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Interesting & Fun World’s largest rooftop greenhouse just opened (Business Insider) Crossfits simple and lucrative business model (Quartz) The rise of open curriculum (Medium) Boy asks mailman for junk mail to read – gets big surprise (Huffpo) The next wave with John Markoff (The Edge) The Genesis Engine – we can now easily edit DNA (Wired) “Using the three-year-old technique, researchers …
Fun and Interesting Are GMOS’s safe? Fraud, lies and Statistics (Slate) Drop your shit job and take the ultimate road trip (PlaidZebra) Are Apprenticeships a debt free path to the middle class? (NYT) Dealing with rejection from the founder of Airbnb (Medium) Before I go – a battle with lung cancer (Stanford) Heavy metals in organic vegetables? (Craftsmenship) Tony Hsieh (billionaire) …
I really enjoyed Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. One my my professional development goals for the year was to improve my networking, specifically how to do it in a more systematic and methodical way. I’m pretty good with AQ2people and actually do some outreach pretty regularly, but I don’t have a system. As Margaret Wheatley said, “Relationships are all …
Fun and Interesting The perfect wolf (Salon) Notes from a lecture by Peter Thiel (Imitatio) Incredible clarity of thought The Death of Golf (Men’s Journal) Netflix and the Conservation of Profits (Stratechery) What I learned when I gave up the 9 to 5 (Medium) Hubble Anniversary Images (Mashable) Judd Appatow: King of Comedy (Rolling Stone) How Uber takes over a city …
I have to say that I absolutely loved this book. The One-Page Financial Plan by Carl Richards is a masterpiece in simplicity. His ideas aren’t necessarily new and the book covers a lot of the same ground as many others. BUT Richard’s ability to distill important ideas in to simple, memorable, and teachable images is a gift. It’s incredibly accessible …
Fun and Interesting How Apple Music compares to Spotify and others (The Verge) Airbnb and the internet revolution (Stratechery) Nice profile of Onnit founder – Aubrey Marcus (AFM) Robot Origami – Looks like magic (Aeon) Finance No respect for the longest recovery ever? (Bloomberg) The 10 Financial Commandments (Irrelevant Investor) 401k’s are ripe for disruption (Finculture) A review of the All-Season …
Fun and Interesting The invention that could revolutionize battery manufacturing (QZ) Biotechs coming to cure cancer (MIT) The life of the superrich sounds exhausting (but amazing) (NYT) Change doesn’t usually come this fast (fivethirtyeight) FBI Agent: CIA could have stopped 9/11 (Newsweek) Technology and the evolution of storytelling (Medium) An Alternative-Medicine Believer’s Journey Back to Science (Wired) Man bikes from …
Finance When Ordinary beats Extraordinary (Wealth of Common Sense) 10 Things I learned writing a book (Wealth of Common Sense) Jurassic World: 7 lessons for Investors (Fortune – Josh Brown) Do we have local investing bias? (BV) Hedge fund managers beat by monkeys (again) (Marketwatch) Creating unique investing strategies (Investor Fieldguide) Fun Pixar’s Mood Master (The Atlantic) Shake Shack leads …
I recently finished up The Atlantis Trilogy by A.G. Riddle. For an unknown Kindle author’s first book (and series), these were high quality. It’s not Robert Heinlein but if you just need an easy fun read, it’s perfect. The books brought a unique perspective to an old story, had engaging characters and a fast paced, interesting story line. I’ve read other reviews …
How to maximize your Costco (or big box warehouse) savings (The Penny Hoarder) We spend tons of money at Costco. Great tips. I’ve never tried their pharmacy. I’ll be checking that out in the future. The Youth Recession: The new normal for young workers (The Atlantic) 30 things to stop doing right now (Ryan Holiday) The future of college (FastCompany) …