Links of the month

February 2020

1. Book Recommendations:

1. Tools for Conviviality

2. Cloud Data Management

3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

2. Ten Interesting Articles/Research Notes

1. Berkshire Hathaway’s 2019 shareholder letter

2. Why it only costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise

3. To Get Good, Go After The Metagame

4. Renegades of Junk: The Rise and Fall of the Drexel Empire

5. The Holy Grail of Self Improvement

6. Suckers List: How Allstate’s Secret Auto Insurance Algorithm Squeezes Big Spenders

7. Garbage Language: Why do Corporations speak the way they do?

8. Costco Capitalism

9. The technology that changed air travel

10. Visions of ARPA

3. Ten Videos

4. Ten Charts/Graphics