Interesting Posts

Story of Joshua Bell, a world-class violinist, performing in a subway in Washington. Makes me want to listen to Chaconne.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

Germany owns Trader Joes? Anyone that can beat Wal-Mart at pricing is incredible.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/do-you-know-who-owns-trader-joes/

This is probably relevant to us UCB students right now

http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/10/20/monday-master-class-how-to-stave-off-stress-with-a-mid-semester-dash/

To Read:

Super Memory

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=all

Hiring Strategies by the Master (Gladwell)

http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_12_15_a_teacher.html

Productivity

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity

Look into this:

Micro-Expression Training

http://www.paulekman.com/mett.html

I get a lot of my links from my reader which include Tim Ferriss’s Twitter, Tucker Max’s del.icio.us account, and Scott Adams’ blog. xkcd often sends me down some interesting rabbit holes as well.