Read : 2021-05-21

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “Battery breakthrough for electric cars” by Leah Burrows (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-05-12).
2. “The guts of our ancestors” by Eric Bender (Harvard Medical School, 2021-05-12).
3. “Is inflation a problem? Maybe, but more likely not” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-05-14). An interview with HBS Professor Alberto Cavallo.
4. “The value of doing something real in the world” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation).
5. “Stop comparing yourself to the performative junk on social media” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation).
6. “Why you shouldn’t buy bitcoin when you’re hungry” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2021-05-21). On flavors of noise: level, pattern, and occasion.

Read : 2021-05-09

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “Value investing is struggling to remain relevant” (The Economist, 2020-11-14). The rules of investing have not changed — investors still want to buy a thing at a price less than it’s worth — but rather the scope and weight of intangible assets, which are hard to measure accurately, especially with the tools touted by old-school value investing.
2. “Berkshire Hathaway’s questionable performance and governance” (The Economist, 2021-05-06). Challenges to BRK investors.
3. “How to get the best VPN speeds” by Douglas Crawford (Proton VPN, 2021-03-02).