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Notes on Udacity "remote team management" course

This are notes from Udacity remote team management, most of them are just a copy paste on the course itself. The course was nothing difficult. Could have been done in 10 min or less. They did expanded the topic for hours to analyze the challenges that remote working impose.  Tools for Connecting Remote Talent. Teams don’t have to be in the same time zone to effectively collaborate. You’ll want the right mix of tools that can support both synchronous and asynchronous interactions because chances are you won’t all be online at exactly the same time. It can also be helpful to facilitate face-to-face interactions to create more of a “watercooler vibe” with remote workers. Good communication isn’t just limited to chatting and meetings either. Inline comments and tracked feedback can serve as a constant brainstorming session. ·         Google Docs  for asynchronous collaboration without files having to be locally downloaded ·         Slack  for communication ·         Google Hangouts  

18) The evolution of a value investor with Jae Jun founder of Old School Value

From NeyTorres.com   Ney Torres:         [0:03] ... I met Jae when I was reading a book about value investing. I was looking for this very specific terminology. I found one of your articles. It led me to Old School value. I wanted to ask you. Can you tell me your story of how you started a website business? What did you learn about it? How did you start in investing? And specifically, how do you start value investing? Jae Jun:                [0:49] Okay, sure. Yeah, that's a lot of questions but I'll try to go through it one by one. So, the real sequence of that is I first got into investing. I was working at a job. I got my first 401k in the US. So, that's the retirement account. And then, the company was putting it automatically into a mutual fund. I just wanted to get a better idea of what the money was being invested into. [1:14] So, I was going through some articles and this and that, trying to read up. I got

Options and Futures with Jake Larmour

Ney Torres:         [0:02] Welcome everybody to the show! Today, we have a conversation with Jake Larmour. I met Jake in an event in California in December and we were just in a line and he's talking about options trading and derivative trading in a very deep level, so I'm very happy today because we're going to have a conversation about financial derivatives. Welcome, Jake. Jake Larmour:   [0:26] Thank you for having me out. I'm really excited to be here and excited to provide as much value to your listeners that I can Ney Torres:         [0:34] Thank you. So, can you tell us your story? How do you get into this world? Jake Larmour:   [0:40] Yeah, no problem. So, my journey started a few years ago back in 2015. I like how we met. We met in line at a seminar. I like to go to those, right, constantly trying to expand my understanding, learn new concepts. And there was a seminar put on by what was then branded as Rich Dad Education and Robert Kiyosaki, he's k