The Best Humor Is Based On Truth - Weekly Links - June 16th, 2017

Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately. These are the links I saved this week. Hope you find some interesting and enjoyable tidbits. Let me know if you read something I'd like ... Or if there are other sources I should add to my weekly reading. Thanks.

Lighter Links:

Artificial Intelligence Has to Deal with Its Transparency Problems.(TNW) It’s this Easy to Look inside an Algorithm. (FastCoD) Ten Authentic Leadership Practices. (Forbes) How to Train Your Brain to Go Positive instead of Negative. (Forbes) Putin’s Paradise. (City-journal) Remembering Manuel Noriega and His Capture. (WOTR) How Much Mormonism Has Changed. (BCC) Trump’s Meddlesome Priest. (New York Times) Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our Species. (NYT) How the D-Day Invasion Was Planned. (PopularMechanics) The New IMac Pro is Apple’s Most Bonkers Computer Ever. (Wired) Google’s AlphaGo Beats the World’s Best Go Player — Again.(WashPost) Football 3.0 is Coming. This is What It Will Look Like. (SBNation) An Excavation of One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections.(FiveThirtyEight) Turns Out, a Horrifying Number of People Use Their Phones While Driving. (Wired) The 9-Minute Strength Workout. (New York Times) Science Asks: is Your Dog Just Playing You? (Forbes) Interactive Map Reveals Who Has the Most Powerful Passport.(Telegraph) Would Your Company Pass this Stringent Good Workplace Audit?(FastCompany) First Class Vs. Last Class? Airlines Bolster Premium Cabin, Skimp on Economy. (WSJ)

Market-Related Links

17 Fintech Businesses that Could One Day Be Worth over $1 Billion.(Business Insider) Alternative Finance and the Rise of the Fintech Unicorn. (Forbes) The Most Dangerous Narratives are Usually the Smartest. (PragCap) ‘Alt’ Data in Emerging Markets. (MarketsMedia) Can a Man Responsible for $5 Trillion Convince You He’s Not Powerful?(Bloomberg) Craft Beer — So Hot Right Now. (Pudding) US Retailers are on Pace to Close More Stores in 2017 than in the 2008 Great Recession. (Quartz) Apple Hires Rocket Scientists as It Tries to Catch up in Driverless Cars.(WSJ) Bad Intelligence behind the Wheel. (Wall Street Journal) Glimpse the Store of the Future. (Bloomberg) Fintech Lures MBAs Away from Banking and Consulting. (FT) Bloomberg Weed Index. (Ritholtz) Is this the End of Venture Capital as We Know It? (VentureBeat) Companies of the Future: No CEO, No Boss, Managed by Blockchain.(VB) Netflix to Raise $1 Billion through Debt Offering to Fund New Content & ‘Strategic Transactions’. (VB) “The Real Corruption is the Ownership of Congress by the Rich”.(Posner) Watch this Larry Page-backed Flying Car Take to the Sky above a Lake. (TechCrunch) The Death of the Smartphone is Closer Than You Think. Here's What Comes Next. (ZDNet) How Hedge Fund Billionaire James Simons is Changing Math Education.(Forbes) BAML: the '$1 Trillion Flow that Conquers All' Explains Everything Happening in Markets. (Business Insider)

Let me know what you think. Thanks. - Howard