Fun and Interesting
- Can Surfing Cure PTSD? (The Kernel)
- How Prescription Drugs get so Wildly Expensive (Wired)
- Children of the Yuan – China’s 2nd Generation of Wealth (Bloomberg)
- The Sneaker Wars (GQ)
- Can Gut Bacteria Prevent Asthma? (The Verge)
- Drink More Coffee (QZ)
- The Swedish Group Behind Every Pop Song You Know (The New Yorker)
- This was fascinating
- The Next President Needs a National Food Policy (Medium)
- Harvard’s Debate Team Loses to New York Prison Inmates (The Guardian)
Personal Improvement
- Why We’re Better Off with Fewer Friends (QZ) – Not sure about this argument
- Exercise decreases sad and suicidal thoughts (Common Health)
- How to Rewire Your Brain for Happiness (Psych Central)
- The Get My Shit Together Afternoon (Medium)
- Pete Sampras letter my Younger Self – and the ZTL comments from it (Players Tribune)
Finance
- I don’t know and I don’t care (Jason Zweig)
- The Expectations from a 60/40 portfolio (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- Is the 2% Rule the new 4% Rule? (Seeking Alpha)
- Apathy as a Strategy (A Wealth of Common Sense)
- Calculating Cost of Use – Buy vs. Rent (Gen Y Finance Guy)
- How Much is Your Job Really Costing You? (Think Save Retire)
- 5 R’s of Not Wasting Money (Budgets are Sexy)
- 2 Ways to Find an Undervalued Stock (The Conservative Income Investor)
Books
I’m currently reading Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Great read so far. (I said this last week. I’m moving slow).
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