Below is an excerpt from Mark Yuskos quartlery outlook. Read the full piece on the Morgan Creek website . The first time I heard the name Babson was in 1980 when I was a senior in high school in Weston, Connecticut (serendipitous given some of the themes of this letter and coinciding with Reagan’s…

After pink noise was delivered in short bursts during sleep, older people showed better cognitive function. Photo: iStockphoto/Getty Images Can’t remember where you left your cellphone? Totally forgot about that dentist appointment? If you’re past middle age and really want to hang on to your…

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The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is preordained. This neglects the years of toil that entrepreneurs endure, and also the fact that the vast majority of startups change over time, often dramatically.…

Share 9 Share 33 Reddit Buffer 1 Shares 46 It was only last week that we saw a new AI unicorn birthed alongside speculation that this AI unicorn had also confidentially filed for an IPO. This led us to pontificate a bit about how AI is not the next dot-com because this time it’s different. This…

It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers, organizations — could access equally. Among other things, this allowed independent developers to build products that quickly gained widespread adoption. Google started in a…

Frankie Sanders Munoz, second from right, works with Linda Flick, left, a volunteer for Foundry United Methodist Church’s I.D. Ministry. Scores of low-income Washingtonians face an often months-long road toward gaining or regaining their government identification. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington…

Tokens are early today, but will transform technology tomorrow. The exponential rise of non-Bitcoin tokens prior to the coming correction. Data from coinmarketcap.com/charts In 2014, we wrote that “Bitcoin is more than money, and more than a protocol. It’s a model and platform for true crowdfunding…

Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation HTTP as the underlying protocol of the web allows for decentralized publishing. Anyone can operate a web server and publish their own content. And anybody with a web browser can access that content (subject to governments and ISPs imposing…

USV recently made two investments in hedge fund managers. You might gather from that fact that we are moving away from venture capital. But that would be an incorrect assumption. What we are doing is finding new ways to invest in technologies that we think are interesting. These would be…

Tokens are selling at valuations which imply they’ll have millions of users. But can the blockchain support it? If not, how far away are we? Requirements to building scaled decentralized applications (dApps) There are two requirements to building scaled dApps: Having all of the necessary parts of…

Below you’ll find the complete, unedited transcript of my interview with Naval Ravikant on The Tim Ferriss Show . You can listen to the entire episode here or stream it below: NOTE: You are welcome to share up to 50% of the below transcript on your own site or social, as long as you: 1) Include…

When Reid Hoffman — who is rightly called “the Oracle of Silicon Valley” by many tech giants — returned to the podcast , I figured it would be popular, but it exploded. Many of you have asked for the transcript of our conversation , so you can find it below. More accurately, it’s a draft script, so…

Life Needs “Noise” In a game world of traditional Newtonian physics calculations, time generally flows as a smooth continuum. When attempting to simulate complicated collision physics this way one often gets annoying “trapped” states where objects get trapped between or partially inside one another…

Reflecting on the ritualization of creativity, Bukowski famously scoffed that “air and light and time and space have nothing to do with.” Samuel Johnson similarly contended that “a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.” And yet some of history’s most successful and…

Constant interruptions are the bane of life in today’s open-plan offices . And a Swedish-Swiss industrial engineering company, ABB, says it has a solution: It has given some of its employees a kind of automated “do not disturb” sign: custom-designed traffic lights for their desks. The FlowLight…

Steelcase CEO Jim Keane, right, in his prototype office pod, where he now retreats when he needs to focus. Photo: David Chandler The lofty building Jordan Hamad moved his tech-advisory firm into four years ago had the trappings of a startup idyll: open floor plan, polished concrete floors,…

I got a lot of comments about the two videos I posted last week suggesting that I have nailed the art of public speaking. I don’t know about that, I am my harshest critic. But I do believe that writing regularly makes it so much easier to speak publicly in unscripted situations. Writing forces you…

You may already trust algorithms, or mathematical formulas that reduce the need for human judgment, more than you realize. Commercial airliners fly largely, and safely, on autopilot; Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. recommend purchases that can seem uncannily attuned to your tastes. Why not let…

Andreessen Horowitz’s Marc Andreessen was a guest on Masters in Business hosted by Barry Ritholtz . The content is timeless, so listen with a pen and paper. That way, you can refer back to it from time to time. For transcripts delivered straight to your email, subscribe here . Or for my favorite…

