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 I read about the vaccines from Anna Rothschild.  In this article she talks and creates videos showing the history of vaccines and also provides meaningful facts and figures regarding vaccine and safety. Anna Rothschild, while not stating that she may be related to the actual Rothschilds, has devoted her career to reporting on biology and heath risks to the public.  She has a background at NYU and Brown and has a strong education path within Biology and Vaccines.  The article talks about different facts regarding vaccines. Some of them relate to how vaccines started, while others point to the advancement of vaccines throughout the years. The article is relatively short but the true value is gained from the video where much more information is talked about there.  I have written about each video in depth below. The first video talks about the history of vaccines and goes into a deep dive of the start of them and the impact that it had on the American people but a...

 When we are younger we are all inherently selfish.  Even now in college we are fixated on our path, what can we do to advance ourselves.  This leads me in a weird predicament. At what point is the best thing for others focusing on ourself?  This sentence makes no sense until I provide some context.  I feel like everything when you are young is like putting money in a bank that will all pay off. You do well in middle school which pays into a good high school and then into a good college. Even in college the goal is to do well so that you can get a good job and a great career path.  This is all selfish nature, but theoretically if you are super successful it all should work out.  The exponential path would put you on a higher spot than if you weren't selfish.  In a way this plan is a way that being selfish early on will allow you to have a greater impact when you are older and be more self less.  This whole idea comes from the question: who di...

I wanted to do this as a precursor to the world we imagine.  I read the passage and that then inspired my random post.  Just because it made me realize the importance of mentorship.  So many things are dependent on how we are raised and grow up.  The way we think, act, and speak are all determined by our environment and what we were told was write and wrong.  This was even more prevalent before the internet.  This reminds me of this mma fighter that grew up to horrible racist parents.  They taught them their racist ways, and that was all he knew.  He didnt know anything else.  It wasnt until he came out of that racist town that he realized how horrible all of that really was.  While this is an isolated instance I do think about how important this really is.  I cant imagine where I would be without the guidance of my parents and family.   This is especially important because of how much I look up to my dad and mom.  My...

  Feel Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You , by Ali Abdaal.  This is my first self help book and I didn't know what to expect.  I have always stayed away from these books as I feel like they would only be bs motivation and that I would rather do other things with my time.  I went into this book with that exact mentality.  I feel like with enough motivation to do something you can just get it done, and you dont need books like this.  I have found this motivation from mainly stress and feeling that I need to do it.  I was wondering if this book would change this or give me a new perspective.   I really like what it had to say about mindset.  This was one of the big takeaways that I got from the book.  The fact that mindset is where productivity comes from.  This overall theme was perfectly summarized in the quote:  “With this mindset shift – from ‘have to’ to ‘choose to” I think that this mindset shift i...

To: Clark Hansen, CEO of AMDP From: Billy Nutt, Senior Research & Development Analyst and Employee of the Month  Date: March 5th, 2023  Subject: How to get Free Beer ___________________________________________________________________ I wanted to follow up on ou r last meeting regarding sustainable companies for the fund. We have a multitude of small-cap businesses, but a larger company with equal growth potential would balance out the portfolio.  Heineken is a large alcohol company based in Amsterdam.  It shows strong growth potential , a focus on the environment, and would be a strong investment for the fund. I will first go over the sustainability guidelines that are at the forefront of our firm.  Then give you a brief background and insight into where Heineken is headed. I will provide some expert commentary and round it off with an investment summary.   AMDP Investment Criteria I wanted to illuminate some of the investment criteria AMDP hol...

 This passage brings me back to high school as this idea of this cycle was very apparent.  Everything was very structured with school, job, extracurriculars, and sports. This was extremely repetitive as every week was the same.  Weekends were booked up with only a small semblance of free time, haunted by the week ahead where the cycle restarts.  Another interesting point that I got out of the article was really looking back and wondering why we have this week, made up by us, and only created to organize it.  It is very funny to me how our whole idea of how we organize our lives is from one person who decided that it should be based upon this way.  A year makes sense, but a week has no bearing or reason on why it is the way it is.  I also think that that a big proponent of the reason for the 7 day week is religion.  It is funny how much of our traditions are rooted in religion.  Religion used to play a larger role in peoples lives then it is n...