What I’m Reading

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Fun, Interesting & Informative Politics and the Future (AVC) Why Nutritional Studies are so Contradictory and Confusing (VOX) Steve Nash Dissects Why The NBA’s Rookie-Veteran Relationship Is So Crucial (HuffPo) Or why everybody needs mentors We’re running out of Fish! Save the Oceans (Quartz) Who Poisoned Flint Michigan? (Rolling Stone) Buy a Goat (Ryan Holiday) Finance READ of the WEEK – What …

What I’m Reading

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Fun, Interesting & Informative Black and Blue – Stand up for the Sports Kids (The Players Tribune) Product Hunt’s Best Podcast Episodes of the Year (Product Hunt) Austin Kleon’s Top 100 Things of 2015 and his 2015 reading list (Austin Kleon) In 2015 I Learned That… (The Reformed Broker) How an angry comic with a coke habit became the Barbara Walters of …

What I’m Reading

Adam Reading

Fun, Interesting & Informative A Letter to my Unborn Grandchildren (Jason Zweig) The Top 25 photos of 2015 (The Atlantic) The Sainthood of Bill Murray (NYT) Manhood in the Age of Austerity (Aeon) The $10 Billion Divide Between Elite Sports Programs And All The Rest (HuffPo) Finance How Universities Could Improve their Cost Structure (WashPo) Vanguard Whistleblower and What it May …

Book Review – The War of Art

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Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, Killing Rommel, The Profession, The Lion’s Gate, The War of Art, Turning Pro, The Authentic Swing, Do the Work and The Warrior Ethos. He’s an incredible and prolific writer with a lot to teach. The War of Art by …

What I’m Reading

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Fun, Interesting & Informative Why the Affluent Pressure their Children so Much and The Suicides of Silicon Valley (The Atlantic) There’s a better way people. The Penny Hoarder is telling you everything you need to know for Black Friday (The Penny Hoarder) Finance What Blue-Chips should you Avoid Right Now? and What You Should Buy (The Conservative Income Investor) Passion doesn’t always Pay …

What I’m Reading

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Fun, Interesting & Informative 8 Things I Learned from Judd Apatow (The Waiters Pad) Grantland and the Future of Publishing (Stratechery) The Hunt for the Tinmouth Apple (Boston Mag) The Intolerance of Student Activism (The Atlantic) The Billionaire Uber Driver (Inc) Bill Gates on All Things Energy and Driving Innovation (The Atlantic) Airbnb Brings Surge Pricing (Time) Gecko Feet Bras …

Book Review – Thinking Fast & Slow

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Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a dense read. It’s one of the tougher things I’ve made it through recently, but if it’s well worth it if you have the time and inclination. Thinking Fast and Slow is a masters class on the human brain, it’s systems, strengths and weaknesses, and how our programming can work against us. …

What I’m Reading

Adam Reading

Fun and Interesting The first person on Mars (Vela) American Schools – Not as Bad as we Thought? (NYT) Andrew Luck – The Librarian of the Colts (WSJ) Finance A Dozen Thoughts on Investing and Retirement (Aleph Blog) How to Find Cheap Round the World Flights (Simply Fiercely) A nice perspective on “enough” vs “luxury” and the satisfaction curve (The Freedom From …

What I’m Reading

Adam Reading

Interesting Jack Dorsey Gives Away 1/3 ($200MM) of his twitter stock (QZ) Not the Steve Jobs I Knew by Walter Mossberg (The Verge) This expandable bike trailer is a mobile home you can haul (Plaid Zebra) The New Scam Industry of Kindle E-Books (WashPo) And the Reddit Post that inspired the article Finance JP Morgan teams up with Motif to bring you …

What I’m Reading

Adam Reading

Fun and Interesting What the Fish are Telling Us (Fusion) *MUST READ How Restaurant Menu’s Trick You in to Paying More (Medium) America’s Greatest Inventor – Lowell Wood (Bloomberg) Meet The Plant Breeding & Weed Smashing Robot (PopSci) Talk Therapy Found to Ease Schizophrenia (NYT) The Porn Business Isn’t Like You Think at All (Wired) How to Write Like Malcolm Gladwell …