Video Lecture: Antifragility

Monday Links: Some longer reads

• What’s Inside America’s Banks? - Frank Partnoy and Jesse Eisinger-The Atlantic http://bit.ly/XcLIcG 
• A Million First Dates - Dan Slater-The Atlantic http://bit.ly/UpSxHa 
• Snowboarding in Downtown Montreal After a Record-Breaking Snowfall - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg-The Atlantichttp://bit.ly/Sen4dT [video]
• How to think like Sherlock Holmes: See and observe to fight attention blindness; be happier. - Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/Uq6F32 
• How a Simple Smartphone Can Turn Your Car, Home, or Medical Device into a Deadly Weapon | Vanity Fair http://bit.ly/Uhl7vX 
• Joshua Lang - Awakening-The Atlantic http://bit.ly/Se092o  
• Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight diseasehttp://on.ted.com/mKsv  #TED
• America's Real Criminal Element: Lead | Mother Jones http://bit.ly/TKY4YC 
• The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist - Businessweekhttp://bit.ly/Ums7pN 
• Dish Network, the Meanest Company in America - Businessweekhttp://bit.ly/ZkI5pa 
• Five MIT Students Have Solved A Universally Annoying Problem - Business Insider http://bit.ly/X6gDqV 
• Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Film Due in April http://on.wsj.com/S7ct4r via @WSJ

Fiscal cliff in one chart

Via: WPO

Links

• Curate, Ecosystem, Glocal, Jeah, Quinoa, YOLO and more.... an A-to-Z guide to 2012's worst words: http://goo.gl/P0Tyj  #nicelist
• Morning Advantage: The Business of Guns http://s.hbr.org/10nvS3j 
• If you duck from hard decisions in business, it’s a sure sign you’re about to go down the drain. -@Bill_George http://flip.it/5DNTy 
• Morning Advantage: A Labor Lesson From Santa http://s.hbr.org/TrJHZb 
• "powerful people have few real friends but many superficial relationships" http://bit.ly/WWHU31  @mitsmr [doesn't have to be]
• @sfj: “the right to "display" is a distinct and limited concept in copyright law.” @verge on @instagram faking you out. http://flip.it/tqe1Z 
• RT @MensHealthMag: The upside to being rejected: http://flip.it/79Xuc Tips from @SamanthaBarks.
• Starbucks baristas jump into microlobbying, urge coffee drinkers in D.C. to 'come together' http://theatln.tc/VejYSK 
• Butter Sculptures http://flip.it/BT8Ea 
• RT @mymodernmet: Witness the beautiful life and death of 10,000 roses. http://flip.it/uDk3V 
• RT @globeandmail: 12 questions to ask yourself about your career to get a jump on the year ahead: http://flip.it/pt9hC 
• RT @nprbusiness: Literary Iceland Revels In Its Annual 'Christmas Book Flood' http://flip.it/J3RMk 
• RT @quartznews: Sahara Group played Monopoly with real money, and now owes its investors $5 billion http://flip.it/syGIn 
• RT @tedcoine: How To Be Happy. http://flip.it/YHBAl  via @DanWaldo
• A merger arb writes to Santa - Breakingviews http://reut.rs/ZvpQOP 
• Financial crime: The king of con-men | The Economist http://j.mp/W2Brx0 
• Big Beer, A Moral Market, and Innovation http://s.hbr.org/10iE44L 
• True professionals don't fear amateurshttp://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/12/true-professionals-dont-fear-amateurs.html …

Syria's death toll[infographic]

 

Via: Reuters

Thursday Links

• #Data #visualisation in National Geographic circa 1900, by@juanvelasco http://econ.st/TuC8R8 ...
• RT @latimesbiz: Which airline has the rudest employees? A survey.http://flip.it/o8xCw 
• Why Society Might Actually Need Psychopaths http://read.bi/YCdTkr 
• RT @Forbes: 13 things overachievers do: http://flip.it/1tfLE 
• RT @ThisIsSethsBlog: Seth's Blog: Sooner or later http://flip.it/Sv4h4 
• BBC News - Kinder children are more popular http://flip.it/HXYRz 
• RT @paulwsj: Rape Victim's Body Returns for Delhi Cremation -http://flip.it/oM4ul  http://flip.it/nfNRF  via @WSJ
• Philanthropy: a guide http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/12/25/philanthropy-youre-doing-it-wrong/ …
• History of the chicken nugget http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2012/12/robert_c_baker_the_man_who_invented_chicken_nuggets.single.html …
•  Gangnam Style - OPERA STYLE http://youtu.be/8ieexj4jLyg 
• The 4 most annoying words of 2012 . . . http://reut.rs/YljHPe  via @reuters
• Another popular link from September? Prof. Hofmann's post on#socialmedia being more addictive than sex: http://ow.ly/ggQbL 
• Simon Beck: Trampled Snow Art http://dlvr.it/2jVZS0  $$
• Pearson agrees to buy 5 percent stake in Barnes & Noble Nook unit | http://bloom.bg/12LotKK 
• Gregory Buck on the wondrous Mathematics of #winter :http://nyr.kr/RlDmzR 
• What Coke doesn't want you to know about its mascothttp://huff.to/YqrTxE 
• An absolute MUST-READ for all futurists: 16 sci-fi things that became reality in 2012!! http://io9.com/5971328/the-most-futuristic-predictions-that-came-true-in-2012 …
• Mayor Bloomberg: New York's Murder Rate Is The Lowest It's Been In 50 Years http://read.bi/UqQX8G 
• I propose we stop subsidizing the manufacture of gunshttp://bit.ly/W5x9Vq 