Charles Lindbergh in Germany, in 1937. Philip Roth’s novel “The Plot Against America” imagines the aviator’s election to the Presidency in 1940 and the widespread persecution of Jews that follows. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY AP Philip Roth’s novel “ The Plot Against America ” is a masterwork of…

Reuters/ Brian Snyder “I’m telling you right now, the US is going to have a crash and it will be massive,” asserted Mark Yusko at Mauldin Economics’ Strategic Investment Conference. In his keynote speech, Mark Yusko, CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, outlined where he sees the biggest…

Translated by Geoffrey James Book 1: The Silent Void Thus spake the Master Programmer: “When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave.” 1.1: The Tao of Programming Something mysterious is formed, born in the silent void. Waiting alone and…

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Photo: iStock/Getty Images Many of us vow to get to the gym—then life intervenes. But 21% of U.S. adults do manage to get enough exercise , and these people have some common traits and habits. They are consistent but not rigid. They have open minds about what defines “exercise.” And they have…

Henry and Betsy Schloss run with their sons, Hank, 20 months, left, and Oliver, 3, in Washington Park near their Denver home. The couple used to compete in longer races, but after having children embraced shorter distances. Photo: Theo Stroomer for The Wall Street Journal Henry Schloss says he knew…

Tomorrow marks my one year anniversary at Influx . Making it one year at any startup is always exciting because a) you made it this far and b) the company made it this far. In addition, I’m now proud to announce that we’re growing significantly every month, churn is low and we’re expanding into a…

In a nutshell, Ethereum is a new innovation in computing built from technologies and concepts originally pioneered in Bitcoin. Bitcoin is widely understood as a system for generating a shared world ledger that securely records bitcoin balances. Ethereum uses many of the same systems (such as…

Imagine a company or service that isn't controlled by any single individual, board or other central entity. Known as a decentralized application, or 'dapp' for short, the concept has been one of the more novel ideas to emerge from the blockchain community. Armed with self-executing smart contracts ,…

Photo: Christophe Vorlet The lucky participants in one of the best retirement plans around are coming after yours with a meat cleaver. In the early stages of negotiating tax reform, Congress is already considering whether to reduce the benefits of contributing to a 401(k) and similar retirement…

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SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Jeremy Peters of the New York Times analyzes a generational theory book titled The Fourth Turning , which has played a significant role in shaping the worldview of White House strategist Steve Bannon. In the book, amateur historians William Strauss and Neil Howe argue that…

Stephen K. Bannon tends to view politics and policy in terms of their place in the broader arc of history. Al Drago/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon has great admiration for a provocative but disputed theory of history that argues that the United States is nearing a crisis that…

A leading weapons academic has claimed that the Khan Sheikhoun nerve agent attack in Syria was staged, raising questions about who was responsible. Theodore Postol, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), issued a series of three reports in response to the White…

While the Trump administration pursues massive cuts to HUD that threaten urban neighborhoods, especially poorer ones , there’s one form of housing assistance that the White House is much less enthusiastic about reducing : the mortgage interest tax deduction. The mortgage interest deduction costs the…

LONG VIEW | Rick Rubin in the master bedroom of his Malibu home, with natural sisal rugs, seating carved from Indonesian hardwood and Wilson Audio speakers. Photo: Martien Mulder for WSJ. Magazine A COUPLE OF YEARS back, New York–based architects Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski were touring a…

monero zcash Wednesday April 19, 2017 at 10:11 AM ← Older If you follow the world of cryptocurrencies, you probably know that Monero is a privacy-centric cryptocurrency that has surged in the market since late 2016. My coauthors and I, from Princeton and UIUC, have just released some research…

Enlarge / The Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones in question. Bose An Illinois man has accused Bose, the audio equipment manufacturer, of illegally wiretapping him via his Bose headphones. According to a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago on Tuesday, Kyle Zak bought a $350…

Support the news 100-Day Spotlight Political Upheaval, By Design 47:39 Play April 11, 2017 Share President Trump’s top advisor Steve Bannon is a big fan of the book “The Fourth Turning” and its dark message of political upheaval. We’ll check it out. White House chief strategist Steve Bannon steps…

If you want to make a progressive squirm, tell him that history is cyclical. Whether they realize it or not, progressives borrow their entire worldview from Christianity, and therefore have a fundamentally millenarian view of history. The idea of cycles makes them uncomfortable. That’s why Tom…