TokyoTalisman: 2018

Here’s what lucky people do

work harder

complain less

teach others

show gratitude

share credit

choose kindness

volunteer first

unselfishly give

trust first

good manners

stay teachable

promote others

love to explore

storytellers

love to compete

Sunday, December 09, 2018

TheMoneyIllusion � How costly is Chinese IP theft?

Saturday, December 08, 2018

How and Why to Expand the Nonprofit Sector as a Partial Alternative to Government: A Reader’s Guide — Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal

Andrew Sullivan: America’s New Religions

Friday, December 07, 2018

How to Eat an Elephant – Tamara Winter – Medium

Opinion | It Doesn’t Matter Who Replaces Merkel. Germany Is Broken. - The New York Times

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Huawei founder’s debutante daughter Annabel Yao: ‘I still consider myself a normal girl’ | South China Morning Post

Wednesday, December 05, 2018

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: US Not the Source of China's Growth, China Not the Source of America's Problems

George H.W. Bush and pundits' aversion to actual history.

How Tariffs Work, and Why China Won’t See a Bill - The New York Times

Tim Harford — Article — Self help books that work

Tuesday, December 04, 2018

The Grumpy Economist: Flowers not tariffs

When Things Stop Working – Of Dollars And Data

Hedge Fund Dream Job Is Vanishing as Harsh New Reality Sets in - Bloomberg

Japan’s age wave: Challenges and solutions | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

Monday, December 03, 2018

How to Use Behavioral Finance in Asset Management, Part I - The Big Picture

Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush? - POLITICO Magazine

The Fear Virus – Future Crunch – Medium

George H.W. Bush Dead at 94 - 41st President Failed to Confront the Republican Party's Rising Madness

Saturday, December 01, 2018

How Can You Help Someone Who Is Depressed? - WSJ

Opinion | A European Goes to Trump’s Washington - The New York Times

George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dies at 94 - The Washington Post

The Grumpy Economist: Opinions change

George Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94 - The New York Times

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Biggest Pay Raise on Wall Street Goes to Stock Derivatives Traders - WSJ

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Stephen Hillenburg, ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Creator, Dies at 57 - The New York Times

Monday, November 26, 2018

Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets | The New Yorker

Sunday, November 18, 2018

New Peanut Allergy Drug Shows ‘Lifesaving’ Potential - The New York Times

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Cliff Asness – The Past, The Present & Future of Quant [Invest Like the Best, EP.111]

Monday, November 12, 2018

Persistence That Just Ain’t So | CFA Institute Enterprising Investor

10 Impressive Questions to Ask in an Interview 2018

In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs. Or Make Their Own. - The New York Times

Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Suicides Among Japanese Children Reach Highest Level in 3 Decades - The New York Times

Sunday, November 04, 2018

Halloween Article: The Election of Coroners in America – MCI Maps

Saturday, November 03, 2018

How a Japanese elementary school prepared my child for college in the U.S. - The Washington Post

Opinion | The Long Struggle for America’s Soul - The New York Times

Friday, November 02, 2018

A 5-Year-Old’s 15-Page R�sum� Captivates China - The New York Times

Saturday, October 27, 2018

In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate. It’s an Obsession. - The New York Times

Friday, October 26, 2018

What My Harvard College Reunion Taught Me About Life - The Atlantic

Friday, September 28, 2018

Andrew Sullivan: At Kavanaugh-Ford Hearings Everyone Lost

Opinion | ‘Is This Good?’ - The New York Times

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, and the World of 1982 - The Atlantic

Sunday, September 23, 2018

The Best Finance Books, recommended by Andrew Lo | Five Books

Opinion | The Patriarchy Will Always Have Its Revenge - The New York Times

Saturday, September 22, 2018

The housing bubble, the credit crunch, and the Great Recession: A reply to Paul Krugman

Opinion | We Are Not the Resistance - The New York Times

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94 - The New York Times

(10) Jeff Bezos, CEO and Founder, Amazon - YouTube

Fatal Shark Attack Off Cape Cod Is First in Massachusetts Since 1936 - The New York Times

