Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Links

'Regular dude': Personal details set 'Becoming Warren Buffett' apart in HBO documentary [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Warren Buffett Just Quietly Bought Up Another German Company [H/T Linc and Will] (LINK)

NPR Planet Money podcast -- Episode 749: Professor Blackjack (audio and transcript) (LINK)
Related book: A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Makes Its First Acquisition, Meta [H/T Matt] (LINK)

Speed Reading is Bullshit - by Shane Parrish (LINK)

The Heroism of Incremental Care - by Atul Gawande [H/T Ben Carlson] (LINK)

Davos 2017 - A Conversation on the Future of Medicine (video) (LINK)
Join Atul Gawande, renowned surgeon and author of Being Mortal, and Francis Collins, celebrated geneticist and science policy leader, on the future of healthcare leadership and biomedical research.
Curiosity Finds An(other) Alien Visitor on Mars (LINK)

Book of the day: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo - by Irving Stone