20191031 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

Why Frontier Markets Hold Promise, with an Asterisk: Political unrest still can upend otherwise impressive growth. (CIO)

The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets (The Atlantic)

Different Kinds of Stupid (Collaborative Fund)

Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition: We wander about the unknown terrains of life, complacent about what we know and oblivious to what we miss. (Scientific American)

Diaper rush: conquering a $9 billion market no one wants to talk about (Reuters)

How the baby boomers broke America (Politico)

The Death of Cars Was Greatly Exaggerated (Wired)

The Planet Hunting Machine: taking the lonely search for habitable planets and automating it. (Alta)

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything: Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have transformed our world. (Slate)

50 Companies to Watch in 2020 (Businessweek)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20191024 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

Andrew Yang Keeps Talking About the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What the Heck Is That? (Slate)

Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About? (New York Times)

Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage (Techcrunch)

Facebook Finds New Disinformation Campaigns and Braces for 2020 Torrent (NYT)

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. (MIT Technology Review)

The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History (Wired)

Where ESG Fails: Despite countless studies, there has never been conclusive evidence that socially responsible screens deliver alpha. A better model exists (Institutional Investor)

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything (Slate)

The Best Predictor of Stock-Fund Performance (Morningstar)

Brexit and the Decline of Brand Britannia (Businessweek)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM
 

20191017 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

World War II: The Economic Anomaly (A Wealth of Common Sense)

Trump’s ‘China Muse’ Has an Imaginary Friend Who is Ron Vara? He only seems to exist in the books of Peter Navarro. (Chronicle)

NBA exec: ‘It’s the dirty little secret that everybody knows about’. (ESPN)

Artificial Intelligence: What’s to Fear? (American Interest)

Krugman: What Economists (Including Me) Got Wrong About Globalization (Bloomberg)

The germiest place in your home: “It’s actually safer to make your sandwich on a toilet seat than a cutting board”  (CNN)

Record debt and inequality gap? It’s almost like 40 years of Republican tax cuts failed. (USA Today)

Why Everything Is Getting Louder: The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt. (The Atlantic)

Monty Python at 50: a half-century of silly walks, edible props and dead parrots (The Guardian)

​Social media social media is designed for emotion, not dialogue. (Longreads)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM
 

20191010 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

The NBA’s Convenient “Non-political” Stance Comes at a Cost (The Ringer)

The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism (The New Yorker)

When Did Charts Become Popular? (Priceonomics)

People Who Work from Home Earn $2,000 More a Year (Bloomberg)​​

MDMA 💊 (Scott Galloway)

A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms (Politico)

Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground (Washington Post)

Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World (Collaborative Fund)

A Taxonomy of Moats (Reaction Wheel)

Warren Buffett, Ray Dalio And Ken Fisher Show There’s Utility In Humility (Forbes)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20191003 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

 Are Millennials Ready to Save the Economy? (Bloomberg)

Inside the new Uber: Weak coffee, vanishing perks and fast-deflating morale (Washington Post)

Neither, and New: Lessons from Uber and Vision Fund (Stratechery)

Numeracy and Decision Making (SAGE)
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Great Ideas Are Growing Scarce. That’s Not So Great. Technological innovation is slowing, threatening not just growth but even our survival. (Bloomberg)

Female Artists Made Little Progress in Museums Since 2008, Survey Finds (New York Times)

Our Skulls Are Out-Evolving Us: A motley crew of scientists argue that our ever-shrinking skulls are wreaking havoc on our well-being (Medium)

Sweet Nothings: The ASMR Phenomenon and American Intimacy (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Value Stocks Beckon Investors in Aging Bull Market (Wall Street Journal)

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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM