"I do find that most creative people end up applying different rules to their lives—in terms of how their lives are managed—because creativity doesn't necessarily conform to more traditional boundaries; whether their hours of work, places of work, circumstances. What you have to accept with creators and creativity is that one rule doesn't apply. It's whatever works for them." --Bob Iger
Bob Iger’s Bets Are Paying Off Big Time for Disney (
LINK)
Howard Marks talks with Barry Ritholtz (podcast) (
LINK)
Related book: Mastering the Market Cycle
Robert Vinall with an excellent letter on the 10-year anniversary of his fund [registration required] (
LINK)
A great list of Investment Resources [H/T Linc] (
LINK) [It may be especially worthwhile to read
THIS, 10 years after the event.]
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon doesn't think he has too much power in this economy (Corner Office podcast) (
LINK)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Investor Sentiment and the Housing Market - by John Huber (
LINK)
Risk Management - by Morgan Housel (
LINK)
How Humans Get Hacked: Yuval Noah Harari & Tristan Harris Talk with WIRED (video) (
LINK)
Yuval Noah Harari, historian and best-selling author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Tristan Harris, co-founder and executive director of the Center for Humane Technology, speak with WIRED Editor in Chief Nicholas Thompson.
Lawrence Burns: "
AUTONOMY: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car" | Talks at Google (
LINK)
Yale Is Said to Invest in Crypto Fund That Raised $400 Million (
LINK)
The Fed on Unemployment and the Future - by Frank K. Martin (
LINK)
Jim Grant on CNBC yesterday (video) (
LINK)
Michael Lewis calls Trump's approach to staffing the government 'insane' (video) [H/T Linc] (
LINK)
Related book: The Fifth Risk
For Real Vision subscribers, Kyle Bass sits down with Graham Allison, author of
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, to chat about China, geopolitics, history, and more (
LINK) [If you're not a subscriber and would to join or take a free trial, you can sign up
HERE.]
Human Action: A Chapter-by-Chapter Summary (
LINK)
Four roads we call customer service - by Seth Godin (
LINK)
On the Law of Diminishing Specialization - by Cal Newport (
LINK)
Your Work Is the Only Thing That Matters - by Ryan Holiday (
LINK)
A Controversial Virus Study Reveals a Critical Flaw in How Science Is Done - by Ed Yong (
LINK)
Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Articles [H/T
Phil] (
LINK)
A list of nonfiction journalism from 2017 that will stand the test of time.