Category: Weekly Link Roundup

This week’s greatest hits:

• “What Happens When You Put 2,000 Nerds on a Boat?” – John Schwartz | The New York Times (May 6, 2019)
• “The a16z Pitch Room: Sandbox VR” – Steve Zhao | Andreessen Horowitz (May 3, 2019)
• “Bit Flip” | Radiolab (May 8, 2019)
• “Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 Anthem – Right Where I’m Supposed To Be” | YouTube (Mar 21, 2019)
• “Stephen Curry Has a Popcorn Problem” – Marc Stein | The New York Times (Apr 12, 2019)

Good stuff from this week!

• “The fallout the Avengers didn’t see” – codyswann | Reddit (Apr 27, 2019)
• The Mother of Dragons deigns to see you now (May 10, 2019)
• “30 Days Timelapse at Sea” – JeffHK | Youtube (Sep 9, 2017)
• “Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds” – Elizabeth Kolbert | The New Yorker (Feb 19, 2017)
• “Our Incel Problem” – Zack Beauchamp | Vox’s The Weeds (Apr 30, 2019)

This week in review:

• “Bridgewater, RenTech Make $13 Billion in a Grim Year for Hedge Funds” | Bloomberg (Jan 27, 2019)
• “Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater cements spot as top performing hedge fund of all time” | Marketplace (Jan 29, 2019)
  • “If you’re worried when the stock market goes down and happy when it goes up, then you’re doing it wrong.”
• “CEO Made $357 Million From Small Businesses, $3.50 at a Time” | Bloomberg (Jan 31, 2019)
  • This is a gross example of the dark underbelly of capitalism.
• “Hedge Fund RenTech Created the Ultimate, Tax-Free IRA Account for Employees” | Bloomberg (Feb 1, 2019)
  • This is an example of how you can succeed in a capitalistic system if you know all of its rules.  Victory goes to the knowledgeable.

Items that caught my fancy this week!

• “Angular… It’s You, Not Me” – Dan Ward | Medium (Nov 30, 2017)
• “How and why I redesign my portfolio every year” – Shawn Park | Medium (Sep 11, 2018)

Another day in the life!  Here are interesting items I stumbled upon this week:

• “Things You Learn After 1 Year of Day Trading for a Living” – Andrew Kreimer | Medium (May 19, 2018)
• “Hedge fund all-star David Einhorn posts his worst year ever, losing 34% in 2018” | CNBC (Jan 2, 2019)

Another week!

• “On Writing” – J.K. Rowling (Jan 6, 2019)
• “Author Incomes: Not Great, Now or Then” – John Scalzi | Whatever (Jan 7, 2019)
• “In China, Elon Musk Felt the Love That Was Missing at Home” | Bloomberg (Jan 11, 2019)

Another day in the life!

Here are items that caught my attention this week.  (Props as usual to the excellent John Scalzi– his Twitter account and blog are absolute gems to follow!)

• “I Won’t Say (I’m in Love)” – Hercules | YouTube
• “OK” – Robin Schulz (feat. James Blunt) | YouTube
• ハイスコアガール (Hi Score Girl) | Netflix
• “My Secret to Marital Bliss Is Refusing to Share My Money” – Nell Beram | New York Magazine (Jan 3, 2019)

Here are items that caught my attention this week:

• “君をのせて　サラ・オレイン” — Sarah Àlainn | YouTube
• “Heaven is a Place on Earth” — Belinda Carlisle | YouTube
• “Halo” (Cover) — Mark Vincent | YouTube
• “Tunnels” — The Boring Company | YouTube
• “The Simple Solution to Traffic” — CGP Grey | YouTube
• “Why It’s Hard to Escape Amazon’s Long Reach” | Wired (Dec 23, 2018)
• “As a grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions.” | Washington Post (Dec 28, 2018)