Intercept Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ICPT) is a small drug development company based in San Diego, CA. The company’s IPO was in October 2012 at close to $20/share, and the company enjoyed steady share price increase for 14 months. On January 8th of this year (2014) the per share price was a healthy $72. Then the company announced… Continue reading From IPO to $400/share in Less Than 18 Months – Intercept Pharmaceuticals
I love TED talks, and am very pleased to see so much great information shared for free on the Internet. Even more pleasing to me is that there are a lot of people out there that view and “like” this great content, which means not everyone is spending their time with Honey Boo Boo or… Continue reading The Reality of the Corporate Economy
The Drunkard’s Walk, How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow Although not presented as such, this book turns out to be a layman’s reading of the history of probability and statistics. It includes high-level historical accounts, often centered on personalities, and conspicuously avoids a single mathematical equation, to the detriment of clarity in some… Continue reading The Drunkard’s Walk
I’ve often thought what a city built around a single business with a single set of core values might look like, and how that society would function differently from the organically-grown societies of today’s world. I recently saw this idea conceptualized by Alfred Twu here, although I would expand to add some agriculture, power generation, waste treatment,… Continue reading The City that Business Built
Here are some topics to flex your idea muscle around: Ways to earn money from home Ways to earn money without a “job” Chapters in your autobiography Countries to live in for a month with only a $3,000 budget Ways to get to work without owning a car 10-50 page e-book topics you could write… Continue reading Ways to Exercise Your Idea Muscle
From IMDB: The Shawshank Redemption
Short video here. Highlights: “accelerated learning is important to me… [I learned] where I could exert my control, or shape my own destiny was through learning… I’ve seen just ridiculous stuff, and it doesn’t require that you have some special gift, it requires that you find a special toolkit, and all that’s related to accelerated learning”… Continue reading Tim Ferriss on Ideas
We’ve all heard of a fast – that is when you don’t eat for a certain number of days, typically for religious reasons. People sometimes choose to “fast” from alcohol, caffeine, sugar, television, or any number of other things. The purpose of this fast is to avoid media consumption for 7 days. Media consumption will… Continue reading The 7-Day Media Fast!
A list of ways you can improve your emotional health: Banish negative people – a sad fact about the world we live in is there will always be negative people. These are people who are hurt or scared and are not handling their emotions in a productive way. They typically redirect negative emotions in nonproductive… Continue reading Ways to Improve Your Emotional Health
Books are typically written based on one or two new concepts or new ways of looking at existing concepts. These could probably be conveyed in fewer than 100 pages and much fewer pages in most cases. The book is “filled out” to 200 or more pages so that it can be sold at the “sweet-spot”… Continue reading The Problem with Reading Books
