inside a star filled sky

ultra cool video game.

Jason Rohrer

more of his stuff here.

I want to try Passage and Cultivation

language hacking

We start with a website:
Fluentin3months

His advice:
Start speaking the language right away.

Find a list of cognates (words which overlap with a language you already know).

Build vocab using cognates, image association, and spaced repetition

Learn useful phrases

Learn grammar last

Finally a link to links: blogs

Cesar Hildago

does interesting work with networks

Homepage

Including economic networks (how different products are connected)

IDCC, what I did wrong

IDCC is valuable because they hold a number (8000) important wireless patients. I knew this months ago, bought the stock, and sold it when it went nowhere.

Then came the Google vs Apple/Microsof/RIM purchase of Nortel. This clearly indicated a will to buy patient portfolios.

Several weeks later, IDCC made a huge price jump on rumours of a buyout.

investing in gold

Gold is a hedge, which suggests it should be 10-15% of the portfolio.

You can buy ounces of gold above ground (bullion) or below ground (mining companies). Gold stocks normally show 2-3x leverage on any move in bullion, up or down, suggesting that they are lagging.

GDX is the mining ETF.

ETFs may be better than individual companies, as each company has its own dynamic. Still, two possibilities are
Newcrest Mining PINK:NCMGY
Goldcorp NYSE:GG

Simon Mainwaring "We first capitalism" 14 july 2011

Corporations as the third force for social change.

A company should, out of self interest, be interested in maintaining the society in which it operates.

Engagement.

Examples: Cocacola shipping vaccines in the dead spaces in their cola crates.

Corporations using their expertese (supply chain, logistics, etc) to support society.

A hero company: patagonia

Educational videos

Some resources:

engineerguy.com

pbs.org/teachers

youtube.com/edu

and, of course, khan academy