Scaling Property of Randomness

I really enjoyed the book Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb, and I came upon many interesting statements about randomness in markets, the most interesting one being the scaling property of randomness.

In the stock market, the general direction that stocks move in are for a reason, but the second or millisecond deviations that stocks have can be mostly attributed to noise or randomness. As Taleb did in his book, let’s take a stock that...

Path

Path is a mobile-only social network for your closest friends. It provides the basics of a social network (messaging, news feed, picture/video posting, location check-ins, status updates, and “friending” of people). But, because it is more intimate than a larger social network (ex. Facebook), it has become a much richer and detailed way to document my life.

Things I Love Path is known for its design. Path’s best design elements are...

My Favorite Books of 2014

I made a lot of time to read in 2014. Here were my favorite books:

• Hatching Twitter — Incredible read about the dysfunctional founding team of Twitter. I couldn’t put it down…definitely a page turner
• The Rosie Project — Fictional book about a nerdy guy who tries to find love by giving out surveys to bachelorettes. He tries to apply the scientific method to love and fails, but in the process, finds...