Fall Mountains, Just Don’t fall on me!

For some reason , I have never come across anyone in my friends circle/my faculty , who have mentioned this book.I have read a lot of books on option pricing , volatility , but none , NONE, so far is any where close to this beautiful book by Riccardo Rebonato. It is so gripping(well gripping might sound far fetched for a book on options, but that’s what it is) right from the first page of the book.

Ambient - Design at its best _Data doesn’t have to be dry. We’re used to seeing online information delivered as boring numbers, dense charts, or incomprehensible tables. This is dramatically different from the way we think about the analog world. We know if the pond is frozen from the color of the water. We can tell the status of the gas in our car by glancing at a simple gauge. The smile on a friend’s face is all we need to know a lot of complicated data about whether we’re doing something right or not.

Via Seth(Flipping the Funnel): One of the most profitable small businesses in Queens, NY, is a little Thai restaurant named after its owner. Mrs.Sripraphai sells amazing Thai food. With no advertising, they’ve managed to keep the place packed, night after night. The buzz about the restaurant got so loud that the all-powerful New York Times could no longer ignore the place—even though it’s not in Manhattan. A two-star review (almost unheard of for a restaurant like this) led to long lines—even after the restaurant doubled in size.