Can Fund Manager Bill Miller Use Earthquakes to Predict the Market? - by Jason Zweig (LINK)
Ray Dalio on the Recode Decode podcast (LINK)
Related book: Principles: Life and WorkApple at Its Best - by Ben Thompson (LINK)
Detroit: From Motor City to Housing Incubator [H/T @morganhousel] (LINK)
Dennis Rasmussen on EconTalk discussing his book The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought (podcast) (LINK)
Dinosaur mass-extinction let mammals come out in the day (LINK)
The Elegant Mathematics of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s Most Famous Drawing: An Animated Introduction (LINK)
If you're an Audible member, my favorite audiobook so far this year, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is free for today only as part of Audible's 20th anniversary celebration.
Quote of the day (the book was first published in April 2007, so this was likely written sometime in the 2006-early 2007 timeframe):
“Likewise, dictatorships that do not appear volatile, like, say, Syria or Saudi Arabia, face a larger risk of chaos than, say, Italy, as the latter has been in a state of continual political turmoil since the second war. I learned about this problem from the finance industry, in which we see “conservative” bankers sitting on a pile of dynamite but fooling themselves because their operations seem dull and lacking in volatility.” –Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan