Showing posts with label Ricardo Semler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ricardo Semler. Show all posts

Monday, March 20, 2017

Links

Warren Buffett on the Dan Patrick show (audio/video) [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Ricardo Semler on The Tim Ferriss Show (podcast) (LINK)
Related books: 1) Maverick; 2) The Seven-day Weekend 
Related link: Ricardo Semler's LeadWise podcast 
Related previous post: Ricardo Semler Lecture: Leading by Omission
Busy vs. Productive - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

Complacency and Cheeseburgers - by Mike Dariano (LINK)

A Dozen Ways “Virality” Can be Misused and Misunderstood - by Tren Griffin (LINK)

A few presentations are available from the recent Grant's Conference [H/T @StaleyRdCap] (LINK)

Brave Warrior's Glenn Greenberg reveals his big market bet right now in rare interview (LINK)

The Education of an American Sage (LINK)

How I Built This is a podcast -- Kendra Scott Design: Kendra Scott (LINK)

Ad Agencies and Accountability - by Ben Thompson (LINK)

Yuval Noah Harari talks with Barry Ritholtz on the Masters in Business podcast (LINK)
Related books: 1) Sapiens; 2) Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari talks with Sam Harris on the Waking Up podcast (LINK)

Shocking stories tell tale of London Zoo’s founding (LINK)
Related book: The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851
A review of the book But What If We're Wrong? (LINK)
Related video: Chuck Klosterman: "But What If We're Wrong" | Talks At Google
An ancient memorization strategy might cause lasting changes to the brain [H/T @ChrisPavese] (LINK)
Related book: Moonwalking with Einstein 
Related previous post: Memortation, or One Way to Put What You Learn to Practical Use [At the end of this post, I mentioned that I had started to create a memory palace for all of Charlie Munger’s misjudgments in his speech “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment.” For those golfers out there, the front nine of the golf course I grew up playing proved to be the perfect thing to use as a memory palace for this; moving from tee to fairway to green, etc. ]

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Links

PBS FRONTLINE program with Atul Gawande, based on his book Being Mortal (LINK)

TED Talk - Ricardo Semler: Radical wisdom for a company, a school, a life (LINK)
Related books: MaverickThe Seven-day Weekend
Exclusive: Tesla CEO threatens firings after dismal China sales (LINK) [As Bill Bishop said: "As brilliant as Musk obviously is, he made the classic foreign CEO launching in China mistake: loudly overpromising about their nascent business."]

Bruce Berkowitz: Fairholme Capital Conference Call [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK)

James Grant Talks Deflation, Greece, Stocks, And Weather (video) (LINK)

Aswath Damodaran: How low can you go? Doing the Petrobras Limbo! (LINK)

Seth Godin: The truth about sunk costs (LINK)
Part of what it means to be a creative artist is to dive willingly into work that might not work. And the other part, the part that's just as important, is to openly admit when you've gone the wrong direction, and eagerly walk away, even (especially) when it's personal.  
Yes, we have to have faith in our ability. Faith lets us do our best work. But successful artists sally forth knowing that abandoning our darlings is part of the deal.
Kahneman: Clients Driven by Losses, Not Gains [H/T CIO] (LINK)

1978 interviews with Friedrich von Hayek (LINK)