Jack Dorsey: The Innovator

Twitter's Jack Dorsey on 60 Minutes: When Jack Dorsey invented Twitter, he changed the way we communicate. Will his latest creation, Square, change the way we shop? Lara Logan reports   March 17, 2013 4:00 PM

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Weekend Links

• 11 Ways To Be Remarkably Average http://bit.ly/10MLtvf 
• Does a complex world need simpler rules? http://bit.ly/Ze2jwW 
• 22 Google Street View Destinations - Business Insider http://bit.ly/10MKQ59 
• Protein shakes: Bruising | The Economist http://bit.ly/10Myb1W 
• Sexual selection: Hunkier than thou | The Economist http://bit.ly/10My4n8 
• My Edge and the Crossroads | The Reformed Broker http://bit.ly/10LWyg7 
• How data is changing the car game for Ford — Tech News and Analysis http://bit.ly/ZXhEkx 
• Tim Harford — Article — An evidence revolution http://bit.ly/167DidM 
• Solar is about to Change our World | Monetary Realism http://bit.ly/ZHpioH 
• LONGREADS:
• A History of Like – The New Inquiry http://bit.ly/ZHnmwr 
• Infographic: Where a STEM Education Can Take You | Ideas & Innovations|Smithsonian Magazine http://bit.ly/10lxQvK 
• How Lego Is Constructing the Next Generation of Engineers | Ideas & Innovations|Smithsonian Magazine http://bit.ly/167qSCT 
• Lunch with Krugman http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/022acf50-a4d1-11e1-9a94-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2RlkE10pZ …
• RT @: "My Foreign Mom" Ode to an exasperating, embarrassing, wonderful mother: http://flip.it/5MSDN  (by @choitotheworld, new @aeonmag)
• The whole system is rigged - Matt taibbi http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425?print=true …

Wednesday Links

• RT @pkedrosky: Top 20 most well-read cities in U.S. is interesting, but would like to see bottom 20 http://flip.it/JeCrt  /v @timoreilly
• RT @BloombergNews: Building collapse kills 138 in Bangladesh, renewing worker-safety concern | http://flip.it/OAJQ1 
• Chinese Restaurant Owner Says Robot Noodle Maker Doing “A Good Job!” | Singularity Hub http://bit.ly/11EE9xr 
• The Best and Worst Jobs of 2013 - At Work-WSJ http://bit.ly/Zl4NNj 
• Real Returns – Mebane Faber Research–Stock Market and Investing Blog http://bit.ly/15LdUKF 
• Three Cheers for the Internet Tax! - The Daily Beast http://bit.ly/ZOO8gQ 
• Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? http://bit.ly/ZOBDlm 
• 20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare | Mental Floss http://bit.ly/ZkNo7x 
• RT @businessinsider: VIDEO REVIEW: The BlackBerry Q10 $BBRY by @stevekovach http://flip.it/oZM5P 
• Budweiser’s New Pitch: Less Beer, Pay More | http://bit.ly/15IhdCC 
• The Economist explains: What is the Streisand effect? | The Economist http://bit.ly/ZNLojE 
• The Economist explains: Why does liberal Iceland want to ban online pornography? | The Economist http://bit.ly/15FCJYU 
• Gendered language: An ombudsman by any other name would still field complaints | The Economist http://bit.ly/ZNKQKN 
• Photos Of Cabot Fracking - Business Insider http://bit.ly/15FBCIy 
• Jim Cramer's Mad Money Picks: 2011 and 2012 Recap | PunditTracker Blog http://bit.ly/ZJmBgB 
• Monte Carlo's Role in Retirement Planning http://bit.ly/ZiUeug 
• 38 Dogs Who Suck At Hide-And-Seek http://bit.ly/Zl4ORB 

FW: Low-growing fruit

Via: ECONOMIST

Most important thing in history[comic]

Via: RB

Sunday Long form reads

Lunch with the FT: Kim Dotcom - http://bit.ly/11qgwKa
Interview: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg - http://bit.ly/11qi1rL
Profile: Robert Downey Jr.: Movies + TV: GQ http://bit.ly/15o6FYZ
Harvard vs. Stanford: America has a new dream college. - Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/17fwWFu
Why Boston's Hospitals Were Ready : The New Yorker http://bit.ly/Z3sHwR
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen: The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution - http://bit.ly/11qlHbN
How Twitter is becoming your first source of investment news - The Washington Post http://bit.ly/15ylEjz
Polaroid photography: Instant forever | The Economist http://bit.ly/11sz8ZX
A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy | Above the Crowd|By Bill Gurley http://bit.ly/15hs1Hv
An old profile of John Meriwether and LTCM - Dream Team - Businessweek http://bit.ly/15wtMAT
Nate Silver: Confidence Kills Predictions http://bit.ly/ZHVyCk

