Mark Zuckerberg on Taking Risks and Finding Talented People

There’s an old saying that goes like this: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This, for sure, applies to investing. Legendary investor Monish Pabrai puts it a little more direct: he says that there is no shame in getting your investment ideas fr…

So we’ve been spending some time now thinking about the idea of a Fourier series, taking a periodic function and representing it as the sum of weighted cosines and sines. Some of you might say, “Well, how is this constant weighted cosine or sine?” Well, y…

Excuse me, what do you do for a living? I sell jets. No way! Yeah, sure do. That’s my showroom right there. You want to come in and see? Yeah, let’s go! Let’s go! A favorite saying of mine: time is money. Buy a jet! Here’s our showroom with a gigant…

Destin: Hey, it’s me, Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. Today, we’re going to hang out with the Thunderbirds of the US Air Force. We’re going to see if we can break the sound barrier. The temptation, when you’re making a video about yourself flyi…

You are a chicken. Yes, you. You look around and sometimes wonder why your owner takes such good care of you. At first, you’re not sure; you’re skeptical. What if he sends you to the slaughterhouse? You’ve never been there, but you know very well none of …

Bill Gates, the internet sensation. You might know him as the guy that jumped over a chair or the guy that has no idea what the price of groceries are. Or you might know him as the genius co-founder of Microsoft and the world’s seventh richest man, just b…