The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
Understanding our biggest tech blind spots (Medium) Do Sociopaths make the best soldiers? (VICE) The Cato Institute’s “Liberty Manifesto” from 1993 (Cato) How VC Mark Suster finds balance (BothSidesOfTheTable) Hackers can control a Jeep remotely (Wired) It is a great time to be a young investor (MaliceForAll) Yahoo is making a play to be a bigger part of “Search” (Quartz) Turning superhumans into billions of dollars (Bloomberg) The FDA is banning Trans fats (TIME) Find your horse and start riding (Richard Koch) Be sure to share your favorite links.
The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
Dan Savage on the double standard expressed in the reaction to the Gawker outing and the Ashley Madison hack (theStranger) Six things that cost our government more than the Pluto mission (Vox) Curbing climate change by turning waste into mushrooms (Medium) Stowaways and the lawless high seas (NYT) Meet Tracy Britt Cool, Warren Buffett’s right-hand woman (CNBC) Interview with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly (GQ) The psychology of telling your kids they can be whatever they want to be (Aeon) Also... apparently AirBnB now has business-class offerings? Be sure to share your favorite links.
The best stuff from all around the web; read, learn and prosper.
Take this quiz for a better understanding of confirmation bias, government policy and why people hate being wrong (NYT) Human beings are not as unique as we think we are - what biologists have learned from observing bonobo monkeys (BBC) Virtual Reality is the porn industry’s $1Bn new frontier (MarketWatch) The ocean is acidifying at an unprecedented rate (Motherboard) Quitting my corporate job f_cked my life up (Medium Blog) The earthquake that could devastate the Northwest United States (New Yorker) Good advice or advice that sounds good? (Jason Zweig) We don’t hire Ivy League law school grads (HuffPo) Legal weed could change the future of sex (Fusion) Gas powered cars are toast (Bloomberg) Be sure to share your favorite links.
Here are some long form reads for you to enjoy on your lazy Saturday
The absolute brilliance of Clickhole explained (Slate) Talib Kweli explains why he left a major record label and the challenges facing modern music artists (Medium) An elaborate medical empire was taken down by one brave oncologist (Detroit News) Life in the Clinton White House as told by the staff that served the family (Politico) Hannibal Buress is much more than one Bill Cosby joke (The Fader) Women cleaning up (literal) shit in Canada (Penguin Random House) The problem of consciousness and the ongoing battle between philosophers and scientists to figure it out (The Guardian) The Rolling Stone and the temptations of narrative journalism (The New Yorker) The internet has the capacity to turn us all into hermits. San Francisco offers a view into what that might look like (Medium) How Warren Buffett profits from poor people in mobile homes (The Center for Public Integrity) Be sure to share your favorite links. The best stuff from all around the web, hope you enjoy.
Everything you ever needed to know about procrastination and the manifestation of your own self-image (Mark Manson) Increasing human longevity could pose major problems in the future. Let’s start preparing now (Politico) VIDEO - F1 Racer goes go karting, speeds from last to first in just 3 laps (Kottke) “Writing a book made me realize how little I know. As I read and researched more and more, the amount that I knew grew, but the amount that I didn’t know grew even faster.” Patrick O’Shaughnessy of Millennial Invest on writing a book and helping millennials invest (Harvest) Sarcopenia, or age-related muscle loss and the catastrophic health problems associated with it, wasn’t even coined until 1988. Meet the folks who have been able to resist it (Men’s Health) The next generation of entrepreneurs includes businesses making over $1M in revenue with no employees (WSJ) The Death of Reddit (Chuq Von Rospach) Five fish on the rise (Quartz) Peter Schiff point of view on markets and the current state of our economy (EuroPacific Capital) Replacing opioid painkillers with marijuana is a good thing (Carpe Diem) Be sure to share your favorite links.
The best stuff from all around the web, hope you enjoy.
The Dark Mountain Manifesto, the perspective of doomsday preppers (Dark Mountain) BUT, Here are 11 charts showing that the world is getting better (Vox) Insight and wisdom from the ageless Paul McCartney (Esquire) How to find the right remote work setup for you (thenextweb) What is the right amount of sex? It’s different for everyone (NYT) More and more folks are going gluten-free, here’s why (BBC) Confessions from a political speechwriter “One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck” (Washington Post) What it is actually like to use a Windows Phone (Re/Code) The FBI and Anonymous, traditionally enemies, are working together to fight ISIS (BlackSphere) The 37 best websites for learning something new (Medium) Some simple rules to live by (The Big Picture) Be sure to share your favorite links.
The best stuff from all around the web, hope you enjoy.
"I think most scientists must be burying overt recognition of the awful truths of climate change in a protective layer of denial.” The sober perspective of of a climatologist (Esquire) 3-D printing has saved the lives of three children (CBS News) US government’s misrepresentations regarding school-building in Afghanistan (BuzzFeed) Solar power is making the transition from luxury to blue collar (Slate) Extreme sports athletes and entrepreneurs brains work the same way (TechCrunch) VIDEO - What happened when Portugal decriminalized drugs? (The Economist) Effects of the San Francisco minimum wage hike on small businesses (National Review) A foraging adventure in Northern California (NYT) Want your own Western PA foraging adventure? Contact foraging maestro Adam Haritan Be sure to share your favorite links. Warning; This is perhaps the most controversial Content Curator yet. Please approach with an open mind.
“A choice of more leisure and less work is not a societal problem.” Women’s earnings are the product of rational choice, not discrimination (E21) Why Ryan Shell turned down $250,000 on Shark Tank (Ryan Shell) Is America ready for the bidet invasion? (Good) VIDEO - Pamela Ronald makes the case FOR genetically modifying our food (TED) Socially responsible investing is a tricky proposition (Motley Fool) The enabler of “Too Big To Jail”, Eric Holder, is back to protecting Wall Street interests (Rolling Stone) You should start morning journaling. Here’s how (FourHourWorkWeek) VIDEO - The “Billions” trailer looks pretty sweet (YouTube) Confessions of a seduction addict (NYT) Are organic foods really any healthier? The jury is still out (Vox) Be sure to share your favorite links. The best stuff I found on the web this weekend, hope you enjoy. Be sure to share your favorite links.
America’s worst racists don’t live where you think they do (Politico) Google and the evolution of search (Re/Code) Solutions for Greece leaving the Euro (Vox) Older athletes have surprisingly low “fitness ages” (NYT) and Everyone ages at different rate, leading to unique "biological ages" (The Guardian) What angel investors look for when deciding whom to fund (MergeLane) Marijuana growers are reshaping the produce industry (California Sunday) VIDEO - Stephen Colbert is prepared for Armageddon (YouTube) 8 ways to earn a living while you travel abroad (Refine the Mind) VIDEO - “Attention is the asset” Gary Vaynerchuk drops 25 minutes of knowledge at Internet Week New York Keynote (YouTube) |
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