Audible's End-of-Summer Sale

I'm a bit late to this and the sale ends tonight, but for Audible members that see this in time, there are some good titles on the list for $4.95:

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

Hedge Fund Market Wizards

The Brain That Changes Itself: Personal Triumphs from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Anything

How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

The Dharma Bums

Once an Eagle: A Novel

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Warren Buffett's appearance on Bloomberg from yesterday (video) (LINK) [The full CNBC appearance is also on YouTube HERE.]

The man who sold his supermarket to Whole Foods talks about the future of grocery stores [H/T Linc] (LINK)

How Washington Made Harvey Worse [H/T @chriswmayer] (LINK)

How I Built This podcast -- Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman (LINK)

How Science Is Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction [H/T Phil] (LINK)

How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe? - by Lawrence Krauss (LINK)

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"A wise man looks for everything inside of himself; a madman seeks for everything in others." -Confucius

Warren Buffett on CNBC -- Links to videos:

Warren Buffett on his power lunch for charity  

Buffett: We have about 500,000 cars insured in Harvey's flood area

Buffett: Flood insurance doesn't have big enough risk pool  

Warren Buffett: This doesn't feel like a 3% GDP economy

Buffett: North Korea situation is very concerning

Buffett: I was wrong in my original IBM analysis

Buffett: I like Bank of America's valuation and management

Buffett: Retailers care about strength of specific brands  

Buffett: I'm not in the business of attacking any president

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Warren Buffett Backs Nuclear Fuel Bank In Kazakhstan [H/T Linc] (LINK)

In an unusual partnership, Amazon and Microsoft are working together to extend the abilities of their voice-controlled digital assistants. (LINK)

Chamath Palihapitiya on the Recode Decode podcast (LINK)

The Future of the Planet: Life, Growth and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies, with Geoffrey West (video) (LINK)

Related book: Scale

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The Great Gatsby's Long Island Mansion Listed for $17 Million (LINK)

F. Scott Fitzgerald placed his hero in this home in The Great Gatsby. Now it's being sold by James Mai, a financial whiz made immortal in The Big Short for having foreseen the 2008 financial crisis.

Critics of Controversial Insurer Dogged by Mysterious Strangers (LINK)

Discipline is having the strength to say No - by Ian Cassel (LINK)

Invest Like the Best podcast: The Wu Tang Clan of Finance, w/ Team Ritholtz (LINK)

Waking Up podcast: Sam Harris speaks with Max Tegmark about his new book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (LINK)

Richard Dawkins on the Think Again podcast (LINK)

Related book: Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

When the Moon ate the Sun - by Phil Plait (LINK)

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"If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to respond quietly, and how to stop talking when there is nothing more to say." -Leo Tolstoy (A Calendar of Wisdom)

The Wrong Side of Right (LINK)

Thousands of rail workers back at Buffett's BNSF as volumes rise [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Good News for Young Strivers: Networking Is Overrated - by Adam Grant (LINK)

Uber's New CEO - by Ben Thompson (LINK)

Benedict Evans talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of cars (podcast) (LINK)

Dan Egan from Betterment on the Capital Allocators podcast (LINK)

Chastised by E.U., a Resentful Greece Embraces China’s Cash and Interests [H/T @manualofideas] (LINK)

Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day (video plays) (LINK)

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety (LINK)

"Many stupid things are uttered by people whose only motivation is to say something original. " -Voltaire

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Despite steady profits, railroads have laid off thousands - and more cuts are likely on the way [H/T Linc] (LINK)

A Dozen Attributes of a Scalable Business - by Tren Griffin (LINK)

Exponent podcast: Episode 122 — From Intel to Disney (LINK)

Tips for saving money on a trip to Disney World (LINK)

Arthur Schopenhauer: the first European Buddhist [H/T The Browser] (LINK)

Book of the day (to be released in December): A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - by Tren Griffin

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The 19 Questions to Ask Your Financial Adviser - by Jason Zweig (LINK)

GMO White Paper -- The Good Thing About Climate Change: Opportunities (LINK)

In this white paper, Lucas White, GMO Climate Change portfolio manager, and Jeremy Grantham describe the exciting opportunities in companies in the public equity market who are involved in combating climate change (i.e., the climate change sector), either through climate change mitigation or helping the world adapt to climate change.

