My easy like Sunday morning reads:
• How Google Is Turning Cities Into R&D Labs (FastCo Design)
• Mutual Fund Fees: A Bad Incentive Fades Away (MoneyBeat)
• How to choose an Honest Financial Advisor in Ten Minutes (A Teachable Moment)
• ICYMI: Warren Buffett’s 50th annual letter to shareholders(Berkshire Hathaway)
• A Refresher on Statistical Significance (HBR)
• Micklethwait’s Balancing Act, After a Year as Bloomberg Editor in Chief (NYT)
• The Phony Islam of ISIS: The group’s interpretation of the religion is not literal. It is not serious. And saying otherwise puts Muslims in an impossible situation. (The Atlantic)
• A mass extinction of bees and butterflies could threaten world food crops, UN report finds (Mashable)
• How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body (Well)
• The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit (Quillette)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Emanuel Derman, former head of the Goldman Sachs Quantitative Strategies Group, now Director of Columbia University Master’s program in financial engineering.
Renewables Beat Gas Again
Source: Bloomberg