A Bankruptcy History of Manias & Panics (in 70 pages)
This is really long but just take a look at the table of contents and you’ll see why it’s worth the read.
Check out: Appendix Exhibit 3: Business Failures (1857-1998) in the PDF.
The history of bankruptcy law is intertwined with that of crises and banking law, and —as illustrated using over 30 case studies— is a consistent cause, accelerant, and reaction of financial manias and crises.
How We Started The Largest U.S. Matcha Green Tea Supplier And Grew It To $100K/Month
This was a great interview with the founders of Matcha.com. They explain how they got started, what was the process was like to find the families that grow green tea to the production and packaging, to the books and influences and more!
Great matcha is harvested by hand once a year. This picking is called the “First Harvest, or “ the first tea of the year.” It usually happens in the first week of May and continues for several weeks. Once the matcha is hand-picked, it is processed (if you want to know more go to our website) according to a time-honored tradition. Producing matcha is a very labor-intensive process. It takes 1 hour to produce 30g of matcha. Which is another reason why great matcha is expensive?
The Import and Export of Ideas
Read a lot and learn/develop new skills and knowledge!
This is an example of the import and export of ideas. It’s the ability to take scientific concepts, technologies, or theoretical frameworks from one domain and apply them to entirely different ones. And as the world has become more specialized, this ability has become that much more important. It helps reduce reinvention of ideas, and shows that there are certain fundamentally similar insights that stretch across fields.
Also Farnam Street wrote a good piece on the half-life of knowledge, too!
Meet Yue Dai, the man who owns the most two-letter .com domains
I thought this was a good read/skim of an article. In this interview, you learn his reasoning on why two domain websites are the way to go in China and you’ll learn more about Chinese internet business.
Two letter .com domains are some of the most valuable online real estate. And you’ll find many of these domains registered to Chinese companies and investors. Chinese domain investor Yue Dai owns the largest portfolio of these prized domains, according to Whois records.
How to build a data analytics dream team
You’ll need a data translator, data scientist, data engineer, and more!
Like other analytics jobs, the data translator role is known by other names, in this case data curator or data storyteller. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we start hearing data whisperer,” Sutton said.