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"Probably every vice was once a virtue—i.e., a quality making for the survival of the individual, the family, or the group. Man’s sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall." --Will and Ariel Durant (The Lessons of History)

How a late night phone call from Warren Buffett in 2008 may have helped save the US economy [H/T Linc] (LINK)

The State of Technology at the End of 2018 - by Ben Thompson (LINK)

Rational vs. Reasonable - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

Verizon Takes $4.5 Billion Charge Related to Digital Media Business (LINK)

MiMedx Called on Two Lawmakers for Help Before Its Accounting Scandal (LINK)

Exponential Wisdom Podcast: The Future of Real Estate (LINK)

Ezra Klein and Kara Swisher on the future of journalism (LINK)

Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal” (LINK)

The Recurring Dread of a Paralyzing Illness - by Ed Yong (LINK)

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"The performance of public duty is not the whole of what makes a good life; there is also the pursuit of private excellence. For man, though partly social, is not wholly so." -Bertrand Russell

It appears that last June, The Reith Lectures series added some archived podcast episodes in case anyone is interested in downloading them to your favorite podcast-listening device, including one of the original ones from Bertrand Russell in 1948-1949 (you can find all of his lectures HERE.)

Farnam Street: 3 Famous Writers on the Relationship Between Reading and Writing (LINK)

Latticework of Mental Models: Liking Bias (LINK)

The 10 Biggest Retail Bankruptcies of the Last Decade [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Mutual Fund Observer, March 2016 (LINK)

Yale's Vikram Mansharamani sees bubbles bursting everywhere (video) (LINK)

Related book: Boombustology

The Voters Decide - by Ben Thompson (LINK)

Edge #450: AI & The Future Of Civilization - A Conversation With Stephen Wolfram (LINK)

Book of the day: Classics: An Investor's Anthology

Bertrand Russell and uncertainty

"I think nobody should be certain of anything. If you’re certain, you’re certainly wrong because nothing deserves certainty. So one ought to hold all one’s beliefs with a certain element of doubt, and one ought to be able to act vigorously in spite of the doubt…. One has in practical life to act upon probabilities, and what I should look to philosophy to do is to encourage people to act with vigor without complete certainty." -Bertrand Russell

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