Among the things I learned this week:
* Austin, TX (Courtesy: Personal Experience)
* The lost techniques and era of Chinese fashion. (Courtesy: New Yorker)
* Ten states have fewer jobs now than when the start of the Great Recession. The states are: Wyoming, Alabama, New Mexico, New Jersey, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, Maine, Connecticut, and West Virginia. (Courtesy: NYT)
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)
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)