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Charlie Munger Comments and the Art of Stock Picking

2015.05.09 – 00:10

Charlie Munger Comments and the Art of Stock Picking “Any damn fool can see that a horse carrying a light weight with a wonderful win rate and a good post position, etc., etc. is way more likely to win than a horse with a terrible record and extra weight and so on and so on. […]

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Join the Engineering Leisure Class

2015.05.08 – 16:05

Join the Engineering Leisure Class “Engineers earn more money than we need, and the world is full of interesting problems that don’t promise a financial return. Why are the overwhelming majority of us still working for a paycheck?”

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Notes from the Field: The Will to #Want by Chris King

2015.05.07 – 22:04

Notes from the Field: The Will to #Want by Chris King from: May 7, 2015 at 09:41PM

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Tweet by lschmeiser

2015.05.06 – 12:10

Personal observation: More I hear about the lack of time/geographic boundaries on working, more I wonder about self-imposed boundaries. — Lisa Schmeiser (@lschmeiser) May 6, 2015 via https://twitter.com/lschmeiser

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In Which I Critique Your Story (That I Haven’t Read) « terribleminds: chuck wendig

2015.05.06 – 00:40

In Which I Critique Your Story (That I Haven’t Read) « terribleminds: chuck wendig “But here’s what happens: your story has too straight a line. You have robbed your tale of tension. You have undercut the conflict. You have urinated in the mouth of urgency. And what results is this kind of gutless, gormless narrative. […]

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Tweet by KVanValkenburg

2015.05.05 – 11:36

Read this powerful Wright Thompson story on Ted Williams, who came from damaged people & left behind damaged people. http://t.co/6grPvIgXhX — Kevin Van Valkenburg (@KVanValkenburg) May 5, 2015 via https://twitter.com/KVanValkenburg

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I miss not being scared.

2015.05.05 – 00:25

I miss not being scared. danah boyd: “Wary of this frame, I started studying the culture of fear, watching as parents exhibited fear of their children doing the same things that they once did, convinced that everything today is so much worse than it was when they were young or that the consequences would be […]

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The Clock Didn’t Start with the Riots

2015.04.30 – 13:24

The Clock Didn’t Start with the Riots from: April 30, 2015 at 01:22PM

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Reading David Brooks on Character

2015.04.30 – 13:24

Reading David Brooks on Character from: April 30, 2015 at 01:13PM

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What’s Wrong with Keynesian Economics?

2015.04.29 – 11:55

What’s Wrong with Keynesian Economics? from: April 29, 2015 at 11:48AM

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Beyond college rankings

2015.04.29 – 11:48

Beyond college rankings A value-added approach to assessing two- and four-year schools by Brookings Institution

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The Enlightenment Trap

2015.04.29 – 09:57

The Enlightenment Trap “Enlightenment, if it exists, may be a goal worth striving for, but it is not worth achieving. While we may never understand the ultimate clockwork that makes the universe work — whether it is the law of karma or grace from a benevolent God — one thing that we do know is that people who claim […]

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Tweet by baseballpro

2015.04.29 – 07:29

Introducing Deserved Run Average (DRA) — And All Its Friends – by @bachlaw, @harrypav, and @dturkenk (Free) http://t.co/4oJ3DeclTp — Baseball Prospectus (@baseballpro) April 29, 2015 via https://twitter.com/baseballpro

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Tweet by TheAtlantic

2015.04.28 – 19:12

How wealth in childhood shapes personality later in life http://t.co/rUdNxYdl3J pic.twitter.com/Ha54db9xqQ — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 28, 2015 via https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic

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Nonviolence as Compliance

2015.04.28 – 17:44

Nonviolence as Compliance from: April 28, 2015 at 05:21PM

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What comes after religion?

2015.04.28 – 17:18

What comes after religion? from: April 28, 2015 at 05:03PM

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The Myth of Police Reform

2015.04.28 – 15:58

The Myth of Police Reform from: April 28, 2015 at 03:44PM

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David Simon: ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show’

2015.04.28 – 14:48

David Simon: ‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show’ “The last job of capitalism – having won all the battles against labour, having acquired the ultimate authority, almost the ultimate moral authority over what’s a good idea or what’s not, or what’s valued and what’s not – the last journey for […]

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The Backwards Brain Bicycle – Smarter Every Day 133

2015.04.28 – 14:35

The Backwards Brain Bicycle – Smarter Every Day 133 April 28, 2015 at 02:31PM

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Tweet by euqubud

2015.04.28 – 10:08

I wrote a letter to my daughter about her day yesterday: http://t.co/YExHHzWmBf — Patrick Dubuque (@euqubud) April 28, 2015 via https://twitter.com/euqubud

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