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Opinion | Money Talks. Will the G.O.P. Listen? - The New York Times

10 Years and 10 Lessons from the Financial Crisis - Pragmatic Capitalism

3 Investments That May Have Hit Their Peak - The New York Times

Don’t Take Asset Allocation Advice From Billionaires

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. - The New York Times

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

The Incredible Shrinking Hedge Fund

Who Was the Falling Man from 9/11? - Falling Man Identity Revealed

September 11, 2001; Steve Miller Ate a Scone, Sheila Moody Did Paperwork, Edmund Glazer Boarded a Plane: Portrait of a Day That Began in Routine and Ended in Ashes (washingtonpost.com)

Monday, September 10, 2018

Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? | The New Yorker

Sunday, September 09, 2018

Yo-Yo Ma: ‘Huge ego is very often matched by huge insecurity’ | Financial Times

Photos: Typhoon Jebi Rages Across Japan - The Atlantic

Thursday, September 06, 2018

Submerged Risks of Climate Change Haunt Low-Level Airports - Bloomberg

Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration - The New York Times

Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Is Real Estate a Non-Correlated Asset Class?

Why so little has changed since the financial crash | Financial Times

What the Experts Want Us to Know About Public Health - The New York Times

Opinion | What’s the Point of the Supreme Court? - The New York Times

Monday, September 03, 2018

Crazy White Boys

Qmap: The Deep State Mapping Project- A historic perspective on the bad actors of today — Steemit

Sunday, September 02, 2018

Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth Warren’s rise in law - The Boston Globe

This is how successful people think differently | World Economic Forum

Saturday, September 01, 2018

Barack Obama's Eulogy for John McCain: Full Text - The Atlantic

Thursday, August 30, 2018

“It Seems Like Iowa in 2007”: Is Beto O’Rourke the Left’s Obama-Like Answer to Trump in 2020? | Vanity Fair

Elizabeth Warren's Definition of Capitalism - The Atlantic

Strip Out Trump Tax Cut and S&P 500 Profits Are Still Surging - Bloomberg

Sunday, August 26, 2018

How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Monero? | Great Wall of Numbers

David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’ – Rolling Stone

Trump’s War on the Justice System Threatens to Erode Trust in the Law - The New York Times

Friday, August 24, 2018

PT-109: William Liebenow saved John F. Kennedy's life during World War II with the help of an SOS carved on a coconut - The Washington Post

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Expected Returns & The 7 Year Itch

Monday, August 20, 2018

Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor | The New Yorker

Saturday, August 18, 2018

The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown - The Washington Post

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Will Demographic Headwinds Hobble China’s Economy?�� Liberty Street Economics

What Data Scientists Really Do, According to 35 Data Scientists

The biggest policy mistake of the last decade

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Survivorship Bias on Wheels - The Big Picture

Monday, August 13, 2018

Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road - Bloomberg

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Tyler Cowen shares 10 things he's learned

Bruised absolute return funds are dumped by investors | Financial Times

Friday, August 10, 2018

Vanguard Dropping 'Precious Metals'; Traders Ask Is This The Bottom | Kitco News

Thursday, August 09, 2018

Axios PM - August 9, 2018 - Axios

Wednesday, August 08, 2018

War Without End - The New York Times

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

New York's Vision Zero success provides road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths | CBC News

A Dream Crushed on a Mountain Road: The Cyclists and the ISIS Militants - The New York Times

Monday, August 06, 2018

Hard work may not pay after all | Financial Times

Friday, August 03, 2018

Hedge funds fight back against tech in the war for talent | Financial Times

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views: Mistakes will be made - just don't make any on purpose

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election - The New York Times

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect'

Monday, July 23, 2018

The Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Holocaust denial controversy, explained - Vox

Sunday, July 22, 2018

The NRA Got Played by Russia | GQ

Opinion | The Heartbreak of Raising a Black Daughter in a Red State - The New York Times

Monday, July 16, 2018

Opinion | I Know What Incarceration Does to Families. It Happened to Mine. - The New York Times

The full story of Thailand’s extraordinary cave rescue - BBC News

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Michiko Kakutani: By the Book - The New York Times

Saturday, July 14, 2018

WeWork vies for lease of New York’s landmark Flatiron | Financial Times

Richard Elden Used Newspaper Skills to Find Best Bets in Hedge Funds - WSJ

Friday, July 13, 2018

Thai cave rescue: Inside the treacherous rescue operation to free the boys trapped in a cave - The Washington Post

Republicans Thought Peter Strzok Would Be a Punching Bag. He Just Knocked Them Out.

