August 13, 2023
BEN ERSING
If you only have 5 minutes this week, watch this video where Warren Buffet explains his thinking about why obsessing too much over valuation isn’t a good idea.
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Entrepreneurial Careers & The Future of Work
- HBR – What to Ask Yourself Before a Career Pivot
- HBR – How to Make a Career Pivot in the Latter Half of Your Career
- Chief Executive – Emotional Intelligence in an AI World
- Business Insider – The death of hobbies
- The Logan Bartlett Show – Fundraising Advice from 5 Unicorn Founders
Macroeconomics & Innovation History
- Asia Markets – China economy threat of bankruptcies
- Reuters – Moody’s downgrades US banks, warns of possible cuts to others
- Hidden Forces – The Fourth Turning is Here: Our Great National Challenge
- Dallas Fed (2007) – US Economy on Track for Soft Landing
Alternative Investments & Wealth Management
- Warren Buffet – Market Valuations Don’t Matter
- Crunchbase – Are ‘Platform’ Teams the Key to VC Success in Downturns?
Global Real Estate, Hospitality & Travel
Global Health & Wellness
- Discover – The Next Human Genome Challenge
- Scientific American – Electric Bandages Heal Wounds that Won’t Close
- Scientific American – How Old can Humans’ Get?
- Science News – Human embryo replicas have gotten more complex
Transformative Technologies
- Data Driven Investor – Distributed AI, Cognitive Architectures, Brain-Computer Interfaces & Future of Society
- MIT Technology Review – What’s Next for China’s Digital Currency?
STEM: Expand Your Horizons
- Reuters – US Scientists Repeat Fusion Ignition Breakthrough for 2nd Time
- Popular Mechanics – Scientists are Frighteningly Close to Achieving Synthetic Biological Intelligence
- Scientific American – 4 Stages of Conspiracy Theory Escalation on Social Media
- Cornell University – An Introduction to Graph Theory
- Popular Mechanics – Scientists Say They Built a Particle that Can Remember its Own History
On Being Human
- Biologos – Oppenheimer: The Dilemma of Scientific Power
- Business Insider – My 10-year-old spends up to 5 hours / week learning how to code
- The Michael Shermer Show – Why We Get Fooled, with Christopher Chabris
- Simon Sinek – We Can’t Be High Performers on Our Own