Fun, Interesting & Noteworthy
- How Trump invested Trump & Donald Trump vs the Index Fund (Bloomberg)
- No one is listening on your stupid conference call (The Atlantic)
- The shameful asset forfeiture by police against sex workers (Reason)
- Fascinating behind the scenes of a sound editor for the movies (The Guardian)
- Rethinking Work (NYT)
- Price of e-books went up on Amazon and sales went down. What’s the confusion? (WSJ)
Personal Finance
- Building a full salary on Craigslist – always on the hustle (Punch Debt in the Face)
- The 25 most promising jobs for Millennials (Forbes)
- How to bottom fish the market (WSJ)
- Putting market crashes in perspective (About.com – Joshua Kennon)
- Is Silicon Valley in Another Bubble? (Vanity Fair)
- “You know there’s a bubble,” the saying goes, “when the pretty people show up.”
Personal Improvement
- Clapton, The Band and grace under pressure (Steven Pressfield)
- On advising students to fail – it’s a bad idea (Science Blogs)
- Oliver Sacks and the Sabbath (NYT)
- “And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense of peace within oneself. I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.”
Feynman on Beauty
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