January 2012
10 posts
The Information Diet | Tools for going on an... →
Going on an information diet? Here’s a list of tools to help you get started.
“This is short list of things that helped me and might help you too.”
– prog21: Recovering From a Computer Science Education
“engineer and designer need to party more… together.”
– Rands In Repose: A Design Primer for Engineers
“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Mat Honan — Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter (via minimalmac)
“Getting an $80 Kindle 4 and pairing it with an Instapaper Subscription will...”
– Instapaper on the Kindle - David Smith
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AaronMahnke: Frictionless Writing →
aaronmahnke:
I’m big on the idea of removing “friction” from my life. Friction, if you haven’t heard me talk about it before, is anything that gets in the way of, or prevents us from reaching, a goal.
This writing advice can be applied to any field.
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Seth's Blog: The first thing you do when you sit... →
your goal is to be the first thing people do when they start their day.
You mean we shouldn’t spend the first 4 hours of our day mindlessly checking Facebook/Twitter/Email/Blogs?
Darn!
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“I only count the number of hours I work a week when I want those hours to be...”
– Twitter / @rands: I only count the number of …
So true.
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A Year in Reading — and Scribbling - Interactive... →
This is how books should be read.
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“I prefer conviction driven, not calendar focused moves.”
– The Cotton Candy Rally | The Big Picture
December 2011
29 posts
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“So how do you break the power of consumption? By creating your own things.”
– The Dangerous Effects of Reading | Certain Extent
“It should be clear that among the causes of the recent financial crisis was an...”
– Financial Reform: Unfinished Business by Paul Volcker | The New York Review of Books
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“That’s an odd feeling. A retail store trusts its customers. It’s not worried...”
– It Feels Like Trust—The Apple Store App And Self Checkout
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...”
– How to Mark a Book - By Mortimer J. Adler
“I think that it’s important to have one drawer that’s totally organized with all...”
– Steve Leveen: A Tabula Rasa Is Peace of Mind :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
“In an environment where “average is over,” they go on, everybody has...”
– Average Is Over. What’s Your Extra? - Bill Taylor - Harvard Business Review
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“The truth is, it’s OK to curate your life.”
– Simplicity - Matt Gemmell
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December Is the Cruelest Month…For the VIX →
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Unsubscribe - Altucher Confidential →
“Nietzsche famously said “What does not kill me makes me stronger.”...”
– Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: Have We Avoided A Recession? - December 4, 2011
The Long Case For P.F. Chang's China Bistro -... →
“The death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, is upsetting; Mr. Jobs will be...”
– Apple: A value stock? | Main Section
“The net total? As of November 10, 2011, it was $29,616.4 billion dollars — (or...”
– Bailout Total: $29.616 Trillion Dollars | The Big Picture
10 Friday AM Reads | The Big Picture →
Sometimes Things Just Keep Getting Worse Altucher... →
CFTC Award for Excellence in Regulatory... →
“Money is hard. You have to work for it.”
– Everything is Too Hard For Me Altucher Confidential
The Eurozone as illustrated by Andrew Rae | The... →
Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will... →
“Failure by European leaders at their summit this week to fix the fatal flaw in...”
– Time of reckoning for the euro zone - Yahoo! Finance
“India’s biggest developers are failing to rein in record debt as borrowing costs...”
– Failure to Cut Record Debt Pushes Developer Yields Above 20%: India Credit - Bloomberg
“Rio Tinto Group (RIO), the world’s third- largest mining company, said metal...”
– Rio Expects Commodity Price Swings as Markets Consider Economic Prospects - Bloomberg
“The key takeaway is that sales improved over last year consistent with the first...”
– Beware the Black Friday Retail Hype | The Big Picture
“Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts...”
– Cowen on the European Crisis | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The CME Group on Wednesday fought back against criticism it has not done enough...”
– CME defends handling of MF Global collapse - Yahoo! News
CME in talks to enter China derivatives market →
CME Group Inc., operator of the world’s leading energy, grains and precious metals markets, is in talks with China’s securities regulator to enter the mainland’s financial derivatives market, the official China Daily reported on Thursday.
Zynga May Be Biggest IPO Since Google - Video -... →
October 2011
1 post
“The absolute best, surefire way to make a good living is to help someone else...”
– ASK JAMES: ADULTERY, DECISION MAKING, INTERVIEW ANXIETY, and LIFE DEFINITION Altucher Confidential
July 2011
1 post
My Summer Reading List, and Other Ways I’ve Ruined... →
January 2011
1 post
“Yet what do so many people do: feel the need to accumulate more information and...”
– Information or Application | BodyRecomposition - The Home of Lyle McDonald (via Instapaper)
December 2010
3 posts
“Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, once remarked that he looked forward to...”
– Googlethink - Magazine - The Atlantic
“A book (as opposed to an e-book) preserves the ideas therein in the form of an...”
– The Book Bench: Under Cover: Peter Mendelsund and “The Snowman” : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)
October 2010
2 posts
“Concentrating on a single task for an extended period of time—as is required...”
– The Millions : Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains
“What I’ve noticed, as a technical analyst, is that the only time this year...”
– The Looming Something - Slope Of Hope with Tim Knight
September 2010
4 posts
“Because, in the absence of caring, you’ll never focus on anything more than your...”
– First, care. | 43 Folders
“The bots sketch out odd patterns with their orders, leaving patterns in the data...”
– Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
“An elevated threshold for psychological pain and discomfort also counts as a...”
– Mercenary Trader » Four Lessons from Druckenmiller (via Instapaper)