Sometimes I pick up a book and its meaningless; another time, the same book appears to be the answer to all of my problems. Time isn't a constant, Hence,I have to be ready for its content. Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning occurred at such an opportune moment. My interest in the process of learning, be it University-learning or general ( Read more... )

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War of the World
by Niall FergusonA friend recommended the book already some years ago and I even bought it soon afterwards. But that was it. I started it several times but could never finish even the introduction. But not because it was boring. I never felt like I had the time to value the information on the more then +700 pages of fine print on ( Read more... )

Finances are a scary topic, which is seldom understood. I once thought that by studying economics I would be able to work out how to handle money. Well, I was still young and innocent, but some years and many stupid decisions later I realized that studying economics leads to exactly one thing in my case. I’m able to calculate exactly how much the ( Read more... )