Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* The same skills that make a good prompter make a good manager. (Courtesy: Met Opera Guild Podcast, Episode 17 Inside the Prompter’s Box)

* The incredible tastiness of shrimp burgers. (Courtesy: EK)

* If you go to a basketball game to see a particular season, go early in the season when they won’t sit him to rest. (Courtesy: LeBron James)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* Garden & Gun average subscriber household income is $332k. (Courtesy: WSJ)

* Fifty-eight percent of private market activity (as measured on Nasdaq Private Market) in 2015 was private company stock buybacks. That number was 44 percent in 2014. (Courtesy: WSJ)

* The history of debt and late evolution of money. (Courtesy: David Graeber’s Debt)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* Mansudae Art Studio is North Korea’s art department, and its artwork is available for sale via an Italy-based company. (Courtesy: NYT)

* Evacuation Day (Courtesy: NYT)

* CubeSat movement technologies. (Courtesy: Economist)

* Northwestern-style xiao long baos have a thicker skin, because of the region’s more common use of flour. (Courtesy: NYT)

* Tobacco was legal tender in Virginia. (Courtesy: David Graeber’s Debt)