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PBS FRONTLINE program with Atul Gawande, based on his book Being Mortal (LINK)
TED Talk - Ricardo Semler: Radical wisdom for a company, a school, a life (LINK)
Bruce Berkowitz: Fairholme Capital Conference Call [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK)
James Grant Talks Deflation, Greece, Stocks, And Weather (video) (LINK)
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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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Warren Buffett’s NetJets Gets a New Captain [H/T Linc] (LINK) NetJets Shuffle: Costs of Deviations from the Berkshire Model - by Lawrence Cunningham (LINK) New England’s top GOP donor isn’t a Republican [H/T Will] (LINK) Boston billionaire...
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Talks at Google: Tobias Carlisle discusses his book Deep Value (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Atul Gawande: What ails India's public health system (LINK) Larry Cunningham: Ocwen Would Do Well to Follow the Lessons of Berkshire’s Clayton Homes (LINK)...
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Louis Hyman lecture on his book Borrow: The American Way of Debt [H/T Matt] (LINK) Brain Pickings discusses Atul Gawande's Being Mortal (LINK) Heather Capital: How a $600 Million Hedge Fund Disappeared (LINK) On-the-record remarks by Claudio...
- Bruce Greenwald On Nestlé
Thanks to David for passing these along. Link ................... The video above is Part 2 of the Motley Fool interview. That video and the rest of them are linked to below: Part 1 (Investing overview) Part 2 (Nestlé) Part 3 (Apple)...
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PBS FRONTLINE program with Atul Gawande, based on his book Being Mortal (LINK)
TED Talk - Ricardo Semler: Radical wisdom for a company, a school, a life (LINK)
Related previous post: Ricardo Semler Lecture: Leading by Omission
Related books: Maverick, The Seven-day Weekend
Exclusive: Tesla CEO threatens firings after dismal China sales (LINK) [As Bill Bishop said: "As brilliant as Musk obviously is, he made the classic foreign CEO launching in China mistake: loudly overpromising about their nascent business."]
Bruce Berkowitz: Fairholme Capital Conference Call [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK)
James Grant Talks Deflation, Greece, Stocks, And Weather (video) (LINK)
Aswath Damodaran: How low can you go? Doing the Petrobras Limbo! (LINK)
Seth Godin: The truth about sunk costs (LINK)
Part of what it means to be a creative artist is to dive willingly into work that might not work. And the other part, the part that's just as important, is to openly admit when you've gone the wrong direction, and eagerly walk away, even (especially) when it's personal.
Yes, we have to have faith in our ability. Faith lets us do our best work. But successful artists sally forth knowing that abandoning our darlings is part of the deal.
Kahneman: Clients Driven by Losses, Not Gains [H/T CIO] (LINK)
1978 interviews with Friedrich von Hayek (LINK)
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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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Warren Buffett’s NetJets Gets a New Captain [H/T Linc] (LINK) NetJets Shuffle: Costs of Deviations from the Berkshire Model - by Lawrence Cunningham (LINK) New England’s top GOP donor isn’t a Republican [H/T Will] (LINK) Boston billionaire...
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Talks at Google: Tobias Carlisle discusses his book Deep Value (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Atul Gawande: What ails India's public health system (LINK) Larry Cunningham: Ocwen Would Do Well to Follow the Lessons of Berkshire’s Clayton Homes (LINK)...
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Louis Hyman lecture on his book Borrow: The American Way of Debt [H/T Matt] (LINK) Brain Pickings discusses Atul Gawande's Being Mortal (LINK) Heather Capital: How a $600 Million Hedge Fund Disappeared (LINK) On-the-record remarks by Claudio...
- Bruce Greenwald On Nestlé
Thanks to David for passing these along. Link ................... The video above is Part 2 of the Motley Fool interview. That video and the rest of them are linked to below: Part 1 (Investing overview) Part 2 (Nestlé) Part 3 (Apple)...