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A Dozen Things Learned from Paul Tudor Jones About Investing and Trading (LINK)
Sanjay Bakshi: Some Thoughts on Roller Coaster Investing (LINK)
Morgan Downey, author of
Oil 101, on The Investors Podcast [H/T beforelosingmysanity] (LINK)
Amazon Dazzles in the Brave New World of the Cloud (LINK)
6 Great Investors Explain What Makes Stocks Rise (LINK)
Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. [H/T The Big Picture] (LINK)
Four-legged fossil snake is a world first (LINK)
NASA spies Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting Sun-like star (LINK)
Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table (LINK) [Beautiful writing like this makes me excited to read Sacks' autobiography,
On the Move, soon. And catch up on some of his earlier work at some point.]
A few weeks ago, in the country, far from the lights of the city, I saw the entire sky “powdered with stars” (in Milton’s words); such a sky, I imagined, could be seen only on high, dry plateaus like that of Atacama in Chile (where some of the world’s most powerful telescopes are). It was this celestial splendor that suddenly made me realize how little time, how little life, I had left. My sense of the heavens’ beauty, of eternity, was inseparably mixed for me with a sense of transience — and death.
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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...
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The Importance of First Principle Thinking (LINK) [There is also a little bit on this in the book on Elon Musk. From that part of the book, I took a mental note on first principles to ask the questions: What are the physics (or the fundamental definition...
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A Dozen Things Learned from Charlie Munger about Risk (LINK) Related book: Charlie Munger: The Complete InvestorJames Tisch On Value Investing [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Value investing — you’d be crazy not to (LINK) [Related book: Misbehaving:...
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David Brooks on Charlie Rose discussing his new book, The Road to Character (video) (LINK) Sanjay Bakshi: WHEN YOU BUY A BANK… (LINK) The Student-Loan Problem Is Even Worse Than Official Figures Indicate [H/T Matt] (LINK) It’s Even Hard to Buy a House...
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Meb Faber with an excerpt from the Paul Tudor Jones interview in MONEY Master the Game (LINK) I mentioned the new Tony Robbins book out “Money: Master the Game” in our prior post “The All Seasons Portfolio“. I think it is a good book,...
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