Sunday Video: Thorium - The Future of Energy

Saturday Long form reads

• How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico NYT
• Amazon CEO Bezos in shareholder letter: Authors are our customers, too — paidContent http://bit.ly/ZjAtlu
• How to Save American Finance from Itself | New Republic http://bit.ly/11PBOBL
• "Why do some people want to cut off a perfectly healthy limb?" http://bit.ly/Zdsu6o 
• Felix Baumgartner’s Story: Who Is the Man Who Pierced the Sky? | Vanity Fair http://bit.ly/Zfzgsn 
• When your house is burning down - The Oatmeal http://bit.ly/WurVTl 
• Stay-at-Home Mom Debate: It's About Work Hours | New Republic http://j.mp/Y9EbPM  (via Instapaper)
• The Invincible Mrs. Thatcher | Vanity Fair http://bit.ly/17mVFuv 
• Walter Kirn on Gun Owners | New Republic http://bit.ly/WPXGIK
• Modern Farmer | This Is What Humane Slaughter Looks Like. Is It Good Enough? http://bit.ly/1766hgg
• Why is it so hard to make a phone call in emergency situations? - Boing Boing http://bit.ly/1767ggt
• GM, Ford, and Chrysler: The Detroit Three Are Back, Right? - Businessweek http://bit.ly/15p28pi
• The Upside Of Being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated) -- Printout -- TIME http://bit.ly/15p2aO1

Video: Mark Carney on the European Economy

Friday Links

• 10 Things Really Amazing Employees Do | Inc. 5000 http://www.inc.com/kevin-daum/10-things-really-amazing-employees-do.html …
• Our Social Blind Spot http://advisors.morningstar.com/advisor/t/73268847/our-social-blind-spot.htm …
• Great Scientists Don't Need Math - WSJ
• Dish Network's Charlie Ergen Is the Most Hated Man in Hollywoodhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/print/432288 
• Evolution of luxury markets FT 
• Infographic : "INEQUALITY AND NEW YORK’S SUBWAY" http://bit.ly/1714I2W 
• "Reddit Bureau of Investigation" http://bit.ly/ZxU7r2 
• Offsetting Behaviour: Markets in Everything: ensuring outbreeding edition http://bit.ly/15mXCYD 
• Reinhart, Rogoff, and How the Macroeconomic Sausage Is Made - Justin Fox-Harvard Business Review http://bit.ly/ZtVOZA
  
  Longreads: 
• Income At Home, Herbalife, and the $8 billion pyramid | The Verge
• What It's Like to Be Kidnapped: Men's Lives: GQ http://j.mp/ZCCZ2e  (via Instapaper)
• The Invincible Mrs. Thatcher | Vanity Fair http://bit.ly/17mVFuv

Science homework? [infographic]

Via: Reuters

Thursday Links

• 
  RT @brainpicker: Everything you ever wanted to know about Bitcoin, explained in a 3-minute motion graphics piece http://flip.it/oNQJ3 
• All-Request Photos: Vladimir Putin, Baby Pigs, Zanzibar ... - In Focus-The Atlantic http://bit.ly/11haon9 
• How Parents Around the World Describe Their Children, in Charts - Olga Khazan-The Atlantic http://bit.ly/ZmErqG 
• The Game Theory Behind Starbucks' Big Coffee Price Cut - Businessweek http://bit.ly/11gSOzo 
• JK Rowling: Creating Harry Potter's Fantasy Empire: Video - Bloomberg http://bit.ly/12a4kOx 
• Air Quality Index, or measure of major pollutants, in cities across China and the U.S. on Friday http://twitpic.com/cjem2a 
• xkcd: All Adobe Updates http://bit.ly/17pXI0F 
• My News Consumption Secret | The Reformed Broker http://bit.ly/Zr2rZC 
• Old Profile of : Carl Icahn Relishes His Raider Role : TWA Is Latest Target as He Rails Against Corporate Executives - Los Angeles Times
• A brief history of four letter words
• What Ron Johnson Got Right - Gardiner Morse - Harvard Business Review
• Forget Gold, the Gourmet Cupcake Market Is Crashing - http://bit.ly/ZqSL4q
• How crowds, not doctors or supercomputers, could diagnose rare diseases — Tech News and Analysis http://bit.ly/Zwugji
• The Rush Toward Cold-Pressed Juices - http://bit.ly/ZxWOZK

