Leadership books

http://www.ceo.com/leadership_and_management/the-23-best-leadership-books-of-all-time/

Investing in Oil: How not to

Some have benefited and some got hurt by the precipitous fall in oil prices in the last few months. Oil is a commodity and it has its own cycles. It might be possible to bring some profits by contrary investing into oils rise.

Those who believe the oil prices are poised to increase and who are looking around to find the optimum investment vehicle, should be very careful in selecting the right vehicle. One of the easiest ways to get into speculation with oil prices is to purchase ETN's that follow the monthly future contracts, such as USO (United States Oil ETF). However, one needs to understand well that these products don't own physical OIL or owning them doesn't necessarily mean physically owning OIL or oil products. In fact, these follow near month future prices.

Following near month future prices doesn't guarantee being able to follow price of oil. In some cases, future contracts may get much more expensive compared to oil itself. Take a look at the table below that shows the monthly returns for  It shows monthly returns for USO since its initial offering. As you can see, it can't capture the amount of return from the crude oil. In my opinion, it's more of a speculation vehicle rather than an investment product.

Oil jumps as much as five percent from five-year low

Crude oil markets jumped as much as 5 percent on Monday, rebounding from five-year lows with their biggest daily gain since 2012, on fears that the high U.S. shale output blamed for the global oil glut may be shrinking.


Benchmark Brent crude oil settled up $2.39 at $72.54 a barrel, after a session peak at $72.73. It fell as much as $2.62 earlier to $67.53, a low since July 2009. The 3 percent gain on the day was Brent's largest since October 2012.

U.S. crude finished up $2.85 at $69 a barrel, after initially plumbing a five-year bottom at $63.72. The 4 percent rise was the largest one-day move up in U.S. crude since August 2012. U.S. crude continued to surge post-settlement, gaining almost 5 percent to $69.34 by 2015 GMT.

Brent and U.S. crude prices have fallen for five months in a row, the longest losing streak in oil since the 2008 financial crisis. Despite Monday's rebound, they are still down about 10 percent from the start of last week, before producer group OPEC decided on Thursday not to cut output despite oversupply worries.

Words from "How to Think Like Leonardo da vinci" Part Two / 1

From the book "How to Think Like Leonardo da vinci, Part Two / 1"

Unquenchable: Impossible to satisfy
In the first years of life, our minds are engaged in an unquenchable thirst for knowledge.

Attune: To bring into accord, harmony
Baby's every sense is attuned to exploring and learning

Confound: To throw into amaze, confuse
His math teacher was often confounded by Leonardo da Vinci's amazing skills

Insatiable: Impossible to satisfy
Leonardo's childlike sense of wonder and insatiable curiosity never abated.

Inquisitive: Eager to knowledge, intellectually curious
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inquisitive?s=t
He turned his passion into inquisitiveness

Inquiry: A seeking or request for truth, sorgu sorusturma

Rigor: The quality of being extremely accurate
Da Vinci studied everything with the same rigor
He performed layer upon layer of rigorous examination

How to save Iphone 5s battery life

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/10457092/IPhone-hidden-features-nine-ways-to-extend-the-battery-life-on-your-smartphone.html

Turn Off Location Services
iPhones and iPads use the inbuilt GPS for many functions, including Google maps. You may be surprised about how many apps also use the GPS but it eats up battery life.
You can turn off all Location Services or just turn it off for specific apps by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
You can also turn off GPS settings on Android phones which will improve your battery life.

Prevent Background App Refresh
Background App refresh allows apps to refresh their content in the background while you perform different tasks. It is a clever new function of iOS 7 that means that the apps download new content before you open them. It also eats away at your battery life.
You can disable the feature entirely or simply disable the apps that you do not want to continually refresh. Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh.

Fetch data manually
You can set your iPhone or iPad to check your email accounts less often. Data can be 'fetched' at specific intervals. The more frequently email or other data is fetched, the quicker your battery may drain.
To fetch new data manually, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Manually.
To increase the fetch interval, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Hourly. If you have a 'push' email account you can turn it off when you don't need it. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and set Push to Off.

Don't automatically update apps
In earlier iOS versions you had to manually update App updates but with iOS 7 they automatically update when new versions are released. It can be a drain on battery life so to manually update apps go to Settings > iTunes & App Store > Updates > and move the slider to off.


Auto-Lock iPhone and iPad
Always lock your iPad or iPhone when you aren’t using it. To lock, press the Sleep/Wake button. You can also set the Auto-Lock interval so your iPad will turn off more quickly after a period of inactivity.
The sooner the device goes to sleep the less battery it will drain. To set Auto-Lock, go to Settings > General > Auto-Lock and set the interval to a short time, such as 1 minute.

