Wednesday Post: mafia

Florilegium: literally meaning “a gathering of flowers” in Latin. In the Middle Ages, this was a book that compiled the finest, smartest extracts and quotes from various writings.

Cool things I found this week…

I. This personal design portfolio site that carefully documents the process of each work

II. AND this personal blog website that documents their friends stories.

I love everything about this. Not just the design but the approach, the realisation that our most valuable knowledge is not our own but in our friends, this person’s mindset is incredible.

III. Paper visualising overnight return puzzle

If you buy Micron Technology at the close every day and immediately sell at the open the next day, over decades you’d get a 138,330,342% return. But if you buy at the open every day and sell at the close the same day, your investment would ultimately lose almost everything down -99.92%.

Link to paper