Reads from the Past Week

Below is everything I’ve read, watched, or listened to this past week. The books may have been started in previous weeks, but were finished in the previous seven days. Most of my reading relates to education for sustainable development (Edu21).

My top picks are in red text.

BooksEducation for Sustainable Happiness and Well-Being
Articles and VideosPresidential Candidate Plans for Achieving American Prosperity - from my blogQuestions of the day - from my blogStudent Views and Voices - from my blogTrump Trade Proposals Could Sink EconomyThe risky politics of progress | Jonathan Tepperman - videoPeter Navarro outlines the Trump economic planHere's the Economist Whose Ideas Guide TrumpAssessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential CampaignLive Fact Check: Trump And Clinton Debate For The First TimeWhy should we live in a low rate world?Power Poses Are Dead​Sal Khan: Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores - videoChina fact of the dayUtility in the 21st centuryThe best reason to give laterGlobal Inequality: Is it getting better or worse?How to help the worldGive now or later? What to do when the order of your actions mattersWhat are the world’s biggest problems?How to Get the Deepest Rest of AllCan other cities be as competitive as Singapore?Trump and Sanders Test Economic Model Predicting a G.O.P. WinIf Trump wins, what is the best theory of why?Quant trading economies of scale someone should give Doug his own blogDavid Brooks on why Hillary Clinton isn’t winning by moreCapitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up | Yanis Varoufakis - videoPeter Diamandis’s 9 Rules For Building A Successful Business“Ultimately, isn’t this exactly what it means to be an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur clearly envisions the future and becomes so enamored with it that they turn their thoughts into reality and will the future they desire into existence.”Why We Need to Talk about High-Functioning Depression“High-functioning depression is when someone seems to have it all together on the outside, but on the inside, they are severely sad. Carol Landau, PhD, a clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior and medicine at Brown University, says she primarily sees this in women with a penchant for perfectionism—AKA the same people who are likely your colleagues and friends with enviable lives and a long list of personal achievements.”From the comments, how to hit it big?“First venture capital is generally consider where washed-out Wall Streeters go, when they can’t cut it in real finance. Very few b-school students start out trying to get into VC. And no, generally Silicon Valley people are not nearly as smart as HFT/algo quants. The type of kids who go to Google or Facebook are generally the Ivy CS students from the upper half of their class who are good at white-boarding problems (e.g. reverse a linked list). The truly brilliant kids, Putnam winners, math olympiads, core kernel contributors, etc. disproportionately go the quant route. (In which at least half will wind up in Chicago).”Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship?“I try to think about how someone 100 years from now might think about politics, how a historian looking back — and when we look back, 100 years or 200 years, we often find it very difficult to understand why people seem to get upset about little things that in the end didn’t matter much. And I think it’s important to take that view when thinking about politics today.”How insurers keep the money-pump flowingMaximizing the Value of Art and Music in EducationFirms that Discriminate are More Likely to Go BustAs College Tuitions Rise, Scholarships Fail to Keep PaceIs Sustained 4 Percent Annual Real Growth Achievable?Getting Real About Paying For Trump's Tax PlanPromises and Price Tags: A Preliminary UpdateMoody’s: Clinton economy would create 10 million jobsThe End of Static Stretching to Improve Hip MobilityMark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s $3 billion effort aims to rid world of major diseases by end of centuryThese charts prove that the world is getting dramatically better, not worse“As this chart from American Enterprise Institute expert Mark Perry illustrates, global poverty levels have fallen from an astounding 94% in 1820 to just 9.6% in 2015, with the most dramatic fall coming in the years since 1970.This is a good to show your friend who can’t stop complaining that everything is getting worse.As World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim noted in the organization’s October report on the state of global poverty, which showed a global reduction in poverty of roughly 200 million people in the last four years alone:“This is the best story in the world today—these projections show us that we are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty.””Scientists are gushing too muchA Notable WomanWhy do people play chess again?