Thursday, July 21, 2016

Links

Warren Buffett videos from CNBC this morning:
Warren Buffett: How to fix boardrooms across the US 
Buffett: Guidance could lead to malpractice
The Motivation Toolkit (LINK)

Marketplaces (and Network Effects) (video) (LINK)
Related previous link: a16z Podcast: Getting Network Effects
William Mougayar: "Blockchains: Past, Present and Future" | Talks at Google (LINK)
Related book: The Business Blockchain
Ryan Holiday: "Ego is the Enemy" | Talks at Google (LINK)
Related book: Ego Is the Enemy 
Episode 06 of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast (LINK)
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a university in New Jersey, an act of extraordinary generosity that helped launch the greatest explosion in educational philanthropy since the days of Andrew Carnegie and the Rockefellers. But Rowan gave his money to Glassboro State University, a tiny, almost bankrupt school in South Jersey, while almost all of the philanthropists who followed his lead made their donations to elite schools such as Harvard and Yale. Why did no one follow Rowan’s example?
How It`s Made | Metal Golf Clubs (video) (LINK)

An Interview With Tony Robbins (LINK)

June was the ninth month in a row that we’ve broken the global high temperature record (LINK)