Links: Catching up on some readings

• RT @Forbes: The mystery monk who's making billions with Five Hour Energy. http://flip.it/nXGwO  #ForbesGreatestHits
• Just terrible - Victim of Fatal Subway Push Is Given a Fond Farewell - http://NYTimes.com  http://flip.it/TZREX 
• How to live to a ripe old age: http://on.natgeo.com/WKDecw  (via@NatGeo)
• RT @avinash: Sodoku clues, gay footballer probabilities, Brazil pensioners,Higgs & more: 
• *The numbers of the year 2012*http://flip.it/aqe5l 
• The 20 Most Extraordinary Hotel Rooms in the World http://flip.it/okU7h 
• In 2012 I Learned That… | The Reformed Broker http://flip.it/M23MD 
• RT @NBCNewsPictures: Revelers plunge into icy waters to celebrate New Year http://flip.it/oFoNF  via @NBCNewsPictures
• The 25 Most Beautiful Public Libraries in the World http://flip.it/2L7Ph 
• RT @ThisIsSethsBlog: Seth's Blog: Do you remember? http://flip.it/p9syg 
• RT @HarvardBiz: Instead of Making Resolutions, Dream http://flip.it/f4Mf6 
• RT @ECONdailycharts: Focus: Initial public offerings in 2012http://flip.it/JLnnL 
• Vatican City, The Holy State http://fp.mu/Kn9Aj8 
• Get a bird's-eye view of the New Year's Eve ball in Times Squarehttp://on.today.com/130tGh7 
• RT @nytimesbusiness: Bucks Blog: The Most Popular Restaurants (on Expense Reports) of 2012 http://flip.it/kBSJm 
• RT @FastCoDesign: 10 Of The Year’s Best Designs For Social Good http://flip.it/DIoXa 
• Chart: The rise of solar energy http://econ.st/Wggteu 
• RT @TheAtlanticWire: All of 2012 in One 4-Minute Videohttp://flip.it/80Zas 
• Our most viewed story of 2012: what's the best language to learn, by Robert @lanegreene (who speaks nine) http://bit.ly/zVwNii 
• The 10 Worst Performing Stock Markets In The World by @LJKawahttp://read.bi/VmR6s0 
• RT @clusterstock: 16 Celebrities Who Started Their Careers In Finance http://flip.it/XvgQ9 
• RT @TheAtlantic: Wrapper's delight: A brief history of wrapping paper http://flip.it/KxFSD 
• RT @mymodernmet: Who doesn't love a good illusion? Here's our top 10 from 2012. http://flip.it/yYu15 
• The top 10 lessons Steve Jobs taught us http://bit.ly/10uH6TO #ForbesGreatestHits

Caffeine addicts compendium

Via: popchart

Weekend Links

• Hahaha = jajaja, and other ways to laugh online in different languages: http://flip.it/yWUzW #justwhatyouneed
• Apple stores: a digital layout http://flip.it/Z6uP9 
• Check out these surprises in the 10 Most Read/Viewed articles in@WSJ in 2012: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324461604578193491263158594.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories …
• RT @TeresaAmabile: Gallup study reveals reasons for voluntary#employee #turnover. http://flip.it/kM5En via @GallupJournal #Happines
• PSY | Full Address | Oxford Union: http://youtu.be/2f99cTgT5mg via
• ‘Tis four days before Christmas | The Big Picture http://bit.ly/UiLbXD 
• Meet The Entrepreneur Behind The Apocalypse's Must-Have Accessory http://bit.ly/R7KHDe 
• Fractals, Other Mathematical Visions Reside on The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot [Video]: Scientific American http://bit.ly/UiajxH 
• Don Yacktman: A fund manager's faith produces results - Term Sheet http://bit.ly/VUuHkE 
• Dorie Clark, “If you want to have an impact, you might as well be the one setting the agenda by blogging your ideas.” (HBR)
• his is not a profile of Nassim Taleb. (The Chronicle via Arts & Letters Daily)
• A profile of Abby Johnson, the head of Fidelity Investments. (Businessweek)
• Why your kid is a picky eater. (Slate)

Sunday Movie: Passive Investing