One of tech's most successful investors says Silicon Valley's unicorns need to 'grow up' (article and video) (LINK)
Blackstone May Do Its Cleverest CDS Trade Again [H/T Matt] (LINK)
Structures of power: author Michael Lewis on Donald Trump, Wall Street women and Harvey Weinstein [H/T Linc] (LINK)
Business Lessons from Ben Thompson of Stratechery - by Tren Griffin (LINK)
Exponent Podcast: Episode 132 — Successful Disappointments (LINK)
How Entrepreneurial Management Transforms Culture and Drives Growth (LSE podcast) (LINK)
Related book: The Startup Way - by Eric RiesKim Jong Un’s North Korea: Life inside the totalitarian state (LINK)
The da Vinci Pause (LINK)
What DNA Says About the Extinction of America’s Most Common Bird - by Ed Yong (LINK)
New Zealand’s War on Rats Could Change the World - by Ed Yong (LINK)
Book of the day: The Way We Live Now - by Anthony Trollope [Tim O'Reilly mentioned this book near the end of his chat with Tim Ferriss, when discussing how reading bestselling novels during a given time period can be a great way to learn history, as it gives one a sense for the way people thought about things during that time. And he mentioned the The Way We Live Now as a book about the great railroad bubbles of the 1860s.]