No excerpts here. What I can say to titillate your interest is that this talk features Descartes, Steve Jobs trash talk, conjecture about rethinking all of education, and the background on Maria Montessori.
“I created the xaringan package in late 2016, but didn’t mention the secret of xaringan::inf_mr() in public until the August of 2017. I knew it was a cool feature, and I use it all the time. I just want users to discover it slowly by themselves. I always feel highly motivated by the occasional ecstasy from individual users like Charles. This has been a sustainable source of power for me.”
“Huxley was also more broadly right about pleasure. Orwell wrote about a world which was sensually constrained, pinched, grey — that was one of the main respects in which he was channelling the spirit of the 1940s. Huxley looked ahead, and saw a future in which life was very pleasant — lullingly, deadeningly, numbly pleasant. Undemanding pleasures and unchallenging entertainments are central to the functioning of society. Sources of distraction play a vital role.”
Who is on your phone? Related to the above…
“In the case of the phone we tracked, six different entities had potential access to the phone’s data. T-Mobile shares location data with an aggregator called Zumigo, which shares information with Microbilt. Microbilt shared that data with a customer using its mobile phone tracking product. The bounty hunter then shared this information with a bail industry source, who shared it with Motherboard.”
Oracle of Omaha is king of the hill, not over it
“UNP currently has an enterprise value of $130bn and a market cap of $110bn. This represents 12.5x EV/EBITDA and 19x P/E. Those are some helpful figures that we can use to get to an approximation of market value for BNSF.
Applying similar numbers, we get to an Enterprise Value of $125bn and an equity value of $105bn for Berkshire´s railroad. Once again, Buffett paid $34bn, took out $31bn in dividends and is left with +$100bn in value…Good job Warren."