"Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but the business which we have to do, and which we have to finish honestly, up to our life's end." -Alexis De Tocqueville
A Thesis on the U.S. Airline Industry - by Phil Ordway (LINK)
The "Indian Coffee Can Portfolio" [H/T @chriswmayer] (LINK)
Grant’s Podcast: Empty seats at the Fed -- and empty data from Facebook (LINK)
a16z Podcast: Adjusting to Trade… and Innovation (LINK)
The Remarkable Laziness Of Woody Allen [H/T The Browser] (LINK)
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The latest Audible sale, which ends September 17, 2017 at 11:59 PM PT, has a number of good titles on sale for $4.95 for Audible members. Below are some that stood out to me:
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man's Fight for Justice
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Selfish Gene