Business Insider's Best Books of 2013

Wall Street's 2013 Readling List

Glavine and Maddux

Two of the best pitchers of all time, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, are up for Hall of Fame induction this year. ESPN has a great article that mentions the dedication each had to perfecting their craft. Traders, indeed any professionals, can learn a lot from them.

Elon Musk Interview @ Khan Academy

Warren Buffett attributes his success to choosing the right heroes. There aren't many people who better qualify as modern day heroes than Musk and Khan, so this conversation is a must watch.

Buffett's Appearance on CNBC 10/16/2013

Valuewalk.com has compiled segments of Buffett on CNBC this morning. The main takeaways are the stock market is not overly valued at this level (SP 1700), and that Congress would be insane to ruin the faith of the world in US debt, which has taken 237 years to build.

Scientific Data Has Become So Complex, We Have to Invent New Math to Deal With It

Big Data's increasingly complexity is making it necessary for a "Newtonian revolution, on par with the 17th century invention of calculus". The article in Wired presents some of the most promising mathematical developments to help us better analyze the flood of information.

Ray Dalio on How The Economy Works

Agenda: Thursday, Sept 25th 2013

Economic Calendar : GDP 6:30am - Jobless Claims 6:30am (MST)

Deadlines
Intro to Programming - Week 6 Videos, Homework, Assignment - Monday Sep 30th - 3 days
Web Intelligence and Big Data - Week 4 Videos and Homework - Thursday Oct 3rd - 7 days
Intro to Financial Accounting - Week 1 & 2 videos, 2 Homework - Monday Sept 30th - 3 days
Computing for Data Analysis - Week 1 complete

Books
The Essays of Warren Buffett - 30 pgs remaining in first reading.
How to Read a Book - Review and summarize
Confidence - Review and summarize
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist - Begin

Agenda
Morning

1. Finish first reading of The Essays of Warren Buffett
2. Complete videos and homework for Web Intelligence and Big Data

Afternoon

1. Complete videos, homework, assignment for Intro to Programming.
2. Review and summarize Confidence
3. P90x

Night

1. Finish tile cuts for sink installation
2. Begin Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein