20180823 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.

 

Welcome to Hotel Millennial: You can check out any time you like, but you may never get clean sheets. (The Outline)
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Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition (Scientific American)
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Spotify is falling behind on lyrics and voice (TechCrunch)
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Inside Facebook’s plan to protect the U.S. midterm elections Is it enough? (Recode)

If you’re wondering why you’ve lost friends in adulthood, this is probably why (Vox)An unusual medical training tool got its start as a childish prank (Quartz)
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The Iraqi Spy Who Infiltrated ISIS (New York Times)​​​

How America Convinced the World to Demonize Drugs (Vice)

Bribes, Backdoor Deals, and Pay to Play: How Bad Rosé Took Over (Bon Appetit)​

​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20180816 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.

 

 

Where even Walmart won’t go: how Dollar General took over rural America (The Guardian)
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The Re-Origin of Species: bringing extinct animals back to life (The Guardian)

The psychology behind why you always want to sit in the same seat (Quartz)

The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain (The Atlantic)
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How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity (Washington Post)In Germany, a news site is pairing up liberals and conservatives and actually getting them to (gasp) have a civil conversation (Nieman Lab)
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“What Have We Done?”: Silicon Valley Engineers Fear They’ve Created a Monster (Vanity Fair)
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“Big Four” accountancy firms, mired in scandals, are so bad at auditing they’ve become a danger to capitalism (Financial Times)​

​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM
 

20180809 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.

 

How music has responded to a decade of economic inequality (Vox)
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San Francisco is a ‘nirvana’ for China’s main intelligence agency — and the center of an intensifying spy war (Business Insider)​The Cult of Trump Makes the Worst Conspiracy Theories Mainstream (GQ)

A Beast for the Ages: Why do we love (and fear, and kill) polar bears with so much intensity? (Longreads)

Surrendering to Rising Seas Coastal communities struggling to adapt to climate change are beginning to do what was once unthinkable: retreat. (Scientific American)
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How Human Smarts Evolved: By counting the number of neurons in brains, one scientist revolutionized our view of why Homo sapiens and nonhuman primates are so much smarter than other animals. (Sapiens)
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (Circa 1490) (Open Culture)
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‘Flop Accounts’ Are the New Teen Thing on Instagram (The Atlantic)


​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20180802 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.

 

 

By the numbers: China’s foreign-educated students are returning home (Axios)
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This is the Amazon everyone should have feared — and it has nothing to do with its retail business (Recode)Billionaires gone wild: The American media landscape is being reshaped by the whims of the ultra-rich (Columbia Journalism Review)

​Brain Gain: A Person Can Instantly Blossom into a Savant–and No One Knows Why (Scientific American)

When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life (Gizmodo)

Theresa May’s Impossible Choice: With Brexit looming, the Prime Minister is battling Trump, Europe, and her own party  (New Yorker)

An Unlikely Group Of Billionaires And Politicians Has Created The Most Unbelievable Tax Break Ever (Forbes)

The Seven Sins of Memory (Psychology Today)

There Is More to Behavioral Economics Than Biases and Fallacies (Behavioral Scientist)​​

​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20180726 Tamim Investment Research List

The TAMIPictureM 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.

 

 

Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate NRA and Elect Trump (Rolling Stone)

Plutonium is missing, but the government says nothing (Center for Public Integrity)
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Cash is a miracle. So why are more businesses refusing it? (Slate)​​​​

Life may have existed on the Moon four billion years ago (Telegraph)

Life on Earth could be nearly four billion years old, fossil suggests (The Independent)

Why Elon Musk is hard not to like (1843)

How the Blog Broke the Web (Stacking the Bricks)

​Elected Leaders Are Making the World Less Democratic (Bloomberg)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM