You Know You've Made It When .... Weekly Reading Links - May 4th, 2018

Imitation is the highest form of flattery (except when it's an internet troll spoofing your account to dupe people out of money). Be safe out there!

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:

How to Ensure Your Future is Greater Than Your Past. (Medium) There are Only Three Ways to Get More Done. (LeadershipFreak) The World's 50 Greatest Leaders. (Fortune) The Demise of the Nation State (3QuarksDaily) Cambridge Analytica is Shutting down after Facebook Data Controversy. (NPR) Vatican Secret Archives Deciphered with Artificial Intelligence.(ScienceMag) Why Your Biology Runs on Feelings. (Nautilus) An American in Japan, Investigating the 'Tokyo Vice'. (NPR) Another Side of Feynman. (Nautilus) The Excessive Vision of Donatella Versace. (GQ) Why Trump is Winning and the Press is Losing. (NYBooks) Palantir Knows Everything about You. (Bloomberg) Russia Accidentally Sabotages Its Internet. (TheDailyBeast) The Killers of Kiev: How Putin Created an Assassin's Metropolis. (GQ) Nike's Vaporfly Elite FlyPrint Leans Hard into Computational Design.(TechCrunch) Technical Experts Need to Get Better at Telling Stories. (HBR) Symantec: Establish Security Procedures for the 'Inevitable' Smart Office. (ZDNet) Moderate' Drinking Guidelines are Too Loose, Study Says.(Washington Post) Night Owls May Have Higher Risk of Earlier Death. (PsychCentral) Biotech CEO, Who Injected Himself with Untested Vaccines, Found Dead in Sensory Deprivation Tank, Reports Say. (FoxNews)

Market-Related Links

McKinsey's Latest AI Research Predicts It Could Create Trillions Worth of Value ... Someday. (Re/code) Overflowing with Cash, the World's Largest-Money Market Fund is Trying a New Tactic. (Wall Street Journal) Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin on the Bitcoin Bubble and Running a $125Bn Blockchain. (Medium) Is Ethereum a Security? the Answer Could Upend the Crypto World.(Quartz) An Investor's Guide to Robo-advisors 2018. (Moneysense) Dell's Once-Secret Venture Capital Arm Grows after Unicorn IPOs. (Bloomberg) Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Just Bought Another 75 Million Apple Shares, Report Says. (Fortune) The President of the World Bank Used "One of the Best Ploys to Get a Job" Obama Had Ever Seen. (QZ) The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code. (Bloomberg) Inside the World's Most Elite (And Secret) Traders' Club. (Bloomberg) 5 Big Revelations from Apple's Surprising Q2 Earnings Call. (Cult of Mac) The Quest for the next Billion-Dollar Color. (Bloomberg) The Top 12 Cryptocurrencies and What They Are and Aren't Good For.(TechReview) Pimco's New Bond King Could Be a Robot in Austin. (Wall Street Journal) On Radical Markets. (Vitalik) Richard Thaler: Misbehaving: the Making of Behavioral Economics. (Ritholtz) How Elon Musk's Plan to Colonize Mars Helps Planet Earth. (Observer) U.S. Fund Flows: is Another Round of Sell Everything Coming?(SeeItMarket) 'Just around the Bend': this is When the Stock Market Will Crash, According to 5 Famous Investors. (Time) 1,100 Economists Warn that Trump is Repeating One of the Biggest Mistakes of the Great Depression. (BusinessInsider)

Let me know what you think. Thanks. - Howard