Got my ipad yesterday, and I really see it as being a useful tool in my practice. Unlike a traditional laptop, it is exceedingly light and easy to slip in a bag with no added weight. I do not carry the charger or anything. It is amazingly smooth, and there are a decent number of productivity apps. I find myself able to hook up to mobile hotspot on my palm pre and sitting and working anywhere. 

Initially, I was skeptical of the Ipad, but I can admit when I am wrong. 

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Over the weekend, I read The Big Short by Michael Lewis. Lewis is a great storyteller, and really knows how to find the characters to make a catastrophe like the financial crisis comprehensible. This is the best book I have read yet on the origins of the financial crisis. 

To start off with Lewis' conclusion, Wall Street should have been allowed to disappear in the fall of 2008.  It had no redeeming qualities, so driven by the need for profit and outrageous salaries, whatever value Wall Street...
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