My Content List, Monday 5/20 (#1)

4 min readMay 20, 2019

Figured I’d start chronicling some of my favorite articles and podcasts.

I hope to do this each week, but “weekly-ish” (the same frequency of Alex Taussig’s ‘Drinking from the Firehose’s overtures) is likely a more realistic goal. Who knows, maybe I’ll be one and done.

My motivations:

There is an imposing onslaught of news sources — and of daily/weekly round-ups. These lists will hopefully serve as a meta-level compilation of those, curated to touch on my main interests:

Investing: particularly venture capital and private equity, which is what I do for work
Behavioral Economics & Psychology: which is what I studied in school
Innovative/Disruptive Technologies: AI, SaaS, e-commerce, and all those tech buzzwords
Other Personal Intrigues/Fancies: which includes music, entertainment, sports, and everything else that piques my interest

Many of the articles I share will touch on one topic alone; others will intersect several regions in the proverbial Venn diagram of the topics above.

There is hardly enough time to peruse the news these days. So, as a method for triage, my main axiom when determining how to allocate limited reading/listening time is this:

Find content that will help me (i.e. us) understand, analyze, perform, and holistically benefit tomorrow and into the future — not just today.

(So that pretty much eliminates all “gossip”. You can thank me later.)

Compound interest is a powerful thing; thus, if I (i.e. we) can learn 1% more on a broad swath of topics each day or week, it’ll pay huge dividends in the future. I made a resolution when I graduated to squeeze in reading whenever I could — 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there. Life’s made on the margin.

One last thing to note: I promise not to take myself too seriously. No one should.

My Content List, 5/20:

Can CBD Really Do All That? (NYTimes)

2. This Venture Capital Fund Wants to Get You Pregnant (Institutional Investor)

3. The Inside Story of Why Amazon Bought Pillpack in its Effort to Crack the $500BN Prescription Market (CNBC)

4. Stem Cell Treatments Flourish with Little Evidence That They Work (NYTimes)

5. The Future of Housing Looks Nothing Like Today (Fast Company)

6. Private Equity Sees Opportunity in Getting Naked with Strangers (Bloomberg)

7. The Radical, Lucrative, and Controversial Company Hiding in Steve Schwarzman’s Pocket (Institutional Investor)

8. Inside Google’s Civil War (Fortune)

9. ‘Dead Cat Bounce’: A Morbid Metaphor for a Brief Market Rally (WSJ)

10. Brooks Koepka is the King of Golf (WSJ)

11. PropTech: A Massive Opportunity We’re Seeing (NFX)

12. Google Fights Back (Stratechery)

13. Introduction to Annuities (Investopedia)

14. Softbank Managing Partner, Jeff Housenbold, on How Softbank Approach Portfolio Construction, Their Optimal Investment Decision-Making Process, and What Excites Softbank Most in Opportunities Today (Podcast, Twenty Minute VC)

15. Don Felder, Eagles Guitarist, Discusses the Business of Rock and Roll (Podcast, Bloomberg’s Masters in Business)

I’ll (try to) add a brief 1–2 line description and some analysis for each link, but since this post has a LOT of articles, I’m hoping the headlines will catch your eye enough to double-click (with the exception of #13, which is probably just for me)…