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Yahoo
28-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
What 6 Citadel Securities leaders are reading (or listening to) this summer
A recent newsletter from Citadel Securities included six executives' beach recommendations. Their suggestions get philosophical, ranging from historical deep-dives to the journey of the cell. Here's their chosen media, which includes books, a podcast, and even a YouTube series. For some Citadel Securities leaders, fun in the sun means getting philosophical. A recent newsletter from Ken Griffin's trading firm, which is behind nearly a quarter of all US stock trades, included six executives' beach reads and listens. Their recommendations appeal to a range of potential beachgoers, including everything from diet advice to a 1927 classic to a YouTube series that explains egg freezing. Here are six Citadel Securities executives' summer media recommendations. The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future Matt Culek, the chief operating officer, recommended the book by Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey to anyone who thinks that AI will transform business and daily life — so, basically, everyone. He called it a "compelling account of OpenAI's founding, Altman's leadership, and the fierce competition among leading AI firms." The book, published in May, tracks OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's journey from his childhood in St. Louis, his time at startups, his temporary ouster at OpenAI, and his current leadership. It's based on more than 200 interviews and has 3.97 stars on Goodreads. The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life Chief Technology Officer Josh Woods said that the 2015 book is "as informative as it is visually stunning." Written by the writer and lecturer Jack Challoner, "The Cell" chronicles scientific breakthroughs around life's basic unit, tracking the evolutionary journey from single- to multi-celled organisms. On Goodreads, the book has 4.37 stars. Decisive Moments in History: Twelve Historical Miniatures Shyam Rajan, the global head of fixed income, suggested Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's 1927 classic, which was originally published in German. According to Rajan, the book "thoughtfully captures the catalysts that changed the trajectory of history ranging from the fall of Constantinople to the discovery of the Pacific Ocean." Other vignettes include an affair between a 74-year-old and a 19-year-old, and the story of a man who legally owned a good portion of California. The book has a 4.24 rating on Goodreads. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease It seems like the summer of health for Alex DiLeonardo, the company's chief people officer, who recommended the "eye opening" book about how to prevent chronic illness through nutrition. "Our colleagues take the same optimizing lens to their life that we take to the market," DiLeonardo wrote in his suggestion. Published in 2015 by American physician Michael Greger , "How Not to Die" examines the top 15 causes of prominent diseases. It has 4.42 stars on Goodreads and includes a checklist of the 12 foods Greger thinks we should eat daily. Wind of Change: Did the CIA write a power ballad that ended the Cold War? Dane Skillrud, COO of systematic equities & FICC, recommended a podcast instead of a book. The eight-part miniseries from 2020 is hosted by New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe and follows his investigation into whether the CIA wrote the song "Wind of Change" by Scorpion, a German rock band. According to rumors, the CIA wrote the 1990s hit to impact the fall of the USSR. "It's a useful reminder of the importance and power of new ideas, music, and language," Skillrud wrote in his recommendation. The series has 4.8 stars on Spotify. Huge if True: An optimistic show about using science and technology to make the future better For the COO of technology and low latency, Jeff Maurone, summer media means YouTube. He recommended video journalist Cleo Abram's series on the future of technology, saying that "she is a tremendous storyteller who helps me navigate how technology and AI are changing our world." Recent episodes focus on everything from DNA editing to getting sucked into a black hole to egg freezing to interviews with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read the original article on Business Insider
Business Insider
28-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
From Sam Altman to a CIA power ballad: What 6 Citadel Securities leaders are reading (or listening to) this summer
For some Citadel Securities leaders, fun in the sun means getting philosophical. A recent newsletter from Ken Griffin 's trading firm, which is behind nearly a quarter of all US stock trades, included six executives' beach reads and listens. Their recommendations appeal to a range of potential beachgoers, including everything from diet advice to a 1927 classic to a YouTube series that explains egg freezing. Here are six Citadel Securities executives' summer media recommendations. The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future Matt Culek, the chief operating officer, recommended the book by Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey to anyone who thinks that AI will transform business and daily life — so, basically, everyone. He called it a "compelling account of OpenAI's founding, Altman's leadership, and the fierce competition among leading AI firms." The book, published in May, tracks OpenAI CEO Sam Altman 's journey from his childhood in St. Louis, his time at startups, his temporary ouster at OpenAI, and his current leadership. It's based on more than 200 interviews and has 3.97 stars on Goodreads. The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life Chief Technology Officer Josh Woods said that the 2015 book is "as informative as it is visually stunning." Written by the writer and lecturer Jack Challoner, "The Cell" chronicles scientific breakthroughs around life's basic unit, tracking the evolutionary journey from single- to multi-celled organisms. On Goodreads, the book has 4.37 stars. Decisive Moments in History: Twelve Historical Miniatures Shyam Rajan, the global head of fixed income, suggested Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's 1927 classic, which was originally published in German. According to Rajan, the book "thoughtfully captures the catalysts that changed the trajectory of history ranging from the fall of Constantinople to the discovery of the Pacific Ocean." Other vignettes include an affair between a 74-year-old and a 19-year-old, and the story of a man who legally owned a good portion of California. The book has a 4.24 rating on Goodreads. