Any successful career will at one point see a peak and then a decline. If we take authors as an example, Truman Capote hit his peak with the release of In Cold Blood, but never finished another novel, descending into alcoholism and drug addiction. Capote’s good friend Harper Lee wrote the classic To Kill A Mockingbird, but she never published another novel (a first draft of To Kill A Mockingbird was published under another title in 2015). Consider active investment managers. Many can be lauded for their successes and anointed as geniuses we should follow, but there’s a reason for…

If you have even a passing interest in films, you’ll probably know the names Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Both have been mainstays of the film business since the early 1970’s, with the pair acclaimed and awarded for their performances dating back to that decade. Despite their long resumes and regular appearances in gangster and crime films, the pair have only appeared onscreen together in the same film twice. First in the exceptional ‘Heat’ (1995) and the terrible ‘Righteous Kill’ (2008). Both appeared in The Godfather II, but never appeared together onscreen. De Niro played a younger version of…