“A trust-based, win-win culture that’s genuine in every respect is how to take the normal levels of human effort; such as productivity, co-operation, and ingenuity; and to multiply them by five or 10 times.” -Peter Kaufman (source)
Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire (LINK)
Workplace culture should be measured, just like sales or ROI (LINK)
Michael Bloomberg on 60 Minutes (video) (LINK)
The media mogul says most of his fortune will go to his foundation - viewing personal philanthropy not as a threat to democracy, but a way to get things done.Hamdi Ulukaya on 60 Minutes (video, from 2 weeks ago) (LINK)
Hamdi Ulukaya built the best-selling yogurt brand in the U.S. after coming here 23 years ago. Today, 70% of Chobani employees are American born, 30% are immigrants and refugees.Grab Your Pitchforks, America, Your 401(K) May Need Defending From Congress - by Jason Zweig (LINK)
Reid Hoffman on How to Be a Great Founder - by Ian Cassel (LINK)
Mohnish Pabrai's two cents on Seritage Growth Properties (LINK)
Mental Model: Hanlon’s Razor (LINK)
Latticework of Mental Models: Physics Envy (LINK)
The Rise of the Freemium Business Model - by Tren Griffin (LINK)
Starting Is Easy, Finishing Is Hard - by Fred Wilson (LINK)
Tesla Has Something Hotter Than Cars to Sell: Its Story [from a couple of weeks ago] (LINK)
As Tesla shares surged past $300 this week and the company’s market value surpassed Ford’s, even its founder, Elon Musk, acknowledged on Twitter that the company was “absurdly overvalued if based on the past.”
How I Built This podcast -- Real Estate Mogul: Barbara Corcoran (LINK)...“It’s nuts,” Bruce Greenwald, a professor at Columbia Business School and an expert in value investing, said of Tesla’s stock price. “Investors believe it’s going to dominate a market that no company has ever dominated before.”
Russell Napier talks to James Grant (podcast) (LINK)
Related book: Anatomy of the BearG. Edward Griffin on the Peak Prosperity podcast [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK)
Related book: The Creature from Jekyll IslandScientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’ [H/T Linc] (LINK)
Watch the World’s Biggest Animal Lunge for its Dinner (LINK)
For Audible members, the current 50% off sale ends tonight at 11:59 PM PT. Here are some of the under $10 audiobooks that stood out to me (i.e. better value than using a credit):
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - by Neil deGrasse Tyson (to be released next week)
Cosmos – by Carl Sagan (to be released at the end of May)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan (to be released at the end of May)
Churchill (The Great Courses)
Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science (The Great Courses)
Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
The Wawa Way: How a Funny Name and Six Core Values Revolutionized Convenience
Economics in One Lesson - by Henry Hazlitt