Breathing Beijing’s air is the equivalent of smoking 40 cigarettes a day

If you follow your effort you may just get to your dreams

How companies/apps hook you and how to avoid it

Fighting against participation trophies

“Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal” in American football

3-15997 is not bad, right?

The End of Asymmetric Information: Various monitoring and commitment devices that are leading to a decrease in asymmetric information in business dealings. This leads to a decline in moral hazard situations, less principal-agent asymmetry, and an increase in the use of escrow systems.

Recommended Reading in Computer Systems: Books about computer security, digital forensics, incident response, malware analysis, and reverse engineering, and other related topics.

Final Four Ticket Forecast: When is the best time to buy Final Four tickets? Maria and I won the lottery to get tickets straight from the NCAA in 2013 and 2014. This year, with the Final Four so close in Indianapolis, we were shut out. We’re still deciding how to navigate the secondary market to get tickets at a reasonable price. If you go to the game, you might see us on the streets of Indy trying to scalp tickets. One strategy is to try to buy tickets from fans of the 2 losing teams after Saturday’s semi-final. Online, they are crazy expensive.

5 Tragic Reasons Why the World’s Largest Theme Park Stands Abandoned in Ohio: I don’t think I’ve posted this yet. Such a sad, but fascinating, story.

I added a blog roll page. Check it out here. Find your two links for this Tuesday among those options.

Am I missing any good blogs? Let me know.

NBA Home Court Advantage in Decline (gated): NBA home teams enjoying just a 2.2 point home court bump this season, by far the lowest in decades. Too many three point shots taking the effect of the referee out of the game? Not forcing them to call fouls?

Raising the Brow: Notes about Anthony Davis’ improved jump shot and awesome efficiency numbers this season. Interesting throughout.

10 tips for successfully working from home: It’s always harder than expected. So many distractions. Try to keep boundaries.

Hilarious Kobe Bryant “Let It Go” Parody:

Let it tank, let it tank. Get a pick, hopefully top 5. Great cameo at the end.

The Conventional Wisdom on Oil is Always Wrong: Interesting piece about oil in the 2000’s. The U.S. is on track to pass Saudi Arabia in crude oil production.

Cherry Picking Probably Won’t Work in the NBA: But teams should definitely try it occasionally. I’d like to see a team that loses the ball and has a player down on the offensive end leave that player on offense as a cherry-picker instead of trying to catch up to the 5 on 4 break. I feel like there is more value in that than in being back late on defense, especially in the fast-moving NBA.

Of Course You Hear What I Hear: Yeah, there’s a lot of it, but don’t you still love Christmas music?

Pennies are Still Useless and Nickels now cost 8 cents to make. Ridiculous. Ban them both.

How Bourbon is made:

Sounds like beer for the first few steps.

A Man’s Primer on Rum: Part of the reason America is not West Britain. Not just for pirates nowadays. Rum Old Fashioned is recommended.