Charlie Munger’s first marriage ended in divorce after eight years; his second endured for 54 years until Nancy Barry Munger’s death in 2010. But his most famous partnership is with Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, where Munger has served as vice chairman since 1978.
Dear Billionaire,
Warren Buffett is a famously voracious reader, allegedly devouring up to 500 pages of information a day. According to his biographer Alice Schroeder, he starts the workday with a stack of newspapers, magazines, and newsletters before moving on to daily and monthly reports from the companies he owns and annual reports from companies he doesn’t own but finds intriguing for some reason.
Ted Rath’s official title on the Los Angeles Rams staff roster is director of strength training and performance. But his job on game days sounds way more fun: to follow his boss around and discreetly shove him back into place when he steps out of line.
In 2017, organizational psychologist Samuel West established the Museum of Failure in his adopted home of Sweden to house his collection of flops and failed products. Its initial run in Helsingborg, Sweden, drew worldwide attention, and it now travels the globe as a pop-up museum.
Colgate-Palmolive’s newest product, a toothpaste called Colgate Total SF, rolled out this week with a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign that includes a celebrity-studded commercial that will air during Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Wharton professor Adam Grant has long advocated for a shorter work week than the 40-hour minimum most professionals have now.
For more than 60 years, every known shark attack against humans has been recorded in a database known as the International Shark Attack File. This year, scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, where the database is housed, noticed a striking change: a sharp and sudden decrease in shark attacks around the world.
On Sunday, the United Arab Emirates held an awards ceremony for people credited with advancing the country’s goals toward gender balance.
Former New York City mayor and perennial potential US presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has identified something bigger than his ambitions or bank account: the need to defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election.
In an interview with The Cut on Tuesdays podcast, Serial podcast co-creator Sarah Koenig revealed the Achilles’ heel of her otherwise admirable journalism career: time management.
Three-quarters of US workers are also caregivers for at least one dependent person, be it a child, an elderly relative, or an ill spouse. It’s no secret that balancing work and care can be taxing: According to a new report from Harvard Business School, 80% of workers say the time and energy their caregiving responsibilities demand affect their performance at work.
The word “mansplaining” has been with us since 2008, when aggrieved internet commenters started using the term to refer to blowhardy trolls. Last year, the Oxford English Dictionary officially recognized the term, defining mansplaining as “to explain (something) needlessly, overbearingly, or condescendingly, esp. (typically when addressing a woman) in a manner thought to reveal a patronizing or chauvinistic attitude.”
It can be quite fashionable to talk trash on small talk. I’m an introvert, one might say when declining an invitation to a networking event or dinner party. Or, I have no time for idle chitchat.
In the late 1960s, frustrated by a string of rejections from tenure-track academic positions, educational psychologist Bernice Sandler began researching sex discrimination in higher education.
There is no verse dedicated to a brother or sister shark in the megaviral children’s song “Baby Shark.” If the titular shark is a sand tiger shark, that may be because the baby shark will have devoured almost all of its siblings in the womb, ensuring its sole access to prenatal nutrition (and top billing in any subsequent animated music videos).
The picturesque northeastern US state of Vermont attracted worldwide headlines last year when it announced that it would start paying remote workers from elsewhere in the country to relocate there. Details at the time were sparse, but on Jan. 1 the Remote Worker Grant Program officially opened for business—with a few changes since the initial announcement.
Every year since she was old enough to understand the concept of time, my eldest child—who now is 7—has asked to stay up until midnight on New Year’s Eve. Every year, I say yes. And every year, I am lying.
There were more than 30.3 billion searches in 2018 on Pornhub, the world’s largest porn search engine. Last year, the site transmitted an amount of data that surpassed the equivalent of the entire contents of the New York Public Library’s 50 million books; this year, more than 1 million hours of new content were uploaded to the site. People watch a lot of online porn. A lot.
The most meaningful changes we make in a year often bear no resemblance to the grandiose resolutions we made at the year’s start. We don’t break that bad habit or tackle that big challenge we swore we would as last year’s ball dropped; we end the year in the same job or home or personal rut in which we began it.
The perfect guide to understanding how an idea traveled in 2018—the Dante, if you will, of the year, navigating the circles of the internet’s underworld—is a dragon princess named Bowsette.
If your idea of a perfect holiday is exchanging presents with your loved ones, discovering that you have all gifted one another books, and then retiring immediately to separate corners to read those books in companionable silence, then you should consider celebrating Christmas in Iceland—or at least in Icelandic style.
Failure occupies a curious place in the post-TED talk landscape. Often it takes the form of a neatly packaged anecdote to serve as contrast to the glittering achievements that followed. Less acknowledged is failure in situ—the disappointments we live with as we muddle along in careers that may never soar high enough to make our failures look like valleys instead of long, unending plains.
Nothing stops the Spanish Christmas lottery.
