Greycourt: Fifteen on Friday #508

Happy Friday –

Hope the weekend treats you well. There are a few podcast episodes interspersed below, several have transcripts, but several are audio only.

There are ~310 million smart phone users in the US, but only about 100 million of those are listening to podcasts. I’m going to guess the Fifteen on Friday readership skews above average here, but in case you are a first timer or infrequent listener – find the Podcasts app on your iPhone and jump in, the water’s fine.

Cheers,

David

Featured Articles:

RH – These 38 Reading Rules Changed My Life
Time – Why It Takes Forever to Get a Doctor’s Appointment
Rich Roll – Arthur Brooks – Build the Life You Want. Brooks joins Rich to discuss his new book. “In this conversation, we discuss what happiness is and isn’t, how to experience more of it, and the concrete steps and practical solutions you can adopt to build a better blueprint for a more fulfilling future.”
CWT – Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One’s Potential A fascinating interview with the creator of the Barkley Marathon, arguably the hardest running race ever.
Twitter – Casual Presidents – Another fun one from an AI image generator – meet the Streetwear Presidents

Business / Markets:

NYT – Billionaire Ray Dalio Pushes for Return to Hedge Fund in Succession Clash Mr. Dalio retired from Bridgewater last year. But his successors at the world’s biggest hedge fund are discovering it’s not easy to operate with the firm’s founder looming over them.
WSJ – American Labor’s Real Problem: It Isn’t Productive Enough Factory workers want lots more pay and fewer hours, but that’s hard to justify when U.S. manufacturers are losing ground
JC – Weekly Chart Review A deep dive look at the average investor allocation to equities
Forbes – Prince William and Kate Middleton on the hunt for royal CEO Kensington Palace has posted a job advert, looking for a CEO to, among other things, ‘strengthen Household culture’.
WSJ – Job Security Isn’t Enough to Keep Many Accountants From Quitting Auditors and tax accountants are moving on—or considering quitting the profession—citing other available options at a time of an already widening shortage

Others…

NYP – How NYC’s fine-dining elite got pranked by Gen Zer’s fake steakhouse — complete with milk servers, ‘celebs,’ and wedding proposal – A hilarious bit of performance art – After a group of friends decided to post their home kitchen on Google as a steak chophouse, they created one of NYC’s hardest to get reservations with a waiting list of over 2,000.
NYP – Scientists discover how brain cells die in Alzheimer’s in breakthrough study
Drake’s – Lessons in Elegance The general reality is that clothes are like jokes, they’re indications of social inclusion. We all invent ourselves, but in doing so can’t help but identifying ourselves with others. In other words, we all want to be individuals, but also a member of the group too.
WSJ – Deion Sanders Isn’t Just a Winning Coach. He’s a Merch Machine. Well the record isn’t as good after last weekend….‘If you look good, you feel good,’ according to Coach Prime
How I Built This – Orgain – Andrew Abraham – Credit MW – A life-threatening diagnosis changed the course of Andrew Abraham’s career and led him to found some of the most popular nutritional drinks and powders on the market.