The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It | Wall Street Journal
Never understood how some people hate Excel so much. It is the missing link between calculator and database. As long as you understand its limitations and that of the users you're designing the spreadsheet for, it actually is a great tool. (October 5, 2018)

China’s Great Leap Backward | Foreign Policy
Asked myself if Xi already lost his Mandate of Heaven. Now I wonder if China as a whole has lost its heavenly mandate. Chinese citizens that travel abroad having to account for their time on an hour-by-hour basis? China turns increasingly autocratic. (October 15, 2018)

'Swipe right to sue’: Now you can file lawsuits the same way you find hookups on Tinder | The Washington Post
(October 16, 2018)

Opinion The Secret Lives of Central Bankers | The New York Times
First year at uni, I was genuinely interested in becoming a central banker. Slowly my interests shifted towards the nature of money itself. In my final year I visited the Dutch central bank and realized it was not for me. Guess I made the right choice. (October 20, 2018)

Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet | The Economist
(October 20, 2018)

Warby Parker Is Coming to a Suburban Mall Near You | Bloomberg
A book is just a book but clothes are part of your identity or whatever. Digital native merchants are finally growing up and opening brick and mortar stores. Landlords eager to help, offer short term leases, profit sharing plans and smaller stores. (October 22, 2018)

Joachim Ronneberg, Leader of Raid That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb, Dies at 99 | The New York Times
Only after the war Mr. Ronneberg learned just how vital his mission to destroy a Nazi heavy water plant was. Willing to lay down their lives and fully aware they would probably never return, the men, carrying cyanide capsules, succeeded against the odds. (October 22, 2018)

A Photo Appreciation of Libraries | The Atlantic
As a proud geek I love libraries. Yes these days everything is digital, but I was born in an age where the only way to unlock knowledge was your local library. Besides, any book that has illustrations is much better in print. (October 24, 2018)

Tributes pour in for Chinese literary giant Louis Cha ‘Jin Yong’, the ‘greatest epic writer of our time who embodied the martial arts spirit’ | South China Morning Post
(October 30, 2018)