Thursday, April 30, 2015

Weekend Linkfest

From the Archives: David Foster Wallace - “All That” (New Yorker, December 14, 2009)
Measuring the Moat - Part 1 | Safal Niveshak http://www.safalniveshak.com/measuring-the-moat-part1/ …
In 2005, Tony Menendez blew the whistle on Halliburton’s accounting practices. The fight cost him 9 years of his life http://di.gg/1OfF83w
The end of GE Capital is a victory of making stuff over making markets http://s.hbr.org/1GjZJiF
Why G.E. Ditched Finance [H/T Abnormal Returns] (LINK)
5 Great Ideas For The Future Of Flying (And One Really Terrible One)
You Have $8 Billion. You Want To Do As Much Good As Possible. What Do You Do?
Wormholes Untangle A Black Hole Paradox
How Washington Derailed Amtrak
Twelve Rude Revelations About Sex
The Remarkable Rise and Fall of McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson
A Day in the Life of Melinda Gates [H/T VIW] (LINK)
Latticework of Mental Models: Occam’s Razor [H/T VIW] (LINK)
Phil DeMuth's Daily Journal Annual Meeting Notes, Part 4 (LINK)
Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife on What It Takes to Be a Mogul (LINK)
Profile of Dave Asprey, the Bulletproof coffee guy [H/T Abnormal Returns] (LINK)
Amazon Reveals Just How Huge the Cloud Is for Its Business (LINK)
The Art of Butchery
Profiles: Born Red