Excerpt: Do more by working less from Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More by Morten T. Hansen. (WSJ)
Quote of the Day
"Giving yourself some time each to think, reflect, and even check out for a while can be time well spent if it makes you more productive and efficient when you’re on the job."
(Ben Carlson)
Markets
- Josh Brown, "Markets are people. The future actions of people cannot be determined in advance with anything even approaching precision." (thereformedbroker.com)
- The periodic table of commodity returns, 2017 edition. (visualcapitalist.com)
Shiny stuff
- Millennials are not buying the diamond industry's hype. (bloomberg.com)
- Platinum wants rebrand itself as a precious metal. (wsj.com)
Crypto
- The SEC is in no hurry to approve Bitcoin ETFs. (wsj.com)
- Pump-and-dump schemes are common in ICO land. (buzzfeed.com)
- Trading cryptocurrencies? Don't forget to pay your taxes. (nytimes.com)
- Why Bitcoin isn't 'digital gold.' (ft.com)
Finance
- Yahoo Finance is launching a new savings app, Tanda. (qz.com)
- Mortgage rates are at 9-month highs. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The new tax law reduces the scope of muni bond refundings. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Economy
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Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: time efficiency. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: something lost. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Dopamine hits and the power of defaults. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Our book link round-up from January 2018 including endorsements of Ray Dalio's "Principles: Life and Work." (abnormalreturns.com)
