I thought friendship has a hierarchy. In the beginning, you meet a familiar face. It turns into an acquaintance, then a good friend, a best friend, then a soul mate. When I was nine, I marked the progress of friendships by telling my friends my deepest secret. “My mum died the day after I was …

Every week I found things worth sharing. If you know what I’m like, you might like these things too. Financial security Time for Thinking — A memo by Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital (pdf) Howard Marks has a knack for saying “we don’t know” for many many memos. In this memo, he …