Hope you had a good week.
Of course what follows is even more important.
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." ~ Louis L'Amour
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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading
Bank of Canada is pleading with Star Trek fans to stop “Spocking” its five dollar bills.
Since Leonard Nimoy’s death, Canadian folks have been “Spocking” the hell out of the five dollar bill that features a portrait of Canada’s seventh prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Obsession with Superficial Thinking. (Institutional Investor)
- Google's Eric Schmidt Predicts the Disappearance of the Internet. (FastCompany)
- This Website Will Tell You What Book to Read Next … (MentalFloss)
- Are Gadget-Free Bedrooms the Secret to a Happy Relationship? (NYTimes)
- The World's 2nd-Smartest Man Reveals The 'Brain Drugs' That He Thinks Make Him Smarter. (BusinessInsider)
- Andreessen Horowitz Reveals 16 Hot Tech Trends It's Watching. (Forbes)
- Jawbone: The Trials of a 16-Year-Old Can’t-Miss Startup. (Fortune)
- Predicting the Markets with Twitter Sentiment. (TS)
- Pity the Poor Beleaguered HFT Firms? (Traders Magazine)
- Corporate Settlements in the United States: The criminalization of American business. (The Economist)
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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading
Bank of Canada is pleading with Star Trek fans to stop “Spocking” its five dollar bills.
Since Leonard Nimoy’s death, Canadian folks have been “Spocking” the hell out of the five dollar bill that features a portrait of Canada’s seventh prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Obsession with Superficial Thinking. (Institutional Investor)
- Google's Eric Schmidt Predicts the Disappearance of the Internet. (FastCompany)
- This Website Will Tell You What Book to Read Next … (MentalFloss)
- Are Gadget-Free Bedrooms the Secret to a Happy Relationship? (NYTimes)
- The World's 2nd-Smartest Man Reveals The 'Brain Drugs' That He Thinks Make Him Smarter. (BusinessInsider)
- Andreessen Horowitz Reveals 16 Hot Tech Trends It's Watching. (Forbes)
- Jawbone: The Trials of a 16-Year-Old Can’t-Miss Startup. (Fortune)
- Predicting the Markets with Twitter Sentiment. (TS)
- Pity the Poor Beleaguered HFT Firms? (Traders Magazine)
- Corporate Settlements in the United States: The criminalization of American business. (The Economist)
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The NASDAQ Composite Index Closed over 5,000 for the First Time in 15 Years
The Nasdaq Composite Index closed over 5,000 this week for the first time in 15 years.
A lot has changed since then.
For example, only three of the top 10 companies in the index remain the same.
via NYTimes.
But, notice the change in market cap for those that remain.
The only thing that remains constant is change.
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The NASDAQ Composite Index Closed over 5,000 for the First Time in 15 Years
The Nasdaq Composite Index closed over 5,000 this week for the first time in 15 years.
A lot has changed since then.
For example, only three of the top 10 companies in the index remain the same.
via NYTimes.
But, notice the change in market cap for those that remain.
The only thing that remains constant is change.
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Mana Lisa’s Smile (Nope, It’s not a typo)
Mana Lisa had a strange smile … and eyes that seemed to follow you around the room.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Sometimes you don't recognize when the journey starts … other times you do.
— with Ming Alihan at MAD Museum of Art & Design, Singapore.
And sometimes you have to go half way around the world, just to get to the starting line.
Best wishes on all your journeys.
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Mana Lisa’s Smile (Nope, It’s not a typo)
Mana Lisa had a strange smile … and eyes that seemed to follow you around the room.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Sometimes you don't recognize when the journey starts … other times you do.
— with Ming Alihan at MAD Museum of Art & Design, Singapore.
And sometimes you have to go half way around the world, just to get to the starting line.
Best wishes on all your journeys.
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Apple Now Twice as Big as the 2nd Largest Company in the World!
Apple stock has gained about 20% since the start of the year.That may be cool, in-and-of-itself, but Apple's ever-expanding market cap continues to make headlines for other reasons.Last week, Bespoke tweeted that Apple's market cap surpassed the combined market caps of every single stock in the S&P 600 Small Cap index!Moreover, Apple is also now more than twice as large as the second largest company (Exxon Mobil) in the world. Below is a comparison of the market caps for Apple and Exxon going back to 2000.
via Bespoke.
Just 15 years ago, Apple was struggling as a public company — in December 2000 its market cap had dipped to just $4.65 billion. 15 years later, and Apple now has a market cap of $770 billion!
Below is a list of the 40 largest stocks in the S&P 500. For each stock, Bespoke highlights its "Apple Multiplier", or the amount that each company would have to multiply by to reach the size of Apple.
As shown, Apple is currently 2.04x as big as Exxon Mobil — the second largest company in the S&P. Apple is more than 3x the size of companies like General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Facebook, and JP Morgan.
Pretty staggering numbers.
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Apple Now Twice as Big as the 2nd Largest Company in the World!
Apple stock has gained about 20% since the start of the year.That may be cool, in-and-of-itself, but Apple's ever-expanding market cap continues to make headlines for other reasons.Last week, Bespoke tweeted that Apple's market cap surpassed the combined market caps of every single stock in the S&P 600 Small Cap index!Moreover, Apple is also now more than twice as large as the second largest company (Exxon Mobil) in the world. Below is a comparison of the market caps for Apple and Exxon going back to 2000.via Bespoke.
Just 15 years ago, Apple was struggling as a public company — in December 2000 its market cap had dipped to just $4.65 billion. 15 years later, and Apple now has a market cap of $770 billion!
Below is a list of the 40 largest stocks in the S&P 500. For each stock, Bespoke highlights its "Apple Multiplier", or the amount that each company would have to multiply by to reach the size of Apple.
As shown, Apple is currently 2.04x as big as Exxon Mobil — the second largest company in the S&P. Apple is more than 3x the size of companies like General Electric, Procter & Gamble, Facebook, and JP Morgan.
Pretty staggering numbers.
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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading
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Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- The Ultimate Plan – To Better Your Productivity 1% Every Day. (Plash)
- Tech 2015: Deep Learning and Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World. (Forbes)
- Which Country Reads the Most? (Mental Floss)
- Does Putin Have Asperger's Syndrome? The Pentagon Thinks He Might. (Insider)
- Russian Bomber Intercepted By Norwegian F-16s Carried Nuclear Warhead. (Barents Observer)
- Making Money as the Fed Raises Rates Won't Be Easy. (Money)
- A Futurist Predicts 25 Trends for 2025. (Jim Carroll)
- What Doctors Make. (The Atlantic)
- Soros: European Stimulus Helps The Rich, Will Make Inequality Worse. (Money)
- Apple’s iPhone Overtakes Android in US Sales for the First Time Since 2012. (TechCrunch)
