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The Journal no. 5 – January 21, ​2018

Welcome to The Journal. My goal with The Journal is to post once a week a list of everything that I found interesting from investing, design, architecture, and much more. Here is what I found interesting this week:

Articles

Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon, Steps Out by Nick Wingfield and Nellie Bowles – The New York Times

Is Amazon Going to Rule the World? – WSJ (Video)

Tractor-trailers without a human at the wheel will soon barrel onto highways near you. What will this mean for the nation’s 1.7 million truck drivers? by David H. Freedman – MIT Technology Review

Cool sh*t

Ciclostile Architettura converts 1960s barn into an atelier for artist Francesca Pasquali – archinect.com

grey griffiths architects completes garden studio from waste material, east london – designboom.com

sim-plex maximizes limited space of apartment in hong kong with adjustable furniture – designboom.com

Ten & Two Car Prints – project10and2.com

Nintendo Labo Toy-Con Kits – Uncart

Material Fundamentals – Gearculture

Videos 

NEVER TOO SMALL ep.3 Micro apartment design Cairo Studio – 3 min

NEVER TOO SMALL ep.2 Miniature artist Daniel Dorall – 2 min

Mid-Century Modern Desk Build – 5 min

Jordan B. Peterson on 12 Rules for Life – 90 min

Podcast

#489: The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy – Planet Money – 23 min

What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do? – Freakonomics Radio -39 min

Connor Leonard – Capital Light Compounders & Reinvestment Moats – Invest Like the Best – 66 min

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Thanks for reading, see you next week!

Balal Rasool

 

 

 

 

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The Journal no. 3 – January 7, ​2018

Welcome to the third issue of The Journal. My goal with The Journal is to post once a week a list of everything that I found interesting. Here is what I found interesting this week:

Articles

The 99 best things that happened in 2017 By Angus Hervey – Quartz

Alibaba is trying to reinvent China’s mom-and-pop stores By Karen Hao – Quartz

A world of free movement would be $78 trillion richer By The Economist

Four Amazing Things Gene Editing Did in 2017 – By Emily Mullin – MIT Technology Review

Making China Great Again By  – The New Yorker

Cool sh*t

studio kota designs a steel office pavilion for an industrial facility in indonesia  – Designboom

COPIA LUXURY ECO CABINS – uncrate

Junghans marks 2018 with its latest Max Bill annual edition – acquire

Woosley Outdoor Ping Pong Table – Gearculture

Videos

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban – 14 min

How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines) – Brian Christian – 5 min

Podcasts

Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Radical Honesty –  121 min

David Gardner – Finding Companies That Break the Rules – [Invest Like the Best, EP.54] – 77 min

Designing a Driverless City – 29 min

Millennial Money

On New Year day, I finished reading Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune by Patrick O’Shaughnessy. The book was fascinating. It was filled with useful information about investing and the way a millennial should invest as soon as possible to see the effect of computing. Like the Magic Formula found in the book The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt, Patrick has his own criteria when he invests in a basket of stock with the help of momentum and value investing. I enjoyed reading Millennial Money and I learned a lot about Patrick’s insight. I would recommend reading the book to new investors and to millennials thinking about investing. Patrick O’Shaughnessy has a very interesting podcast about investing named Invest Like the Best I would recommend listening to it.

Sapiens

Last year, I bought Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and I wanted to read the book but never got around to do it. Last week, I bought the audiobook on audible and I am happy to say that I finished listening to Sapiens. Sapiens is the best book I have read so far, and I would recommend it to everyone. I really enjoyed listening to the part about The Unification of Humankind and The Science Revolution. I know for a fact that this will not be the last time I read the book. I look forward reading the sequel Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari.

The 4 Best Books I Read in 2017

Last year, I read 21 books which was a big accomplishment since the year prior I only read one book. I recently wrote a post on The 4 Best Books I Read in 2017. If you did not read it, please check it out here and let me know what was your best read last year.

Thanks for reading, see you next week!

Balal Rasool