This month we have The Stanford University Monthly Magazine for you to read if you didn’t read it already.
Of particular interest I think is the piece Can They Ever Catch Up ? (Rebecca Beyer) about the millennials who graduated around the Recession who are still unable to buy a home, get a decent job, and have to survive on “catch-as-catch-can” gigs.
Did you know Stanford had an Art of Living free course from 8 years ago still up on their Vimeo Feed ?
1 – "Introduction to The Art of Living" from Stanford Humanities on Vimeo.
Books
I’m sure everyone reading this blog has read The Prince by Nicollo Machiavelli
What about Fear and Trembling by Sören Kierkegaard
or
The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
” Maimonides (1120-1190) was a brilliant Hispanic Jewish scholar who lived in Spain and Egypt in the 12th century. In addition to being a philosopher, Maimonides also worked as a medical doctor. The Guide for the Perplexed, originally written in Arabic, and soon translated into Hebrew and widely read, is his best known work. The framing story is that it is a letter written to one of his students, to prepare him to understand the background of the Merkabah (the Chariot of Ezekiel) narrative. In the course of this, Maimonides delves into the most difficult questions of theology and reality itself, many of which are still controversial today. Did the universe have a beginning? Will it ever end? What is the nature of evil? Does the complexity of organic life imply some kind of rational design? “
Blog post from the VC world
As a Seed Investor, Do I Want Softbank to Invest In My Best Companies Or Not? by Hunter Walk, partner at Homebrew