Disable notifications
On an Android, iPhone or iPad notifications use up battery life. In both you have to go into each app and disable the notifications individually.
Keep it cool
Whether you have an Android, iPhone or iPad exposing it to heat will degrade its battery life the most. Keep it out of the sun or warm areas.
Turn off vibration
Turning off the vibrating alerts on your iPhone, iPad or Android can help prolong your battery life. In IOS 7 you can find the option to turn off vibrating alerts in the 'Sounds menu'.

How to go to bed early

http://www.wikihow.com/Go-to-Bed-Early

1. Acknowledge it is late. For most of the people who go to bed late it is mostly a problem of mentality. You look at the clock and think "2:00 AM?". Oh, no problem, I've still got plenty of time". No, you don't. When you make it a habit to go to bed way past midnight, your idea of late becomes an increasingly later hour. So, the next time you look at the clock and see it's past 11:30 PM (or any time you'd consider 'early'), abandon everything you were doing at that time and start hurrying to go to bed. The first step in starting to go to bed early is redefining your idea of 'early' and 'late'.
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   Give yourself reasons for getting to bed earlier. One good incentive is recalling a time (or several) when your lateness in getting to bed had disastrous results: you overslept, didn't get enough sleep, became sick, etc. Also, if you're a habitual late-nighter (e.g. college student), this will give you a chance to see that rarest of natural phenomena: a sunrise! Staying up through the night to see the sunrise does not count!
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   Determine what time you need to wake up. "Well, most of the time I wake-up at 7:00 AM, but sometimes I wake-up at 6:00 AM to do homework" isn't a good answer. If you planned on waking up at 6:00 then you would think that going to bed an hour earlier would make up for it, but you wouldn't be tired at said bedtime, so you would lie in bed for an hour and only get 7 hours of sleep. Your wake-up time needs to be the same every day except for rare occasions. Weekends are not rare.
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   Subtract 8 hours from the time you wake up. Determine how long it actually takes you to fall asleep. Don't glance at the alarm clock constantly to test this, just think whether you lie in bed for what seems for hours, or does your head barely hit the pillow? If the first one is the case you should subtract one hour from the time you have. If your head barely hits the pillow you only need about five minutes in bed before your -8 hour time. If you're somewhere in between 30 minutes should be a safe amount of time to be in bed before you need to fall asleep.
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   Do something calming before bedtime. The computer may be calming but your brain naturally makes you sleepy when it is dark, so by staring at a screen you are keeping yourself alert and wide-awake for longer than you should. A shower is an excellent thing to do before bed. Make your activity a sort of habit. This helps.
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   Go to bed right when you start feeling tired. The best time to go to bed is when you can't stop yawning and feel the need to just close your eyes and lay your head down. If you force yourself to stay awake, after this stage is over, you'll have a slight headache because of tiredness, but stop feeling that urge to go to sleep, which makes you stay awake even more.
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   Be strict about your bedtime. Force yourself to turn off the computer and TV before bed. By turning off the computer (not the monitor) you would have to wait for it to reboot and normally that is enough to persuade you to get off the computer. Throw the remote for your TV across the room or onto the floor (gently). Getting up to turn on the TV hardly seems worth it, huh?
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   After you have been following a bed time for a week or so, if you are still tired or very unwilling to get up in the morning you may still owe yourself a few hours. Let yourself sleep way in on the weekend. Do this a few times and you will probably no longer feel the need to sleep in on the weekends. That's good. That means that you get enough sleep every night. If you keep wanting to get up earlier than your wake-up time then go to bed a little later. Some people need less sleep than others and you may no longer have to go to bed an hour early anymore because of your routine.
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   Reward yourself for your discipline. Treat yourself to a movie for every two weeks you successfully get to bed early. Notice how much better you feel in your day-to-day life, in school, or at your job. If you're getting somewhere around 8 hours of sleep per night, and at the right time, you'll probably notice a dramatic increase in your physical and mental health!

TIPS

• Ensure that you are setting reasonable goals; some people cannot get 8 hours of sleep.
• Get a friend to see to it that you go to bed on time. They can hide the remote to the TV, or turn off the computer, or turn off the light where you are reading. They can also do this for themselves to prevent keeping you awake. Don't do this if you are irritable.
• Make sure you don't use the snooze button. Force yourself to literally jump out of bed every morning, even do a few jumping jacks to get the blood flowing.
• If you don't go to bed on time and get enough sleep you may suffer from poor sleep quality.
• Children may require extra sleep. Teens who have a big test the next day will do better if they go to bed early instead of staying up late to study.
• Feeling constantly tired or regularly waking up early can both be symptoms of depression. If you are worried that this may be the case for you, consult your doctor or a therapist/counselor.
• If you have a Sleep Disorder such as Insomnia, DSPS, etc. it is best to consult a doctor or specialist and research other methods like Light Therapy, and Chronotherapy, which may be used in addition to these.
• Try reading a book for a bit, if you can't fall asleep, it will make you tired.

Partners, Resources, and Strategies

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1716.html