First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 8, 2012

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

Open-book 80

Open-book Simon Books Review 80

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Jacks of Simon Fraser University reviewed this evidence a few years ago along with before-and-after data from when futures trading in various commodities started , he still concluded that "futures markets are systematically associated with lower levels of commodity price volatility." A 1973 followup , however, was inconclusive.

Cost 8

Cost Fraser Hedge Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Simon Morton launched Eyeful Presentations in 2004, with a simple goal of creating better, more effective business presentations that would engage audiences and actually get presenters results and success. Now it’s your turn … Learn more about the art of killer presentations at GoToMeeting. About the Author.

Audience 8

Audience Short-term Long-term Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8