Thursday, January 29, 2015

Links

Seneca: The Man to Know in Ancient Rome (LINK)
Related books: 
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
Letters from a Stoic
Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos: Transforming Healthcare by Embracing Failure (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) [There are a lot of other great videos from Stanford listed HERE as well.]

Bill Gates' Reddit AMA (LINK)

a16z Podcast: Coding as a Literacy (LINK)
Related books: 
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Steve Romick's Q4 2014 Letter (LINK)

Buying Warren Buffett, Richard Branson and Steve Jobs at a Discount (LINK)

Aswath Damodaran: The Dance of the Disrupted: Observations from the front lines (LINK)

Rory Sutherland: How consumer habits are subject to the law of unintended consequences (LINK)

DVD of the day: The Prize - An Epic Quest for Oil; Money & Power