Horizon Kinetics' New Commentary: When is A P/E Not a P/E, or How To Turn 90 into 22 in Three Easy Steps (LINK)

Gresham’s Law & Growing Weeds - by Frank K. Martin (LINK)

The Logic of Risk Taking – by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (LINK)

What I Learned in the Last year - by Morgan Housel (LINK)

Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars (LINK)

How Roger Federer Upgraded His Game [H/T @MarceloPLima] (LINK)

A Grand Unified Theory of Unhealthy Microbiomes - by Ed Yong (LINK)

The Anna Karenina hypothesis says that every unbalanced microbiome is unbalanced in its own way.

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"And when you try too hard, it doesn’t work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much." - The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff 

The Latticework Podcast: Tom Russo on Global Investing and Mental Models in a Changing World (LINK)

See's Candies finds that brick-and-mortar stores are still a sweet spot [H/T Linc] (LINK)

Oaktree Insights: Investing in Real Assets Today (LINK)

Who really owns American farmland? [H/T @chriswmayer] (LINK)

This Robot Ship Experiment Could Disrupt the Global Shipping Industry [H/T Matt] (LINK)

Take a look at Uber’s first pitch deck from 2008 (LINK)

The Rise of Market Power? - by Tyler Cowen (LINK)

Don't forget the second step - by Seth Godin (LINK)

Why so Sirius? - by Phil Plait (LINK)

How Mushrooms Became Magic - by Ed Yong (LINK)

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"Anybody who thinks he knows what's going to happen in the investment world is deceiving himself. But anybody who thinks he knows when it's going to happen is really off base, in my opinion. I sometimes talk about what should happen, but I never talk about when it will happen." -Howard Marks

Howard Marks on ET NOW (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK)

How to Teach Engineering to a 5-Year-Old - By Bill Gates (LINK)

Disney’s Choice - by Ben Thompson (LINK)

...while the term [disruptive] is overused, the formulation is actually quite simple: a new entrant leverages a technical innovation to serve customers with a business model incumbents cannot compete with, and over time moves up the value chain until those incumbents end up with a worse product that is more expensive to boot.

Winner-takes all effects in autonomous cars - by Benedict Evans (LINK)

Mutual Funds Mark Down Uber Investments by Up to 15% (LINK)

Bottom-Up Economics - by Eric Cinnamond (LINK)

Amazon vs Maersk: The clash of titans shaking the container industry [H/T Market Folly] (LINK)

Why the Best Products Lose All the Time, According to Tony Robbins (video) (LINK)

Want to Work From Home? Tim Ferriss on the Best Way to Start (video) (LINK)

Bill Nye: "Everything All At Once" | Talks at Google (LINK)

Related book: Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem

Book of the day (an investing classic just re-released): Fortunes in Special Situations in the Stock Market - by Maurece Schiller

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The Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing's Schloss Archives (Schloss, Buffett, Graham, and more) [H/T @mjmauboussin] (LINK)

Sempra Energy to buy Oncor for $9.45 billion in blow for Berkshire (LINK)

Read Warren Buffett's touching tribute to NYSE's James Maguire (video plays) [H/T Linc] (LINK)

How to be Rational about Rationality - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (LINK)

Pat Dorsey talks with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (podcast) (LINK)

Speculation in a Truth Chamber (Philosophical Economics blog) (LINK)

How a New Audit Rule Could Bring Sunshine to U.S. Markets - by Jason Zweig (LINK)

What Would a Healthy Music Streaming Business (e.g., Spotify, SoundCloud, Pandora) Look Like? - by Tren Griffin (LINK)

Some great investing insights -- especially in regards to investing in small and micro-cap companies -- from an interview with Jeff Gramm (LINK)

How I Built This podcast -- Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid (LINK)

How Climate Change Canceled the Grizzly Salmon Run - by Ed Yong (LINK)

Book of the day [H/T 50 Things podcast]: A New Brand of Business: Charles Coolidge Parlin, Curtis Publishing Company, and the Origins of Market Research

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