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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

When was the last time you called your Mother?

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Luck In Business. What can you do to deal with uncertainty better?  (Fortune)
• Six Things to Put on Your To-Not-Do List. (Forbes)
• The Role Human Judgment Plays In Creating and Managing Algorithms. (Aeon)
• Why Don't Airplanes Fly Faster?  Economic Lift and Drag. (Medium)
• Meet GeoGuessr, a fun little Web game about global geography you haven’t played yet. (TNW)

 

Trading Links:

• Buffett’s Career in Less Than 1000 Words. (AlephBlog)
• When Economists Agree, Start Worrying. (Wall Street Journal)
• Using Big Data to Combat Big Risk. (Advanced Trading)
• 5 Reasons the Government Fails at Venture Capital. (Forbes)
• Jim Rogers. "I Suspect They'll Take The Pension Plans Next; I For One Am Worried, and I'm Taking Preparations" (BullMarketThinking)

A Look Back at the Percent Change In Market Caps of Some Big Tech Names

This chart shows the relative change in market capitalizations of four of the largest publicly trading tech companies. It was published on Daring Fireball back in March. 

 

Click here to see an updated version of this chart.

The unrelenting strength of Amazon provides stark contrast to the relative weakness of Microsoft.

Perhaps more surprising, though, is the recent performance of Netflix and Yahoo. 

Last year it was AOL.

Have You Seen the Re-Design of the NSA Slides? ... worth a look.

This was interesting for several reasons.

It purportedly shows a re-design of a recent NSA slide deck.

 

Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides. from Emiland

 

 

Both the content and the design makeover caught my attention.

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Should You Eat That [Infographic Humor]

My wife has been away ... and the minimum standards in our house have shifted.

Sometimes my son and I look at each other and ask: "Should I eat this?"

Here are some simple rules to help if you find yourself asking the same question.

 

 via FakeScience.

Well, that certainly gives an answer ... not sure it's the right one?

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