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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

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

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.

Lighter Links:

• 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)

Trading Links:

• 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)

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.

Lighter Links:

• 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)

Trading Links:

• 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 of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

Lighter Links:

• 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)

Trading Links:

• 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)

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

Lighter Links:

• 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)

Trading Links:

• 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)

Sometimes the best way to complete something is to consider it done.

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

Lighter Links:

• Former CEO John Sculley Explains How Apple Sells Experiences. (Cult of Mac)
• Are We Really 10% Human and 90% Bacteria? Exploring the Microbiome. (Tim Ferriss)
• The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Super-Intelligent Robots. (MB)
• Revive-a-Phone. A way to repair phones dropped in liquid. (Cool)
• The Top Technology Failures of 2014. What do the latest technologies to flop, fizzle, and flame out tell us about innovation? (MIT Technology Review)

Trading Links:

• Elon Musk is Going to Build an Internet In Space. (TheNextWeb)
• The Number of Tech IPOs Can Double By 2016. (TechCrunch)
• Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is Dead. He Left His Successor With A Lot Of Problems. (Vox)
• 19 of the Most Expensive Substances in the World. (Business Insider)
• Aggressive European Central Bank Stimulus Ushers in New Era for Europe. Planning Purchases of €60 Billion in Assets Each Month (Wall Street Journal)

Sometimes the best way to complete something is to consider it done.

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

Lighter Links:

• Former CEO John Sculley Explains How Apple Sells Experiences. (Cult of Mac)
• Are We Really 10% Human and 90% Bacteria? Exploring the Microbiome. (Tim Ferriss)
• The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Super-Intelligent Robots. (MB)
• Revive-a-Phone. A way to repair phones dropped in liquid. (Cool)
• The Top Technology Failures of 2014. What do the latest technologies to flop, fizzle, and flame out tell us about innovation? (MIT Technology Review)

Trading Links:

• Elon Musk is Going to Build an Internet In Space. (TheNextWeb)
• The Number of Tech IPOs Can Double By 2016. (TechCrunch)
• Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is Dead. He Left His Successor With A Lot Of Problems. (Vox)
• 19 of the Most Expensive Substances in the World. (Business Insider)
• Aggressive European Central Bank Stimulus Ushers in New Era for Europe. Planning Purchases of €60 Billion in Assets Each Month (Wall Street Journal)