Thursday, July 12, 2018

‘Still Can’t Believe It Worked’: The Story of the Thailand Cave Rescue - The New York Times

The U.S. Senate is facing a legitimacy crisis – ThinkProgress

Hell for Elon Musk Is a Midsize Sedan - Bloomberg

That Spitting Thing at the World Cup? It’s Probably ‘Carb Rinsing’ - The New York Times

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

The Thai Cave Rescue, Before Its Triumph, Teetered on the Brink of Disaster - WSJ

Let me out of Guantanamo: A detainee's plea - NY Daily News

Monday, July 09, 2018

Do better scientists smile more? - Marginal REVOLUTION

Smile more

Do better scientists smile more? - Marginal REVOLUTION

What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?

Saturday, July 07, 2018

It Can Happen Here | by Cass R. Sunstein | The New York Review of Books

Friday, July 06, 2018

Returning to Manzanar - The New York Times

Donald Trump has sounded America’s global retreat | Financial Times

Sunday, June 24, 2018

MISinformation: Why it's Exhausting to be a Woman in Tech/CS

Saturday, June 23, 2018

How Much Money Do You Save by Cooking at Home?

Bank of England warns on UK exposure to China’s credit boom | Financial Times

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Daily Kos Elections releases initial House race ratings for 2018

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

It Can Happen Here | by Cass R. Sunstein | The New York Review of Books

Doug Jones Thinks He’s Supposed to Be Here | FiveThirtyEight

SoftBank: inside the ‘Wild West’ $100bn fund shaking up the tech world | Financial Times

What could possibly go wrong? Count the ways.

SoftBank: inside the ‘Wild West’ $100bn fund shaking up the tech world | Financial Times

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Zero Tolerance at the Mexican Border - Quillette

Saturday, June 16, 2018

A Macy’s Goes From Mall Mainstay to Homeless Shelter - The New York Times

Friday, June 15, 2018

The SHSAT Controversy in New York's Public High Schools - The Atlantic

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Citi Wants Analysts to Add Python to List of Languages on Resume - Bloomberg

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Why Do Investors Focus on the Wrong Things? | Behavioural Investment

Monday, June 11, 2018

University Boardrooms Need Reform - WSJ

Near-Collapse of ZTE May Be China’s Sputnik Moment - The New York Times

Saturday, June 09, 2018

Restaurateur Nat Lee-Joe on Tokyo

Sayaka Murata: ‘My parents don’t want to read my books’

Friday, June 08, 2018

‘Go Where the Money Isn’t’ and More Advice From Endowment Chiefs - Bloomberg

Don’��t Eat Before Reading This | The New Yorker

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button - Bloomberg

Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Hal Varian: Google's chief economist thinks the world needs more data scientists — Quartz

Opinion | Top Colleges Are Cheaper Than You Think (Unless You’re Rich) - The New York Times

Monday, June 04, 2018

The Man Who Made CDS Interesting - Bloomberg

Does Private Equity Deserve More Scrutiny?

