Happiness and a World Without Smartphones

(Bloomberg View) -- My "spring has finally arrived" morning train reads:

• Buffett’s Edge (Investment Masters Class)
• Retirement Shock: Need to Find a Job After 40 Years at General Electric (Wall Street Journal)
• Land of the Lost: On the Ever-Changing Landscape of Markets (Of Dollars And Data)
• The Arc of Happiness and the Gorilla (L2)
• Michael Cohen case shines light on Sean Hannity’s real estate empire (the Guardian)
• Casualties of Your Own Success (Collaborative Fund)
• Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes. (Washington Post)
• This Is What a World Without Smartphones Looks Like (FastCo.Design)
• The Quarterback of the Kitchen? It’s Not Always the Chef (New York Times)
• The End of the Joint As We Know It (Ringer)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview with Joel Greenblatt of Gotham Asset Management LLC. Greenblatt previously ran Gotham Capital, which generated returns of 50 percent a year (before fees) for 10 years before he returned capital back to investors. He is the author of "The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success." 

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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He blogs at the Big Picture and is the author of “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.”

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