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"It’s better to pay attention to something that is being scorned than something that’s being championed." --Warren Buffett (2005) 

What Warren Buffett's Teacher Would Make of Today's Market - by Jason Zweig ($) (LINK)

A Thread on Diversification - by Sanjay Bakshi (LINK)

Amazon's Size Is Becoming a Problem---for Amazon ($) (LINK)

Degrees of Confidence - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast: Jared Diamond (LINK)

Related book: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

Capital Allocators Podcast: Michael Mauboussin – Who’s on the Other Side (LINK)

Related paper: Who Is On the Other Side?

Exponent Podcast: A Perfect Meal (LINK)

Aswath Damodaran chats with Meb Faber (podcast) (LINK)

Acquired Podcast: The Uber IPO (LINK)

Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation (video) (LINK)

When the first stars in the Universe exploded, they really exploded - by Phil Plait (LINK)

TED Talk: Sleep is your superpower | Matt Walker (LINK)

[I'm a bit late to these, but...] The Bruce Lee Library episodes of the Bruce Lee Podcast look especially worth checking out.... Such as the episode on the Tao Te Ching and the episode on Krishnamurti's Commentaries on Living.

"Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own." --Bruce Lee

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“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” --Bruce Lee [H/T Latticework]

Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’ [H/T @MarceloPLima] (LINK)

Atul Gawande's commencement address at U.C.L.A. Medical School: Curiosity and What Equality Really Means (LINK)

Saving As Many Lives As Penicillin - Dr. Atul Gawande & Malcolm Gladwell (video) [From October of last year, but not sure I had previously seen this one.] (LINK)

Mohnish Pabrai's latest appearance on ET Now (video) (LINK)

The Psychology of Money - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

“Proprietary Product Distribution” is Better than Sliced Bread - by Tren Griffin (LINK)

De Beers to Sell Diamonds Made in a Lab (LINK)

Your Next Glass of Wine Might Be a Fake—and You'll Love It (LINK)

Worried About Big Tech? Chinese Giants Make America’s Look Tame (LINK)

In Conversation: Netflix' Ted Sarandos and Marc Andreessen (video) (LINK)

Why Your Brain Hates Other People (And how to make it think differently.) (LINK)

The Myth of 'Learning Styles' [H/T @AdamMGrant, who summarizes in his Tweet: "Your learning style is about how you like to learn, not how you learn best. Although you might enjoy listening, reading, or doing, there's no evidence that you learn better that way. We all learn through a combo of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic modes."] (LINK)

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"In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all of your preconceived fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is so useful? Because it is empty." - Bruce Lee (Striking Thoughts)

The 2017 Broyhill Book Club (LINK)

A full chapter from Intelligent Fanatics: Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants -- The Fighting Scottish Clan: Harold & Dan Leever (LINK)

When Investing in Stocks Makes You Feel Like Throwing Up and You Do It Anyway ($) - by Jason Zweig (LINK)

There’s Never Just One Cockroach in the Kitchen - by Frank K. Martin (LINK)

Exit Interview: Mark Mobius on 30 Years of Emerging Markets (LINK)

An extensive investigation into Credit Acceptance Corporation [H/T @RodBoydILM] (Part 1, Part 2)

Eddie Lampert: Just The Facts—Sears Canada (LINK)

What are the markets telling us? Peak S&P 500? Inflation break-out? Bond break-down? (LINK)

Business Lessons from Reed Hastings/Netflix (Part 2) - by Tren Griffin (LINK)

Max Levchin on This Week In Startups (Video, Podcast)

a16z Podcast: The Evolution of Payments (LINK)

Eagles quarterback Nick Foles' Super Bowl victory speech has an important lesson about failure (LINK)

"I think the big thing is don't be afraid to fail," Foles said. "In our society today — you know, Instagram, Twitter, it's a highlight reel. It's all the good things. And then when you look at it, you think, like, wow, when you have a rough day or your life's not as good as that, you're failing. 

"Failure is a part of life. That's a part of building character and growing. Like, without failure, who would you be? I wouldn't be up here if I hadn't fallen thousands of times, made mistakes. We all are human. We all have weaknesses." 

..."I think when you look at a struggle in your life, just know that that's just an opportunity for your character to grow. And that's really just been the message. Simple. Like, if something's going on in your life and you're struggling, embrace it, because you're growing."

Adam Grant talks to Lindsey Vonn (LINK)

LV: Competition is what I find joy in as well. I like pushing myself. I like setting those goals. I like knowing that I’ve executed the plan I have set forth. All those things feel good. I don’t mind the mistakes. Failures are new challenges—they make me more excited to go back out there because I did something wrong and I know I can fix it.

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“The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see I will never find the light unless, like a candle, I am my own fuel.” -Bruce Lee (source)

I Took 20 Chinese Students to Meet Warren Buffett. Here’s What Happened. - by Jeffrey Towson [H/T Tamas] (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Q&A)

Prem Watsa's 2016 letter to shareholders (LINK)

Investing When No One Really Knows What to Do - by Ben Carlson (LINK)

Trusting Management and the Limitations of Research - by Mike Schellinger (LINK)

How I Built This podcast -- 5-Hour Energy: Manoj Bhargava (LINK)

The Weird Age of “Previvors” Is Coming (LINK)

Related book: The Gene