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I’m writing a document on how young people like us use technology (cell phones, TV, Tivo, MP3s, etc), and I want to get comments from everybody before I send it out to VCs, entrepreneurs, and a bunch of other people.
If you use a cellphone, TV, etc, please help me fill in the gaps!
Go here: http://yellowpages.pbwiki.com (password is “share”)
MP3’s are a spectacular way to add educational enrichment to a busy lifestyle. With the amount of educational podcasts, college lectures and tech news/commentary, there is no good reason not to be always learning. Between portable players and in-dash units, I personally manage to add about 1 hour a day of educational content to my life!
after taking a course in artificial neural networks, and then learning about genetic algorithms and so forth, i thought i’d try my hand at doing day trading based on automated predictive trading systems which used forecasting/optimization methods wall street probably doesn’t know about, the assumption being that there are short-term market inefficiencies one might exploit.
well, i still think it’s doable, but it’s really god damn hard, probably as hard as doing a thorough job of fundamental analysis for a buy-and-hold strategy on equities.
thus, when i get out of college, i’m planning on just putting most of whatever money i have into government bonds and the rest into an index fund. like 70-30, respectively.
i give up trying to be a mad scientist who gets one over on full-time investment professionals and day traders.
hey, don’t forget that the responses you’ll get on your wiki aren’t going to be representative of *all* young people! I’d venture to say that the demographic that reads your blog vs. the typical 16-yr old teenie bopper is substantially different!
I'm the New York Times best-selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. I co-founded PBwiki and graduated from Stanford.
