One of my guilty pleasures is reading.
I find myself constantly challenging my own perspective by seeking out new ideas, different approaches, and contrary opinions.
At least that is what I tell myself as I skim through vast quantities of blog posts, media articles and academic journals on topics like economics, personal finance, science, technology, and history.
Many bloggers maintain a static blog roll of their favourite writers. The approach I prefer is to present a running log of well written or interesting content I have recently consumed and thought worth sharing.
Interested readers can join me on my quest for knowledge, learning from content I have recently enjoyed.
Enjoy!
Why History Get Stuff Wrong All the Time
Brexit: wisdom of crowds proves effective predictor of Britain’s chaotic EU departure
The Problem With FIREing At 4% And The Need For Flexible Spending Rules
The freedoms Europeans have that 'uncivilised' Australians don't
How I invest my own money
Losing Dollars vs. Losing Percentages
Why this man became a hermit at 20
What PwC Learned from Its Policy of Flexible Work for Everyone
Notes from Peter Thiel’s speech at the National Conservatism conference on July 14, 2019
More than 8 out of 10 people in the world will live in Asia or Africa by 2100
Money and Life Lessons From My 20 years As An Immigrant
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Adoption of automation technologies
Taking Malthus seriously
Friendless pound needs the kindness of strangers
Financial freedom by making decisions like a Police Commander13 min read
The first Europeans weren’t who you might think
Timing of FIRE
The Shape of the World, According to Old Maps
In Case You Missed It, I Am Financially Independent.
Philippe Lemoine on Twitter
Common transport infrastructure: Welfare effects of the Belt and Road Initiative
Does Japan Vindicate Modern Monetary Theory?
Life post FIRE – Not So Hot after All?
The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Why FI Is Popular
South African teens fly from Cape to Cairo in homemade plane
An Idea Is Only Worth So Much
How Britain can help you get away with stealing millions: a five-step guide
‘Guaranteed to lose money’: welcome to the bizarro world of negative interest rates
Inseparable Pairs
Self-Help and the Smuggling of Values
Why I’ve changed my mind about the pension savings lifetime allowance
Going The Distance
Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
What Does Financial Independence Feel Like?
A way out from rock bottom: Economic policies can reduce deaths of despair
Euro 20/20: Twenty papers to better understand the single currency
As small as 12ft by 12ft: are these the worst new flats in Britain?
When council estates were a dream
The effect of fake news on populist voting: Evidence from a natural experiment in Italy
My Preferred Planning Software is MaxiFi
The Impressive Stats Behind Amazon’s Dominance of the Cloud
DJ Ross One on Twitter
‘Scrappy’ is not the same as ‘crappy’
Brexit bluster comes home to roost as growth hits the buffers
Italian Artist Peeta Blends Graffiti and Abstract Forms Into Optical Illusion Murals
Visualizing the Wealth of Nations
Remarkable Nerve Transfer Surgery Restores Hand Movement To People With Paralysis
How behavioural economics helped me kick my smartphone addiction
This is how random global returns are
Good Investors Make Investing Harder
Your state pension: are there missing years in your contributions?
How rehab helps heavy drug and alcohol users think differently
What Countries Attract the Most Foreign Direct Investment?
Knowledge in the hands of the best, not the rest: The decline of US business dynamism
Being Middle Class Isn’t Just a Matter of Income
Scientists create first ever brain-to-brain interface that lets people communicate using only their minds
The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What It Means for Investors
Technology adoption and the middle-income trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia
Should You Take the Annuity or the Lump Sum?
Why Things Break: Easy Causes of Business and Investing Failure
Amazon in-sourcing nearly half of its parcel transportation needs (with video)
Discover Fascinating Vintage Maps From National Geographic's Archives
Ten years of recovery, yet not a happy anniversary
Digital currency areas
Robots and firms
Financial Times
Never Split the Difference Cheat-Sheet
Fantastic arctic fox: animal walks 3,500km from Norway to Canada
RailsConf 2019 - Opening Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson
Executive Summary - The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What It Means for Investors
The economic geography of sovereignist Europe
Disappointment – AVC
$63 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization
How would you support our ageing population?
The Real Cost of Nominal Annuities
Intentionally Left Blank
Women in Tech, My Unpopular Opinion
The 15 Biggest Data Breaches in the Last 15 Years
Write a letter to the future. Do it with me. You know you want to.
Can you afford to retire: How much super will you really need?
Martin Lewis: Financial abuse, joint accounts and managing money within relationships
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Does democracy lead to better health?
The London Evolution Animation
Financial Independence – What Does it Mean For You?
Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
Can you be liable for defamation for what other people write on your Facebook page? Australian court says: maybe
Who were the Mongols?
Market Timing and Risk Management, Part 1 – Macroeconomics
An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie
Elon Musk on Twitter
Our export prospects can burn bright - as long as we dodge a no-deal Brexit
The fiction that predicted space travel
The Retirement Police and the Definition of Retirement
Pinboard on Twitter
The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)
The outperformance of low volatility
Should you always “protect the principal?”
Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
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Inheritance Tax – How Should You Prepare?
How does the stock market work? - Oliver Elfenbaum
Playing With FIRE
Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less
Back to Basics (5/5): Maintaining Discipline
Bodies in Seats
IPML Chapter 1, Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Back to Basics (4/5): Choosing a Strategy
The future of finance report
Here’s a dirty little secret about Australian sporting crowds
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Visualizing investors’ emotions
Kiwis go one up and bring happiness to the budget
Stay in the Game
Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance
Joining the Libra Association
Defining Property
This 19th-century London dandy caused a style revolution
Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end
Blockchain, Association, Reserve
Cashing in on Africa’s lucrative mobile money market
The Creator and the Crowd: Originality’s Balancing Act
Copy Back to Basics (3/5): Protecting Your Wealth