Seeing Theory - Frequentist Inference

Friday, June 01, 2018

Multimedia | Video: Stanley Nelson's documentary - Access to public spaces in America | Starbucks Newsroom

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

The world’s progress brings new challenges

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Power Causes Brain Damage - The Atlantic

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Algos all go? - The Big Picture

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Lessons from Tim Cook’s commencement speech

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

The Birth of the New American Aristocracy - The Atlantic

Monday, May 14, 2018

The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves

Sunday, May 13, 2018

An Honor Code for Life - The Big Picture

A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America | Society | The Guardian

Saturday, May 12, 2018

xkcd: Research Areas by Size and Countedness

Friday, May 11, 2018

When Intelligence Fails Miserably

What Keeps Xi Jinping Awake at Night - The New York Times

Sunday, May 06, 2018

N.B.A. Playoffs: LeBron James Beats Raptors at the Buzzer - The New York Times

Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Computer engineers now make up a quarter of Goldman Sachs' workforce

‘No More Hope’: The Work of a Photojournalist Killed in Kabul - The New York Times

Monday, April 30, 2018

Who Is John Galt? Ken Moelis Has 1,000,000,000 Answers - Bloomberg

Photos from Shah Marai, a Photojournalist Who Was Killed Today in Afghanistan - The Atlantic

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Cyclists say chilling report on hit-and-run crashes points up need to redesign streets for safety - The Washington Post

A Devastating, Overdue National Memorial to Lynching Victims | The New Yorker

MISinformation: Thank You -- On Leadership

Saturday, April 28, 2018

2017 Founders’ Letter - Investor Relations - Alphabet

Friday, April 27, 2018

Andrew Sullivan: Will There Always Be an England?

Thursday, April 26, 2018

How a Genealogy Site Led to the Front Door of the Golden State Killer Suspect - The New York Times

Office of the Governor | Building a Stronger and Fairer New Jersey: An Address by Governor Murphy Marking 100 Days in Office

Opinion | At This Memorial, the Monuments Bleed - The New York Times

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Opinion | Adapting to American Decline - The New York Times

What if the Future is Better Than We Think?

The symphony orchestra and the Industrial Revolution - Marginal REVOLUTION

Saturday, April 21, 2018

These whales will be extinct in 25 years, scientists say — unless we act now to save them - The Washington Post

Friday, April 20, 2018

Inside Rex Tillerson’s Ouster | The New Yorker

The Future of Elite Schools, Continued - The Atlantic

Donald Trump should avoid a North Korean summit

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Amazon Shareholder letter

A must read.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Amazon_Shareholder_Letter.pdf

The Grumpy Economist: Buybacks redux

Google's New AI Head Is So Smart He Doesn't Need AI | WIRED

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong - The Verge

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

I am a graduate analyst — how do I impress my employer?

Monday, April 16, 2018

How Doug Band drove a wedge through the Clinton dynasty | The New Republic

Data science is the big draw in business schools

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Two decades after WWII, Japanese runners ruled the Boston Marathon. A war bride's son recalls the slurs. - The Washington Post

Declaration Descendants | July 4th | Ancestry - YouTube

Private Equity: Overvalued and Overrated? - American Affairs Journal

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Hacking Hedonic Adaptation to Get Way More For Your Money

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

The Failure of the Globalist Fantasy

Thursday, March 29, 2018

How The World Has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Banks Are Worried About Margin Loans - Bloomberg

Margin loans are like selling puts.

Banks Are Worried About Margin Loans - Bloomberg

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Inside The Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns | GQ

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. HELLER

Sometimes This Sucks

An optimal strategy does not exist.

Sometimes This Sucks

Van Gogh Never Visited Japan, but He Saw It Everywhere - The New York Times

Monday, March 26, 2018

Linda Brown, Symbol of Landmark Desegregation Case, Dies - The New York Times

The man who coined the Dunning–Kruger effect says we're most gullible to ourselves — Quartz

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Saturday, March 24, 2018

BlackRock bets on algorithms to beat the fund managers

Friday, March 23, 2018

Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall – Mother Jones

Facebook had a closer relationship than it disclosed with the academic it called a liar - The Washington Post

Too Convenient to Fail - Bloomberg

Interesting use of Edgar here.

