Long LONG week at work this time guys, so the list is relatively short. Hopefully back to our regularly scheduled posts and links next week. How a bee cured Lyme Disease (Mosaic) The Pentagons $10B boondoggle (LA Times) How athletes get great (Outside Magazine) 2 Hedge fund managers walk in to a bar (USA Today) Party Promoters re-imagining the concert …
What I’m Reading
6 Things to do in your twenties (Millenial Invest) Leave yourself wanting more (ZenHabits) My favorite farmer – Joel Salatin – on how to fix American food (WashPo) The Paypal Mafia (Fortune) The real reason tuition is so high (NYT) Warren Buffett: The Problem With 200 Page Manuals on Behavior (Farnam St) Lessons of the world’s most unique supercentenarians (BBC) John …
Book Review – Unthinking by Harry Beckwith
For more book reviews check out or Books Page. I recently finished up Unthinking – The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy by Harry Beckwith. Beckwith attempts to use his 50 years as a marketer to explain the hidden biases and mental quirks that cause consumers to do what they do. I’m not going to lie. I didn’t love …
What I’m Reading
Winning the lottery does actually make you happier (NYT) Everything I’ve done in my career terrifed me (Aasif Mandvi – Linkedin) Stanford’s most popular class – Designing your life (Fast Company) does this exist online? I’ve been looking. Can’t find it. When Vanguard mutual funds beat their ETF’s (ETF.com) The Shut-In Economy (Medium) Go Curry Cracker Makes it on Forbes! …
What I’m Reading
401k Stock Allocations at all time highs (Dana Lyons) Startups go after the mattress industry (Bloomberg) Dyson creator hopes to take batteries a leap forward (WSJ) South32 and BHP Billiton (The Conservative Income Investor) Life happens while your not paying attention (The Big Picture) Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe (Chronicle of Higher Ed) An algorithm tells companies who is most likely to quit …
What I’m Reading
What Millenials Want (MillenialInvest) Doing Nothing isn’t a financial plan (Behavior Gap) The Seagull Theory – a new mental model (IWTYTBR) Not your grandparents S&P (Joshua Kennon) Seth Godin on Money (Seth Godin) Anniversary of crisis lows is a psychological reminder (Big Picture) The Six-Year Bull Market in Five Charts (WSJ) Charlie Munger, Economics and Incentives (Farman Street) Battle of …
What I’m Reading
Living standards now and then (Cato) Lessons from Berkshire letters (Philly Value) The Warren Buffett Formula to be Smarter (The Week) Gen Y wants Fin Ind not Retire (Time) AB-Inbev disappoints on sales, starts $1B buyback (Bloomberg) Passive vs. Active and Smart Beta (Millenial Invest) – very clear thinking as usual Target has a new CEO (Fortune) Meet Silvercar the future …
Book Review and Notes: Your Money or Your Life
I recently finished up a classic, Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. This is the progenitor of the entire Financial Independence movement (at least the modern version) and I’d never picked it up. I’m glad I did. While a lot of the information isn’t revolutionary 25 years later, I’m sure it was a game changer at the …
What I’m Reading
An oral history of Chipotle (Bloomberg) Tom Brady can’t stop himself (NYT) A meltdown proof reactor design (MIT Tech) Hershey in the jerky business (WP) The history of the Shake Shack (NYT) ESPN and the future of sports (The Verge) Vinyl is cool but CD’s actually sound better (LAWeekly) People want their mindless tv (Bloomberg) Why Google Glass broke (NYT) …
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe – Book Review and Notes
I just finished reading The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe. I’ve got to be honest I didn’t love the book. It was waaaay to long to make the points it was trying to make and it goes so in to the weeds that I couldn’t make it through some huge chunks of it. However, there were quite a …