Weekend Longform Links

"The Great Unbundling of Venture Capital" http://rdd.me/mvnoafuj via @readability
"Inside the mind of Marc Andreessen" http://rdd.me/q2ywusx1 via @readability
"Thales–The World’s First Option Trader?" http://rdd.me/zcsh8jxx via @readability
Ths stroy of a Drowning country: "Drowning Kiribati" http://rdd.me/hwes8qme via @readability
A profile of an art dealer: "Dealer’s Hand" http://rdd.me/7mtos15o via @readability
"The Science of Hatred" http://rdd.me/d2f7rimt via @readability
New tour offers a taste of Cognac’s traditions - FT.com — www.ft.com http://bit.ly/18tYSfC
Life - "Scandinavian Style" http://rdd.me/qk2sjqn6 via @readability
"How To Waste Time Properly" http://rdd.me/wz4jgexu via @readability
Story of a fashion magazine photo editor: Pixel Perfect — www.newyorker.com http://bit.ly/18tYWvP
"A Beautiful 1928 Letter to 16-Year-Old Jackson Pollock from His Dad" http://rdd.me/fvmtkfie via @readability
"The Strange Secrets of the World’s First Obstetricians" http://rdd.me/vi4i2ief via @readability
"Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies" http://rdd.me/qq03dtbm via @readability

FW: Pensions around the world[graphic]

 

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Sunday Links

You Can’t Take a Bullet for Someone Hollywood-Style, Because Physics | But Not Simpler, Scientific American Blog Net… http://bit.ly/1aQkkZJ 
Most companies lack experience w/emerging digital technologies; only 15% are "Digirati" http://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/embracing-digital-technology/ … pic.twitter.com/J1qKDTTQ9B
Philippe Laffont: Not in Internet Bubble [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/18xAcAS 
Tea with the FT: Yulia Tymoshenko http://bit.ly/18ZdDRT
The complete guide to brushing your teeth at work – Quartz http://bit.ly/18ZcA4E 
The Appeal of Cinnabon Vodka and the Rise of Flavored Vodkas http://bit.ly/18wRVs8 
How To Avoid Getting Sick http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/11/how-to-avoid-getting-sick/ … via @farnamstreet
Chart of the week: the world’s most expensive offices | beyondbrics http://bit.ly/18wKMIe 
Why Is Turkey Cheaper When Demand Is Higher? http://bit.ly/18wKrW5
Is America over soup? http://bit.ly/I7CFYh 
The Fist Bump Manifesto - Health - The Atlantic http://bit.ly/I7BqbI
Americans – why do you keep refrigerating your eggs? http://bit.ly/18wG4KL 
The Wyatt Earp Effect | The Big Picture http://bit.ly/18wEYys

Value Investing Video Links

Tepper Is Bullish On Airlines; Bearish On J.C. Penney, Treasuries http://bit.ly/18wMF7V
Pine River's Kuhn On Progressive Short Call [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/18wMIAx
Nehal Chopra, Tiger Ratan Capital Founder At Robin Hood http://bit.ly/18wO0vq
Alex Sacerdote At Robin Hood On Alibaba Long Case http://bit.ly/18Z7VzA
Stan Druckenmiller Full Bloomberg Interview From Robin Hood http://bit.ly/18wO3au
Larry Robbins: Stocks Wont Dip Until We Get Real Inflation http://bit.ly/18wO52j
Ackman on HLF, FNMA, FMCC, JCP [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/18wO5PA
Mario Gabelli: These Stocks Will Double In Five Years http://bit.ly/18wO4va
Philippe Laffont: Not in Internet Bubble [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/18Z83Pt
HVF CEO: What Is a Disruptive Innovator? http://bit.ly/18wOamq

Weekend Longform Links

"The Vatican’s Secret Life" http://rdd.me/w8bpbkf1  via @readability
The Amazon Whisperer | Fast Company | Business + Innovation http://bit.ly/18UJZ07 
JFK’s Harvard application (with essay) and other school records http://wapo.st/HZzrpF 
Ancient Wisdom For Lifelong Health http://bit.ly/18svhRB 
"The Evolution of Bitchiness" http://rdd.me/qhlffoe1  via @readability
The life of skim milk atlantic
"Lance Armstrong: The Downfall of a Champion" http://rdd.me/8n5jhmgj  via @readability
Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Illustrated http://thisisindexed.com/?p=17681 
"Against Tipping" http://rdd.me/2mcdlokk  via @readability
"The Political Economy of Gettin' Drunk" http://bit.ly/1h8i98Q
They're Watching You at Work — www.theatlantic.com — Readability http://bit.ly/1jubDWO
To Walk the World — ngm.nationalgeographic.com — Readability http://bit.ly/1h8iad2
Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future — medium.com — Readability http://bit.ly/1jubG58
There's a Whole New Way of Killing Cancer — www.esquire.com — Readability http://bit.ly/1h8idFK
Jane McGonigal: Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling? TED[video]
Mohnish Pabrai keynote address : Valuewalk [video]
The Giving Pledge: 60 Minutes Special [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/18KytEw 