Wednesday Links

• EU parliament rejects carbon market rescue fix | Reuters http://bit.ly/10a6YG7
• Did Reinhart-Rogoff Screw Up Their Debt Research? http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/04/did-reinhart-rogoff-screw-up-their-debt-research/ … via @onswipe
• Reinhart And Rogoff Admit Excel Blunder - Business Insider http://bit.ly/11g3zPZ 
• Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities - http://bit.ly/170C1mO 
• 10 Rules on gold: Golden Rules http://flip.it/g4NPs 
• A different world: How one small college is quitting sports -- and might lead a revolution http://sbn.to/Zo0v7h  via @sbnation
• Long read: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico NYT http://www.
• A Fairer Corporate Tax - http://bit.ly/Zvv0Fg 
• Amazon and the tyranny of the EPS http://bit.ly/YUY3Wc 
• You play like you practice by Jason Fried of 37signals http://bit.ly/117nPmT 
• Bitcoin, China, and Goldman Sachs: Six Theories About Why the Price of Gold Is Plummeting : The New Yorker http://bit.ly/118j1h0 
• This column will change your life: Helsinki Bus Station Theory | Life and style|The Guardian http://bit.ly/XwGV4R 
• The dark side of shareholder activism | The Great Debate http://bit.ly/ZnK2A8 

Flying cheap[infographic]

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Gold Reserves[infographic]

Via: reuters

Sunday Night Links

• Jeff Bezos Revealed: Game Changers: Video - Bloomberg http://bit.ly/16WUIHY 
• Amazon CEO Bezos in shareholder letter: Authors are our customers, too — paidContent http://bit.ly/ZjAtlu
• The great Toronto coffee drink challenge: The Shakerato http://bit.ly/17uBYks 
• How Machiavelli Saved My Family by Suzanne Evans - http://bit.ly/Y2ow4J 
• News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier–Media–The Guardian http://bit.ly/ZQQz9y 
• Goldman Sachs Invests in Muppet Factory -- Daily Intelligencer http://bit.ly/17aBXiK 
• [video]College inc. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/?autoplay …
• RT @brainpicker: “To relieve a full bladder is one of the great human joys" http://joysflip.it/djstV 
• RT @flutteringmuse: Deciding Whether Or Not To Have A Baby http://flip.it/nbn2Q 
• Luck, Skill, and Investing http://www.morningstar.com/advisor/t/73249743/luck-skill-and-investing.htm#.UWoYkSzzQz0.twitter …
• Value Investing Is Not Dead. http://iheartwallstreet.com/2013/04/12/value-investing-is-not-dead/ … via @iheartWallSt
• The TECH Silent Partner http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/the-silent-partner … via @fwd
• French Senate Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill http://nyti.ms/110qa4E 
• Third Point Q3 investor letter - http://bit.ly/16Wgjym 
• Freakonomics » The Economics of Toilet Paper http://bit.ly/110t7Dj 
• Jeff Gundlach: Why Own Any Bonds At All? - Business Insider http://bit.ly/110qy41 
• The parable of water | FT Alphaville http://bit.ly/16W3MuU 
• Robots, China and demographics | FT Alphaville http://bit.ly/Zc4G62 

Sunday Video: Bill Ackman

Thursday Links

• How ‘Made in the USA’ is Making a Comeback | http://bit.ly/16UXo7l 
• JC Penney's Johnson Forgot the First Rule of Retail - Bloomberg http://bit.ly/ZbkAxC 
• "Andy Kessler: The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy" http://bit.ly/16PbOaL 
• Five Non-Tech Roles MBAs Are Playing at Top Tech Startups | Official LinkedIn Blog http://bit.ly/16NBBjG
• Physical attractiveness and careers: Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful | The Economist http://bit.ly/Hoqvrh Long reads:
• How to Save American Finance from Itself | New Republic http://bit.ly/11PBOBL
• "Why do some people want to cut off a perfectly healthy limb?" http://bit.ly/Zdsu6o 
• Catching up on Buffet's 2012 letter to shareholders - BH

African Oil[chart]

Via: reuters

Asia car sales [graphic]

 

Via: reuters

FW: 2012 Federal Spending: Where Your Income Taxes Went

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