–Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism by Harvard’s Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini,
-Third Point’s Daniel Loeb on video (long, but brilliant),
-Also on video: Nassim Taleb at Stanford (via Farnam Street)
–Brooklyn Bridge Ventures‘ Charlie O’Donnell on “The Money and Interestingness Trade”
-John le Carré at The Times: ” a brilliant writer for whom spies are merely subject matter“.
Hedge-funds:2 books, 2 visions (the average and the “genius” ) as reviewed by The Economist
“When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.” – Ben Horowitz from Andreeseen Horowitz
“…when beer writers imagine heaven, it looks exactly like the Southampton Arms.“
a brilliant review by Geoff Dyer of Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station
“Brokers try to flog you things, good advice costs a lot less.” – The last in a line of gentlemen bankers,
“A little business with a little profit and an entire regularity is happiness sterling to the true merchant; while a large business, expecting large profits, but in confusion and disorder, may be flattering but creates much anxiety and little comfort.” – advice from Barclays’ founding families,
naming particles – “The name (quarks) was based on a line from James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake: “Three quarks for Muster Mark!”
Leap Motion:3D gesture control….
Granta and the ‘best young Brazilian novelists’
Lockmann.org 