FW: More Bubble fears as US stocks break records[infographic]

Source: FT

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FW: Console combat

The battle among video-game machines

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FW: The Ballmer Years

 

Source: WSJ

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Buffet @ powerful women summit 2013

Weekend Links

Excellent reading: Steven Cohen: The Gilded Age revisited - NYT - http://buff.ly/HRPnu4
"Swatch leaves luxury watchmakers in a quandary - Fortune Features" http://rdd.me/0b79zuzu  via @readability
"Master of many trades" http://rdd.me/xbe0gj84  via @readability
How Inbev bush survived prohibition http://bit.ly/1aqkrev 
Why Justin Bieber has no choice but to bang hookers – James Cook – The Kernel http://buff.ly/1hNxmNT
Lifetime appointments don’t make sense anymore. http://buff.ly/1hNxQUe
Discomfort Food: When the Going Gets Tough, Greeks Get Souvlaki http://buff.ly/1hNycKv
The Five Characteristics of Successful Innovators - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic - Harvard Business Review http://buff.ly/HRQKJf
Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won | Technology http://buff.ly/HRRLRs
"Are paper books becoming obsolete in the digital age, or poised to lead a new cultural renaissance?" http://buff.ly/1awPsxn
The Benefits of a 6-Day Water Fast http://buff.ly/18DP50I
The Amazing History Of The To-Do List--And How To Make One That Actually Works | Fast Company | Business + Innovation http://buff.ly/18DShta

Bill Ackman @ Oxford

FW: Race to the top

Ethnic-minority pupils in England are storming ahead IN MUCH of Europe, pupils from many ethnic minorities struggle at school. That used to be true in Britain too—but not any more. Every ethnic-minority group that trails white Britons in GCSE exams, normally taken at age 16, is catching up. Bangladeshis used to perform worse than whites; now they do better. Indians have maintained a huge lead. All this despite the fact that ethnic minorities are poorer than average. Control for that, by looking at pupils who are entitled to free school meals, and all ethnic-minority groups now do well. That is in part because parents are increasingly turning to private tutors. In a survey of 11- to 16-year-olds by the Sutton Trust, an education charity, 45% of Asian children said they received some kind of private tuition compared with 20% of white pupils. See full article.

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FW: The changing income distribution for lawyers (Average is Over)

Feed: Marginal Revolution
Posted on: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:00 AM
Author: Tyler Cowen
Subject: The changing income distribution for lawyers (Average is Over)

 

As of 2010, a graph of starting salaries looks like this: As of 1991, it looked like this: That is from Peter Turchin.  Here is a WSJ article by Ben Casselman on the widening job market gap more generally.

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Retailer sq. footage [graphic]

Via: http://avondaleam.com/

FW: Bringing home the Bacon

The most expensive artworks sold at auction "THREE STUDIES OF LUCIAN FREUD", a 1969 painting by Francis Bacon of his friend and fellow artist, was sold at auction in New York on November 12th for $142.4m. Christie's, the auctioneer, said this was a record. Was it? Yes and no. For one thing, an auction record does not equal an overall record: in 2011 the Qatari royal family paid more than $250m for a Cézanne in a private sale. Secondly, our chart shows that although the Bacon triptych sold for the highest auction price in history, surpassing the $119.9m paid last year for Edvard Munch's "The Scream", it is not the most expensive ever auction sale in real terms (ie, accounting for inflation). That title is still held by Van Gogh's 1890 "Portrait du Docteur Gachet". The $82.5m paid for that painting in 1990 is the equivalent of $148.6m at today's prices, enough to acquire a Bacon and still have change to buy a gallery to hang it in.

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FW: The casualties of the first world war

 

Nightmare On a pole, rotten and foul Squats the conscience of nations, Three children's bones dance around the pole Broken from a young mother's body. A sheep bleats the rhythm bah bah. — By Ernst Toller (1893-1939) Translated from the German by Peter Appelbaum

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Ray Dalio @ Dealbook conference

FW: The Beauty of Mathematics

Feed: The Big Picture
Posted on: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 6:00 AM
Author: Barry Ritholtz
Subject: The Beauty of Mathematics

 

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." —Bertrand Russell  BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS from PARACHUTES.TV on Vimeo.

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Michael Burry on the Financial Crisis