Money and Finance
Links
Seth Alexander and Joel Cohen of MIT Investment Management Company talk to Sanjay Bakshi's class (LINK)
Warren Buffett and the Great Salad Oil Swindle [H/T Linc] (LINK)
Related book: Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
The guy who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme says there's one 'bigger than Madoff' [H/T @chriswmayer] (LINK)
Related book: No One Would Listen
Seth Godin on the Tim Ferriss podcast (LINK)
Brain Pickings - The Life of the Mind: Oliver Sacks’s 121 Formative and Favorite Books from a Lifetime of Reading (LINK)
Egg Russian Roulette with Peyton Manning and Magic Johnson (video) (LINK)
Book of the day:
Against the Odds: An Autobiography - by James Dyson [I also linked to James Dyson on the Charlie Rose show a couple of years ago, which was a great interview, and which you can find HERE.)
-
Links
Talks at Google - Hewitt Heiserman: "Ben Graham and the Growth Investor" (video) (LINK) Related book: It's Earnings That CountWhat Buffett and Seth Klarman Say About EBITDA (LINK) Stocks You Shouldn’t Own [H/T @chriswmayer] (LINK) Keep...
-
Links
Jason Zweig on WealthTrack (video) (LINK) Related book: The Devil's Financial DictionaryEven Michael Lewis Was Surprised Hollywood Bet on The Big Short [H/T Linc] (LINK) Related book: The Big ShortWhy and how do Munger and Buffett...
-
Links
The Audible Daily Deal looks like an interesting course from The Great Courses (for $3.95): How Ideas Spread (The lecturer also wrote a book on these ideas: Contagious: Why Things Catch On) Follow Buffett Reinsurance Guru’s Sage Advice...
-
Links
Google’s New Phone Service Bridges Cell and Wi-Fi Gaps (LINK) [It might be interesting to read this post from Benedict Evans last year first: Railways and WhatsApp.] David Ogilvy’s 1982 Memo “How to Write” Offers 10 Pieces of Timeless...
-
Links
Jim Grant's Three Part Interview With The Epoch Times (LINK) Peter Thiel Op-Ed: Competition Is for Losers (LINK) Related book: Zero to OneWoman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain [H/T James] (LINK) An important book worth checking...
Money and Finance