• PERMA: The one word you need to know to be happier:
  - Positive emotion
  - Engagement
  - Relationships
  - Meaning
  - Accomplishment (Eric Barker)

Finance Stuff:

• Platinomics: The economics of the $1 trillion platinum coin option (Economics);
  A platinum coin as big as the Ritz (New Yorker); and
  The platinum coin idea is idiotic. That is the point. (WaPo)
• Five brutal years teach investors to sit tight (Businessweek)
• The arithmetic of active management:
  Because active and passive returns are equal before cost, and because active managers bear greater costs, it follows that the after-cost return from active management must be lower than that from passive management. (Stanford)
• The bloodhounds of capitalism: It is a good time to be a corporate investigator (Economist)
• The emerging-world consumer is king (Economist)
• How the Rothschilds created modern finance and a vast fortune that has lasted for centuries (Business Insider)

Career Stuff:

• 13 things you’re doing to sabotage your success:
  1. Grammar
  2. Flaky McFlakerson
  3. Quick sale
  4. Talking crap
  5. Over-promising
  6. Not my fault
  7. Lack of patience
  8. Pretend motives
  9. Without intention
  10. Overcommitting
  11. Complication
  12. Subtraction by addition
  13. B.S. (Forbes)
• Why you shouldn’t work less: Even if you prefer spending time with your family (Slate)
• Never lie about you really are (HBR) [Very powerful article about standing up for your truth.]

Science Stuff:

• Can you trust your intuition?
  - Trust your gut on a subject –if it’s something you’re an expert at
  - For simple decisions without many factors involved (What soda should I buy?) be rational. For very complex or weighty decisions (What career should I pursue?) trust your gut. [Think less about those items that you care a lot about. Don’t be afraid to let your emotions choose.] (Eric Barker)

Digital Stuff:

• Top 10 ways to speed up and beef up your Google searches (Life Hacker); and
  The Google+ long game is brilliant (Feld Thoughts)
• The future according to Google’s Larry Page: (Fortune)
• The internet a decade later (via Big Picture)

Interesting Stuff:

• The tip of the spear: In the mid-1980s, journalist Joel Sappell and a colleague began a five-year examination of the Church of Scientology that would ultimately produce a 24-article series. It would also change Sappell’s life in ways both mystifying  and unnerving. Decades later the onetime investigative reporter investigates what happened to him. (LA Magazine)
• Cocaine Incorporated: Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel is a complex, multi-billion-dollar business operating in more than a dozen countries. (NYT)
• Their cup runneth over: Britain’s drinking culture is deeply unhealthy. So is the politics of drink (Economist)

Fun Stuff:

• Confessions from flight attendants (LA Times)
• 10 craziest things employees tried to expense last year (Businessweek) [How could you NOT have a baby giraffe for your party?]
• Man has alarming level of pride in institution that left him $50,000 in debt, inadequately prepared for job market (Onion)
• The most glorious ‘Special Instructions’ customers have requested on Seamless: eg. “I smoked mad weed and I got a new video game so don’t break your balls getting here.” (Betabeat)