Archive for the ‘reading’ Category
I was hanging at the Chicago Public Library a few weeks ago, and this book caught my eye. I’m a huge fan of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “James and the Giant Peach”, so I was intrigued by the idea of Dahl as a British spy. Dahl entered WW2 as a member of the [...]
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Rationality vs. Animal Instincts
The New Yorker had an interesting book review/article that tied 3 recently published books together in order to determine the origins of our current economic crisis. Fool’s Gold by Gillian Tett Of the 3 books listed, this one seems the most likely to find a spot on my reading list. Written by a Financial Times [...]
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Tags: economics, finance, JPMorgan, psychology
Earlier, I posted a list of books that fed my wanderlust. Almost a year later, I’m happy to report back that I’ve read 75% of the books that I wanted to read…..here’s a quick review of Robert Kaplan’s “Balkan Ghosts – A journey through history”. This book was first published in 1993, right before the [...]
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Tags: Balkan, Communism, Greece, Robert Kaplan, Romania, travel, Yugoslavia
This fascinating article(New York Times Magazine) scratches the surface into how credit card issues are mining your historical transactions and making conclusions on the basis of that data. Since banks employ loads of smart researchers and Ph.Ds, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that the data is being used in tihs fashion. I’m split on this. [...]
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Tags: banks, data mining
What I’m Reading Online- Shopping Carts Will Track Consumers' Every Move December 9, 2011
- How to Use Photoshop to Pop Pimples, Change Facial Expressions, and Alter Reality As We Know It [Video] November 7, 2011
- Telling Stories with Data – VisWeek 2011 November 4, 2011
- With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again November 4, 2011
- Social Media Success Is About Purpose (Not Technology) November 1, 2011
- Explaining The Income Gap With Candy Corn October 31, 2011
- And Here It Is: The New Google Reader Revealed October 31, 2011
- The George Costanza Approach to Fixing Fatal Flaws October 25, 2011
- Adobe Image Deblurring Done on Capa’s Famous D-Day Photo October 25, 2011
- The 9 Skills Needed to Be a Super-Connector October 23, 2011