Too Convenient to Fail - Bloomberg

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer

Should we worry about Facebook rigging elections? – Trishank Karthik – Medium

Facebook's Cambridge Analytica Scandal Is Part of a Bigger Problem - The Atlantic

A Cozy Jazz Club, if You Can Find It - The New York Times

On the Road With the World’s Greatest Hitchhiker - The New York Times

Thursday, March 22, 2018

At Mars, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts, Other Brainiacs and Me - The New York Times

How Democracy Can Survive Big Data - The New York Times

My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic

How and Why Positive Activities Can Make You Happier - Behavioral Scientist

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Taibbi: The Legacy of the Iraq War - Rolling Stone

Dumb beats Smart - why choosing passive is the smarter choice

The Last Days of Whitney Tilson's Kase Capital | Institutional Investor

Why I Stay in Gaza - The New York Times

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Exposed: Undercover secrets of Trump’s data firm – Channel 4 News

Part II

Exposed: Undercover secrets of Trump’s data firm – Channel 4 News

Six Kinds of Career Allies: Building a Personal Board of Directors | CFA Institute Enterprising Investor

What Your Fund Management Job Will Look Like in a Decade - Bloomberg

Why are Money Managers Paid so Much? - Pragmatic Capitalism

No Hesitations: Big Data and Economic Nowcasting

Magic, maths and money: The Golden Rule

'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine | News | The Guardian

Explaining Trades Is More Profitable Than Doing Them - Bloomberg

The Genial Voyeurism of the Japanese Reality Show “Terrace House” | The New Yorker

5 Rules to Help Avoid Investing Disaster - Bloomberg

Monday, March 19, 2018

Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians – Channel 4 News

The Myths of Data-Driven Campaigning: Political Communication: Vol 34, No 4

Both Facebook And Cambridge Analytica Threatened To Sue Journalists Over Stories On CA's Use Of Facebook Data | Techdirt

Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election | US news | The Guardian

From a $126 Million Bonus to Jail: The Fall of a Star Trader - Bloomberg

Sunday, March 18, 2018

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower | News | The Guardian

I went to prison for disclosing the CIA’s torture. Gina Haspel helped cover it up. - The Washington Post

Friday, March 16, 2018

Some Perspective on Investing Advice

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Tim Harford — Article — Books for people who love numbers

Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Mind Roamed the Cosmos - The New York Times

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything – Ryan Holiday – Medium

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

A Princeton sociologist spent 8 years asking rural Americans why they’re so pissed off - Vox

Donald Trump's cabinet full of trouble -�Axios

Monday, March 12, 2018

How ‘trade’ became a dirty word - The Washington Post

Human Landscapes of Germany - The Atlantic

File:World War I battle fronts of Europe overlaid over a map of the United States.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Sunday, March 11, 2018

The Nativist Didn't Return. He Was Waiting Here All Along

Friday, March 02, 2018

Magic, maths and money: Mathematical Finance

If the Government Takes Gun Research Seriously, What Should It Study? - The New York Times

A new, huge review of gun research has bad news for the NRA - Vox

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can’t Be Recalled - Bloomberg

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Trump’s Facebook advertising advantage, explained - The Washington Post

Warren Buffett's 3 Most Profitable Pieces Of Advice

Sunday, February 25, 2018

The Enlightenment of Steven Pinker – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

China Moves to Let Xi Stay in Power by Abolishing Term Limit - The New York Times

This year's most important news.

China Moves to Let Xi Stay in Power by Abolishing Term Limit - The New York Times

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Bari Weiss, Mirai Nagasu, and the Perpetual Foreigners | GQ

How to get yourself out of a funk

Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated

Peanut allergy therapy scores late-stage trial win, giving hope for treatment

How to Manage Stress Like an Olympic Biathlete - The New York Times

Friday, February 23, 2018

Pando: The War Nerd: Why Sherman was right to burn Atlanta

Andrew Sullivan on the Opioid Epidemic in America

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

A Veteran on the Need to Control Civilian Arms - The Atlantic

“Fuck you, I like guns.” – Engineering, Parenthood, and a Solid Attempt at Adult Status

RIP XIV | Flirting with Models

Monday, February 19, 2018

How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment - POLITICO Magazine

“Black Panther” and the Invention of “Africa” | The New Yorker

Sunday, February 18, 2018

‘An Endless War’: Why 4 U.S. Soldiers Died in a Remote African Desert - The New York Times

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Your Ride to LaGuardia Doesn’t Just Feel Longer, It Is Longer - WSJ

Friday, February 16, 2018

The Agency - The New York Times

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Can the Vix index really be tampered with?

