores what truly counts.
🎭 I just quoted a dead guy who never said what I quoted.
Turns out “what gets measured gets managed” isn’t Drucker either—and the real version warns against exactly what we’re doing with it.