Links - 7/6/2020
“The number one thing that has made us successful by far is obsessive-compulsive focus on the customer, as opposed to obsession over the competitor.” —Jeff Bezos
“We spend a very small amount of time thinking about competition. We spend almost all the time trying to improve the service. And that's because there's nothing we can do about the competition.” —Reed Hastings
Warren Buffett's Berkshire buys Dominion Energy natural gas assets in $10 billion deal (LINK)
Cashless Payments & the Pandemic (LINK)
The Grant Williams Podcast: The End Game Ep. 3 - Mike Green (LINK)
The Acquirers Podcast: AQR’s Clifford Asness on fundamental analysis and systematic value (LINK)
COMPLEXITY Podcast: The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales (LINK)
A record-breaking quasar poses a supermassive problem - by Phil Plait (LINK)
Neanderthals and Covid-19, beyond the hype - by John Hawks (LINK)
The Deleted Clause of the Declaration of Independence (LINK)
The America Ben Franklin saw - by Walter Isaacson [2012 article] (LINK)
Job Interviews Don’t Work (LINK)
The Lattice Organization (LINK)
A great collection of essays (LINK)
A few interesting books that have come across my radar over the last week:
The Mind of Wall Street - by Leon Levy [Recommended by Mike Green in the podcast above.]
The Captain - by Jan De Hartog [I believe this was the novel recently recommended by Jim Simons.]
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world - by Nick Lane
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything - by Robert M. Hazen [Professor Hazen is also the instructor for one of my favorite, multidisciplinary online courses: The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence.]