Linkfest: February 08, 2018

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What I am reading today

Dubai Real Estate Not As Crazy For Crypto As People Think (BRIC Breaker)
It's All About Timing: How Nonprofits Can Increase Charitable Donations (Knowledge@Wharton)


Galaxy Surfactants: A Wealth Creation Story (Alpha Ideas)
Yield Curve Inversions Aren't Great For Stocks (A Wealth of Common Sense)
The challenge with health insurance model to universal health coverage (Gulzar Natarajan: Urbanomics)
a16z Podcast: When Is VR's iPhone Moment? (Andreesson Horowitz)
Falling US shares tell us only that investors were too excited in January (Spectator: Martin Vander Weyer)
The Brewery Boom (The Urbanophile)
Why Google's Bosses Became 'Unpumped' About Uber (NYT Technology)
How to be full time X OR retire (Views on Life & on Equity Investing)

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