For Your Wednesday Morning Reading Pleasure – March 11, 2015
Sunil Sharma
Here is an assortment of articles that I found useful around the net. Peruse through them and maybe you would find them useful too. Some are related to the markets, some to general productivity and some to geo-political.
A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Gets It Very, Very Wrong On Seasonal Adjustment – This is so wrong that it’s hard to know where to begin. First, seasonal adjustment isn’t entirely, or even primarily, about the weather. It’s about accounting for recurring patterns, whatever they may be. Tax preparation firms hire lots of people every spring and then lay them off after April 15. Landscaping firms employ far more people in the summer than in the winter. Automakers shut down their factories each summer to change over to the new model year.
How The Most Powerful People Get Things Done: 4 Tips From A White House Staffer -The modern world provides us with tons of information. All that data often makes simple decisions easy. But it can also make complex decisions feel impossible. How can we wade through all this info? It’s paralyzing. At The White House, decisions need to be made quickly because lives could be on the line. Paralysis isn’t an option.
12 financial experts explain why Warren Buffett is so successful – “But one thing that always impresses me about him is how aggressively anti-stupid he is. It’s not that he’s not willing to take risks; it’s just that he has a great sense of behaviors that are, whether in the moment or in retrospect, plainly stupid — and yet many people are willing to engage in patently stupid behavior because they’ve somehow convinced themselves it’s not stupid.”
10 things the most persevering people do – Ultimately, scientific studies reveal this secret is not necessarily a matter of talent, intelligence, creativity or strategy. As the winds of change continue to stir, the question of what it takes to achieve success remains as important today as ever. Interestingly, the answer to that question is also the same as it was 100 years ago.
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