Five Links in October

Five reading links to make you think

Here are five links for October 2020…

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months by Rutger Bregman
Turns out that when boys were really shipwrecked, they rose to the occasion and cooperated.

A Manual For the Low-EQ CEO by Auren Hoffman
Most successful leaders that don’t have high EQ tend to have off-the-charts IQ.  But what if you are a low-EQ leader whose SAT score was under 1590?  
This post is a self-help manual for those low-EQ leaders.

The Consequential Last Act of Leon Czolgosz by Susan Berfeld
Five Links readers may know that I have a mild obsession with President William McKinley.  This is the story of McKinley’s assassin.

Everything You Need to Know About Napoleon Bonaparte by Dormin
A fantastic book review of Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts.

It’s time to agree on a universal location standard by Ross Epstein
"The more you think about it, the more you realize that location data is like an impressionist painting: What looks cohesive from afar is actually extremely chaotic up close.”  Enter Placekey.

Bonus: Fargo - worth watching all four seasons of this TV show
And watch the movie too!

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Books:

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser (5/5)

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel (4/5)
HT Morgan Housel

Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez (3/5)
HT Tod Sacerdoti

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