Links - 9/21/2020
“People say that you should change your mind when the data changes; but I change my mind even when the data doesn’t change, because I reanalyze the situation every day and sometimes I just come to a better analysis. And I think actually what I said yesterday I don’t believe anymore.” —Jeff Bezos
Sounding good or Doing good? A Skeptical Look at ESG - by Aswath Damodaran (LINK)
The Transcript 09.21.20 (LINK)
Banks Pile Into Treasurys, Helping to Fund Government Borrowing Spree ($) (LINK)
Short-seller Carson Block discusses Nikola's founder resigning (video) (LINK)
Ray Dalio on capitalism’s crisis: The world is going to change ‘in shocking ways’ in the next five years (LINK)
What Got You There Podcast: #212 Blas Moros- Founder of The Latticework on Lifelong Learning, Mental Models & a Multidisciplinary Approach to Life (LINK)
Related link: The Latticework
How I Built This Podcast: Khan Academy: Sal Khan (LINK)
a16z Podcast: TikTok & Beyond: The Algorithm Question, The Future of Product (LINK)
Related article: Seeing Like an Algorithm - by Eugene Wei
The Cognitive Biases that Make Us All Terrible People - by Mark Manson (LINK)
The Core Lesson of the COVID-19 Heart Debate - by Ed Yong (LINK)
Ed Yong on the In the Bubble Podcast: How Will COVID-19 End? (LINK)
Related link: Ed Yong’s articles
“Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory.” —Leo Tolstoy
“Only when we forget what we were taught do we start to have real knowledge.” —Henry David Thoreau
“Read less, study less, but think more. Learn, both from your teachers and the books which you read, only those things which you really need and which you really want to know.” —Leo Tolstoy