My Twelve Rules for Life – Russ Roberts – Medium

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

The Haunting of Lindsey Jacobellis - The New York Times

Silver is the saddest medal.

The Haunting of Lindsey Jacobellis - The New York Times

The New Wizards of Wall Street - WSJ

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Wall Street Regulator Probes Alleged Manipulation of VIX, a Popular Volatility Gauge - WSJ

What free software is so good you can't believe it's available for free? : AskReddit

How Chloe Kim Won Gold With a Nearly Perfect Score in Halfpipe - The New York Times

VIX Manipulation Costs Investors Billions, Whistle-Blower Says - Bloomberg

10 tough questions we get asked | Bill Gates

Monday, February 12, 2018

Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All | WIRED

Saturday, February 10, 2018

The Catholic Church used to be like Silicon Valley. Can it be again? | America Magazine

The church of Gates.

The Catholic Church used to be like Silicon Valley. Can it be again? | America Magazine

Inverse Volatility Products Almost Worked - Bloomberg

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Kim Jong-un Invites South Korean Leader to North for Summit Meeting - The New York Times

Thursday, February 08, 2018

Mikaela Shiffrin Is Winning a Lot of Slalom Races. But That’s Not Good Enough. - The New York Times

Tim Harford’s guide to statistics in a misleading age

The Grumpy Economist: Stock Gyrations

Wednesday, February 07, 2018

How Two Tiny Volatility Products Helped Fuel Sudden Stock Slump - Bloomberg

Tuesday, February 06, 2018

Quants Embrace Recent Selloff Even as Everyone Blames Them For It - WSJ

People Are Worried About the Stock Market - Bloomberg

Investors Suffer Heavy Losses on Bets Against Volatility - WSJ

A Few Charts And A Few Thoughts

Why One Of The Most Successful Quant Funds Decided To Create Its Own Video Game - Bloomberg

VIX at 38 Is Waterloo for the Beloved Short Volatility Trade - Bloomberg

Here's Who Owned Those Crumbling VIX Notes as of Last Filing - Bloomberg

Monday, February 05, 2018

Sunday, February 04, 2018

Mount Everest Is A Sh*tty Therapist

CrossFit as Church? Examining How We Gather | Harvard Divinity School

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Self-Assessment

Saturday, February 03, 2018

12 Mental Models to Get Smarter in One Infographic

Friday, February 02, 2018

The Robot Revolution: The New Age of Manufacturing - Moving Upstream

Hillbilly elegist JD Vance: ‘The people calling the shots really screwed up’

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Momentum isn't magic – vindicating the hot hand with the mathematics of streaks

The hot hand is back.

(I never had a hot hand ;-()

Momentum isn't magic – vindicating the hot hand with the mathematics of streaks

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

My Personal Moonshot | Mercatus Center

The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing | The New Yorker

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: The Rising Importance of Soft Skills

Megan McArdle's '12 Rules for Life' - Bloomberg

Megan McArdle's '12 Rules for Life' - Bloomberg

Number 10 is a good one.

Big data and public health | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

8 Questions to Ask Someone Other Than “What Do You Do?”

Taibbi: Official State of the Union Drinking Game Rules (Trump Edition) - Rolling Stone

Monday, January 29, 2018

The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker - The New York Times

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Candide Thovex Again Proves He Doesn’t Need Snow to Rip | Teton Gravity Research

The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem - The New York Times

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class - The New York Times

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble - The New York Times

D.E. Shaw, the First Great Quant Hedge Fund

Oxfam 2018

Great study on inequality

https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/bp-reward-work-not-wealth-220118-en.pdf

Stumbling and Mumbling: The Davos non-paradox

Stumbling and Mumbling: The Davos non-paradox:

They are loath to pay a living wage, but they will fund a philharmonic orchestra. They will ban unions, but they will organize a workshop on transparency in government.