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease It seems like the summer of health for Alex DiLeonardo, the company's chief people officer, who recommended the "eye opening" book about how to prevent chronic illness through nutrition. "Our colleagues take the same optimizing lens to their life that we take to the market," DiLeonardo wrote in his suggestion. Published in 2015 by American physician Michael Greger , "How Not to Die" examines the top 15 causes of prominent diseases. It has 4.42 stars on Goodreads and includes a checklist of the 12 foods Greger thinks we should eat daily. Wind of Change: Did the CIA write a power ballad that ended the Cold War? Dane Skillrud, COO of systematic equities & FICC, recommended a podcast instead of a book. The eight-part miniseries from 2020 is hosted by New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe and follows his investigation into whether the CIA wrote the song "Wind of Change" by Scorpion, a German rock band. According to rumors, the CIA wrote the 1990s hit to impact the fall of the USSR. "It's a useful reminder of the importance and power of new ideas, music, and language," Skillrud wrote in his recommendation. The series has 4.8 stars on Spotify. Huge if True: An optimistic show about using science and technology to make the future better For the COO of technology and low latency, Jeff Maurone, summer media means YouTube. He recommended video journalist Cleo Abram's series on the future of technology, saying that "she is a tremendous storyteller who helps me navigate how technology and AI are changing our world." Recent episodes focus on everything from DNA editing to getting sucked into a black hole to egg freezing to interviews with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The Herald Scotland
08-07-2025
- Health
- The Herald Scotland
Live to 100? Maybe we all stand a chance if we listen to Devi Sridhar
The world and social media are brimming with influencers doling out the latest in longevity advice. Often they are wellness bros and millionaires, like tech entrepreneur Brian Johnson, offering tips on supplements, fasting techniques, ultimate diets and exercise regimes, from a position of privilege. Devi Sridhar, most famous perhaps as an advisor and commentator during the Covid pandemic, is not in that mould, but nevertheless her book, How Not to Die (Too Soon), coming with its acknowledgement that she would like to live to be 100, tackles the same question. 'I think my point,' the University of Edinburgh professor says, 'is actually have we been looking at this the wrong way? I'm very frustrated by this whole tech approach, the self-help literature of just like think yourself well.' 'A running theme for me is time and resources. It's a very privileged perspective that people will have an hour or two to go to the gym during the work week or that people don't have caring responsibilities that mean that actually they can't build in time.' Last month, in the run up to The Herald's Edinburgh series, for which I focused on the city's transport issues, frequently touching on active travel, I spoke to Sridhar. I'd previously interviewed about her work as an advisor and commentator during the Covid pandemic, but on this occasion the subject was her latest book, How Not To Die. I knew she was an advocate of movement, active travel and exercise. Even back then, in the aftermath of the pandemic, Sridhar had spoken about her interest in wider public health issues, particularly around exercise and chronic disease, and also of her plans to qualify as a personal trainer – which she has now done. This newsletter is chiefly about energy and environment, but of course part of that is how we move through the world. Active travel is one of those concepts in which public and individual human health and planetary health meet. We may cycle, walk or, but we may also do it for our own fitness – and luckily in one swoop we can contribute to both. Active travel is a win, win, win – the only possible proviso being that as we structure our environments more around active travel, we ensure that those who can't so easily cycle or walk are also included. Sridhar recognises the way these impacts crossover. 'So much of the stuff that causes climate change actually causes health problems. So almost I feel like the framing for low emission zones should have been less about environment and more 'You're affecting your own health. Don't think about fifty years down the line or what's happening with the climate; it's actually like what's happening in terms of your risk of having various kind of health issues.' Read more: Why is Scotland so slow on solar? We may not be in heat dome, but we do get sun How Not to Die (Too Soon) draws attention to what Scotland has been doing right as well as wrong. Free tap water, strong gun control laws, relatively good air quality, free bus travel for young people, a leader in anti-smoking laws, a National Health Service that, though straining and imperfect, does provide for all. She is particularly enthusiastic about the free bus travel. 'Get young people using the buses, walking thinking, I can get around my whole day. Why would I get a car that costs money?' Sridhar also mentions a recent cancer scare. 'I'm completely healthy now,' she says. 'My cancer was treated. I guess my take-away from it was how lucky I was to have access to NHS Scotland and that I didn't have to worry about cost or is there a doctor which would be relevant in so many other places if I lived including the States.' But, on Scotland, it's not all positive. The country, she points out, is struggling on diet, obesity rates, chronic disease, preventive care, and mental health provision. This is, after all, the home of the Glasgow Effect, the drug death capital of Europe. Though Sridhar is now herself a personal trainer, an advocate of working on 'the triangle of flexibility, cardio and strength', she doesn't believe that exhorting people to get down to the gym or the sports centre is what is needed. Rather, our society and environment need to be structured to make moving around the easy and obvious choice. 