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Barry Ritholtz talks with Howard Marks (LINK)
Related book: The Most Important Thing
Let’s Be Honest About Gold: It’s a Pet Rock - by Jason Zweig (LINK)
Bill Miller: NYSE Trading Halt Symptomatic of Broader Problem (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK)
Michael Pettis on the China stock market (LINK)
A discussion of 'The Stanford Prison Experiment' on Charlie Rose (video) (LINK)
A Dozen Things Learned from Sam Altman about Venture Capital, Startups and Business (LINK)
Related link: Sam Altman's class lectures on How to Start a Startup
Pluto and Charon Keep Getting WEIRDER (LINK)
Buddhist Geeks Podcast: What Science Can Teach Us About Practice (LINK) [Ed Catmull mentioned this talk in his book,
Creativity, Inc.]
In this episode, taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference in 2011, Kelly McGonigal, PhD in Health Psychology, speaks on how the neuroscience of meditation can help us understand how practice shapes the mind and can also offer fresh insights into concepts like mindfulness and suffering. As Dr. McGonigal presents various scientific studies that show differences in the brain functioning between meditators and non-meditators, she highlights how meditation practice benefits the practitioner in various ways such as higher pain thresholds and reduced depression.
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A Dozen Things Learned from Charlie Munger about Making Rational Decisions (LINK) A Dozen Things Learned from Charlie Munger about Mental Models and Worldly Wisdom (LINK) Related book: Charlie Munger: The Complete InvestorJason Zweig: 5 Things...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb's interview at the Tomorrow Conference in June 2015 (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Related book: AntifragileRichard Thaler talks to Barry Ritholtz about his book, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (LINK)...
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Sanjay Bakshi with more thoughts on Nestlé and Maggi (LINK) The Anti-Poverty Experiment - by Jason Zweig (LINK) Daphne Koller on the Future of Online Education [H/T Matt] (LINK) A Dozen Things Learned from Jim Goetz about Business, Startups and Venture...
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Presentations from The Ben Graham Centre’s 2015 Value Investing Conference [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Nestle chairman: Heinz owners have 'pulverized' the food industry [H/T Matt] (LINK) The Apollo Asia Fund's Q1 Report (LINK) Horizon...
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Sam Altman On Econtalk
Link to: Sam Altman on Start-ups, Venture Capital, and the Y Combinator Sam Altman, president of startup accelerating firm Y Combinator, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Y Combinator's innovative strategy for discovering, funding, and...
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