The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a comfy seat, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:
• New York: Life Above 800 Feet (NYT) (Its an astonishing interactive column)
• How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush GooglePlus (Vanity Fair)
• Warren Buffett Helps Tackle The Age-Old Question: ‘What Makes A Financial Bubble?’ (Forbes)
• Why You Can’t Get a Ticket to the NBA Finals . . . and every other major event on the planet. This is a fan’s guide to why you’re totally screwed. (The Ringer)
• The Empty Brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer (Aeon)
• A New Origin Story for Dogs The first domesticated animals may have been tamed twice. (Atlantic)
• Rethinking Knowledge in the Internet Age (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet (NYT) see also After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight (NYT)
• The Secret History of Tiger Woods (ESPN)
• A day in the life of Reince Priebus, reluctant GOP peacemaker (Businessweek) see also This Is What the Future of American Politics Looks Like (Politico)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Steven Pinker, Professor of cognitive psychology at Harvard, and author of How the Mind Works.
Earnings and Performance Data For All Earnings Recessions Since 1955
Source: Reformed Broker
