By Tren Griffin
The Complete Investor
People calculate too much and think too little.
Who is Charlie Munger?
Charlie Munger is most well known for being the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway controlled by Warren Buffet. Munger’s work, alongside, Buffet has seen Berkshire Hathaway’s provide a return to its investors on an unimaginable scale with a $1,000…
Are you indispensable?
By Seth Godin
Wait! Are you saying that I have to stop following instructions and start being an artist? Someone who dreams up new ideas and makes them real? Someone who finds new ways to interact, new pathways to deliver emotion, new ways to connect? Someone who acts like a…
My exam notes covering all aspects of amazon’s entry level qualification
The majority of my learning was done through following the Linux Academy course and so my notes will follow the same format (it is a great course that I would highly recommend!)
So what is the Cloud Practitioner Exam?
The CPE is Amazon’s introduction to the…
A Very Short Introduction
By Dawn E. Holmes
What is Big Data?
Holmes describes how we the size of the data in itself is cannot be a standalone metric for whether something is under the banner of ‘Big Data’.
Instead, we can use the three V’s — Volume, Variety and Velocity:
- Volume — “Refers to the amount of…
A Very Short Introduction
By Margaret A. Boden
The Missionaries and Cannibals Problem
The M&C problem is a classic puzzle in Artificial Intelligence. The puzzles goes that:
On one bank of a river are three missionaries and three cannibals. There is one boat available that can hold up to two people and that they would like to use to…
Lessons in Creative Leadership
By Robert Iger
Innovate or die, and there’s no innovation if your operate out of fear of the new or untested.
Who is Robert Iger?
Robert Iger is currently Chairman of the Walt Disney Company following his 15 year tenure as CEO starting in 2005. Over his time leading the company, the market cap…
The Art & Science of Prediction
By Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
Who is Philip Tetlock
Philip Tetlock is currently the Annenberge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania where he is cross-appointed at the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences.
Tetlock is most widely known from his work “Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How…
The Power of Transcendental Meditation
By Bob Roth
Maharishi taught us the the simple yet precise technique of how to personally teach any individual to transcend — to effortlessly access the deep stillness that lies within every human being
Scientific Studies of TM
“From his earliest days of teaching TM in the world in 1958, Maharishi focused on researching…
The Rise of Pointless Work and What We Can Do About It
By David Graeber
A YouGov poll found that in the United Kingdom only 50% of those who had full-time jobs were entirely sure their job mad any sort of meaningful contribution to the world, and 37% were quite sure it did not. …
Where Artificial Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov
Who is Garry Kasparov?
Kasparov is a chess grandmaster and former world champion. From 1986 to his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked №1 for 225 of 228 months. In 1997 he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer , when he lost to the IBM…
