The Behavioral Economics Guide 2021
Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20,000 startups
Mexico’s President Is Spoiling for a Fight With Washington.
Managing Your Investments Late in the Cycle: Nobody knows for sure whether equities will keep rising or for how long, but knowing a little market history can help ease the anxiety.
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes.
On Attitudes to Risk: GameStop, Covid and how we perceive Risk.
Worrisome New Coronavirus Strains Are Emerging. Why Now? (Wired)
The problem with prediction: Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think
What to Know About Music’s Copyright Gold Rush.
Virgin Hyperloop Releases Concept Video of Future We Want to Become Reality (Gizmondo):
Currencies, Commodities, Collectibles and Cryptos (from NYU’s Prof. Aswath Damodaran)
The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine
Both Michael Lewis (The Big Short” , “Moneyball”) and Malcolm Gladwell (“Outliers”, “The Tipping Point”) have new books.
Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction (Book Summary from Richard Hughes Jones)
The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Ten computer codes that transformed science: From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.
Two interesting profiles on the Reddit Gamestop craze in NYT and WSJ ( via Matt Levine’s Money Stuff).
So You Turned $300k Into $3 Million. Now What?
The 2020 Jazz Critics Poll: It’s After The End Of The World
In 2018 Morgan Housel (ex-WSJ columnist and Collaborative Fund partner) wrote a report outlining the most important flaws, biases, and causes of “Bad Behaviour” affecting people’s dealing with their money, the report became very popular, so he decided to write a book and deep dive into those topics. These are some notes from the book:
The book ends with two additional chapters , chapter 19 summarizes the previous points. And chapter 20 gives an account of how the author manages his finances when it comes to savings and investing.
At the end of the book there is one additional Chapter that gives an account of why the average us consumer think the way they do (from an Historical Perspective).
I enjoyed the book, it does a good work summarizing some of the most common cognitive bias applied to finance and money.
On Chess and Concentration: Unless we can learn to concentrate better, we have no chance of perceiving, thinking, talking and deciding in the ways required of us in the 21st century.
How Claude Shannon Invented the Future
This Year’s Underground Sensation: Modern Monetary Theory
Notes on technology in the 2020s
A little better all the time in 2021