'It's how,' she said, 'do you get your whole population moving? I don't think we should call it sport, we should just call it moving. And I think that's where maybe we need to change it to being like you're sporty or you're not sporty.' Read more: Is Rosebank dead in the water following new guidance? The maths suggests so 'We need a mainstreaming of the idea that there are other forms of being active. If you really like being outside, which can include walking on the beach for an hour, that can be just as good for your body as playing basketball or something where you might feel like that's beyond my comfort zone. Sridhar's interest in physical exercise was nurtured early, during childhood in the United States. Her father was very into sports, and, she says, 'felt that he didn't want me or my siblings falling into that kind of traditional gender roles or even immigrant kind of roles. 'And because he spent a lot of time doing sport, I ended up being in places that were sporty. And so whether you like it or not, you ended up having that kind of ingrained.' 'The answer I came to from looking at other places is that you have to kind of make it invisible, accessible and something you just don't have to plan your day around. You walk to the bus stop, you walk back. You can cycle easily and sometimes you may think, 'Oh, cycling's faster than driving because of the lanes.' Those places she looked at included, unsurprisingly, Amsterdam, but also Paris which is making great strides towards becoming an active travel city. 'A lot of it comes down to their relationship with vehicles and being like can I have a path because if you create a path that's separate completely like physically separate, you do see rates going up, it's not it's not that people don't want to cycle. 'People are scared of cycling on busy streets because the biggest risk to a cyclist is a vehicle, and it's not because drivers are bad intentioned or want to hit a cyclist. It's because of how you design the road and the road safety system, bearing in mind that people do make accidents like humans are prone to error. You can't design a system where you assume that it will work perfectly.' Having physically separated lanes, rather than just a painted line, makes, she points out, a huge difference. She also doesn't want to see this pitched as a war between cyclists and motorists, since many people are both. 'People want to do both. They're like, I want to be able to drive if I need to drive, or there's elderly people or children or pets and they need to move. So I feel the framing needs to be more around options, more around freedom. Take a car if you need to take a car. But don't be forced to take a car.' One answer to the challenge of healthier populations is how we design our cities – and a fitter city is one that makes active travel, moving around on one's own steam, the simplest choice. 'Whether it's kids walking to school or parents walking to work or ever, and they will do it generally in the simplest way for them. So then it becomes a design problem of how do you make that the simplest solution and the safest solution? She also tells a story of how cultures can change. The Netherlands for instance wasn't always the cycling friendly country it is now but only became so in the 1970s, following what began as a parents' campaign around road safety. 'Culture isn't static. It's not that places are like, you're just culturally that way. Places evolve and they change. People say the Dutch like to cycle. Well, they like to cycle because the city's built around cycling. If you build it, they will come.' How Not to Die (Too Soon) by Devi Sridhar is published by Penguin.
Malaysian Reserve
22-04-2025
- Health
- Malaysian Reserve
Physician and New York Times Best-Selling Author Dr. Michael Greger Releases New Longevity Cookbook: THE HOW NOT TO AGE COOKBOOK
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, founder of and author of the best-selling books How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and How Not to Age, has released a new evidence-based longevity cookbook, The How Not to Age Cookbook (Flatiron Books, April 22, 2025), available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop. In his New York Times Best Seller, How Not to Age, Dr. Greger revealed that diet can help regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. His Anti-Aging Eight streamlined evidence-based research into simple, accessible steps for ensuring physical and mental longevity. Now, in The How Not to Age Cookbook, decades of scientific research are put to use in more than a hundred wholesome recipes. Each of the simple, nutrition-packed dishes uses ingredients that have been associated with a healthy lifespan, with inspiration from the places around the world where people traditionally live the longest. Grounded in the latest nutrition science, The How Not to Age Cookbook bursts with delicious meals, snacks, beverages, and desserts that will help keep the body and mind nourished and youthful. For more information on The How Not to Age Cookbook and the latest information on evidence-based nutrition and health, visit Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, is a physician, New York Times best-selling author, founder of founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and internationally-recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. All proceeds received from his books and speaking engagements are donated to charity. is a non-profit, strictly non-commercial, science-based public service organization that provides free updates on the latest in nutrition research. More than 2,000 videos on nearly every aspect of healthy eating are available on its website, with new videos and articles uploaded daily. is a proud member of the True Health Initiative, a global voice for lifestyle as medicine. Information regarding Dr. Greger's New York Times Best-Selling books How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and How Not to Age, his free Daily Dozen app, and podcast are also available on Contact:Mary Harris, Media Directormharris@
