Welcome to the ninth edition of The Three Things, brought to you by Michael Schechter, Howie Goldfarb, and me.

I hope all of my U.S. friends had a nice Thanksgiving and Black Friday. I heard lots of reports of the crazies out there waiting in line to get into the stores, while I stayed in my warm house and shopped online.

One more day and then you have to get back to work. It’s the race to the end of the year. Good luck!

For those of you new to this series, The Three Things arrives in your inbox on Sunday mornings (unless you don’t suscribe, but that can easily be fixed if you hurry over and enter your email address or add to your RSS feed) so you have some extra time to spend perusing the obscure content we’ve curated for you (and one another) before your week begins and deadlines, meetings, and work takes over. (more…)