Sometimes making mistakes is all of the fun.

Nonetheless, don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• The Voters in a Changing Nation. (Wall Street Journal)
• FBI Releases 17-Year-Old Records from a Bill Clinton Presidential Pardon Investigation. (Time)
• Post-ABC Tracking Poll: Trump 46, Clinton 45, as Democratic Enthusiasm Dips. (Washington Post)
• How the Very Best Strategists Decide. (HBR)
• Medicine Will Advance More in the next 10 Years Than It Did in the Last 100. (SingularityHub)

Trading Links:

• Oil Falls on ‘Most Bearish Report of All Time’. (Wall Street Journal)
• Amazon's Cloud is Bigger Than Microsoft, Google and IBM Combined, Researcher Says. (Flipboard)
• How Economists View the Rise of Artificial Intelligence. (Fortune)
• More Fearful, Investors Scale Back Volatility Short Bet. (Wall Street Journal)
• This Election is Less Critical Than You Think. (ValueWalk)

Time Flies!!

I was at a family event in California this weekend.  There is a whole new generation (or two) behind me, which means a bunch of new grey hair in mine.

As I tried to relive my youth on the dance floor,  I noticed that I'm not as good at some stuff as I used to be.

Here, the hula hoop was clearly defective.  

Crazy how that works (or doesn't anymore)  … I used to be able to do the splits as well.

Time doesn't stop and the new generation is coming for you … kind of sucks.  But it clearly beats the alternative.

The question is how you choose to stay relevant?

Caution objects are sometimes creepier than they initially appear.

 

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• What Obama’s Tech Startup Has to Teach about Adaptability. (FirstRound)
• The Unpleasant Truth about Chinese Espionage. (Observer)
• 60 Inspiring Quotes to Keep You Going on the Road to Success. (Inc.)
• Stephen Hawking Says Most of Our History is "The History of Stupidity". (SA)
• Donald Trump: 'I Will Totally Accept' Election Results 'If I Win'. (CNN)

  

Trading Links:

• Chart: the Robo-Advisor Arms Race. (VisualCapitalist)
• AI-Powered Robo Adviser Takes Aim at the Richest Clients. (QuantNews)
• Russian Hackers Could Fake Evidence of Electoral Fraud, Warn U.S. Officials. (Time)
• Microsoft’s Cloud Results Just Blew Its Stock Price through the Roof. (Flipboard)
• Why Japanese Telecom Giant SoftBank Could Buy Twitter. (Forbes)

There are three primary factors that impact business results:  people, processes, and information.

Human nature doesn't change much.  Processes can improve.  Meanwhile, information is growing at a transformative rate (both in quantity and quality).

Data is becoming the new currency.

Every day we create approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data … It's a staggering number.  

In contrast, realize that we sent men to the moon on less computing power and less data than what an average smart phone holds today.

Big Data is a burgeoning industry, earning vendors $46 billion dollars so far in 2016.  With the rate of growth for data creation at approximately 2x, it'll be interesting to see not only what big data does, and how it effects industry.

Click the image below to see the full infographic.

 

via vcloudnews