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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - August 26th, 2018

My experience is that you tend to see the same people on the way up ... as you do on the way down.

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

Lighter Links

• Anonymous Bidder Pays $3.3 Million for Lunch with Warren Buffett. (New York Times)
• What If Your Business Was So Intelligent that Nothing Came as a Surprise. (Medium)
• Here's Why You Shouldn't Multitask, According to an MIT Neuroscientist. (Southernliving)
• Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore. (The Atlantic)
• What is the 80/20 Rule? How the Pareto Principle Will Supercharge Your Productivity. (HubSpot)

  

Trading Links

• The Stock Market is on Pace to Hit Another, More Impactful Trillion-dollar Milestone. (Finance)
• Too Little Too Late': Bankruptcy Booms among Older Americans. (New York Times)
• THE MOST AMAZING STORY about BITCOIN YOU'VE EVER HEARD. (James Altucher)
• Why AI Isn't the Death of Jobs. (McKinsey)
• Los Angeles' Median Home Price Nears $1 Million as Fierce Bidding Wars Continue. (Forbes)

 

Willpower Doesn't Work - Benjamin Hardy

“The addict only needs to change one thing… their whole damn life.” — Ben Hill, Ph.D.

In one way, shape, or form, we’re all prone to some form of addiction or bad habit. Whether it’s food, adrenaline, TV, we all have a psychological or physiological “need” for something that we could probably afford less of.

Every second you spend or decision you make trying to fight that compulsion depletes your ability to say “no” to it the next time. If you want to permanently change your relationship with something ... willpower, alone, may not get you there.

That same principle applies to pursuing success or personal progress.  The trick is recognizing that you can create conditions that make your success much more likely.

Benjamin Hardy is a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Psychology, a bestselling author of "Willpower Doesn’t Work", a top writer on Medium, and a friend from Genius Network.

I spoke with him about his new book, the idea that “willpower doesn’t work” and what the lessons taught in his book can do for you or your organization. Check it out.

 

No matter how much internal resolve you have, changing the story you tell yourself and the environment you create for yourself, are reliable ways to make meaningful and lasting change.

Once you’ve found what you really want and created the environment to support it – willpower is secondary.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - August 19th, 2018

Turns out, Google is tracking your location history - even when you turn off location tracking in Google Maps.

It's increasingly apparent that privacy in today's digital age is a farce. 

 

If you want to actually stop Google from tracking location (short of selling all of your material possessions and living off the grid) turn off your device information, location history and web activity here. This will depersonalize your searches as well - so your ads will (hopefully) not know your deepest darkest secrets anymore. 

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

 

Lighter Links

• 3 Key Factors that Led to Apple Becoming the World's First Trillion-Dollar Company. (Entrepreneur)
• 7 Job Skills of the Future (That AIs and Robots Can't Do Better Than Humans). (Forbes)
• This Will Help You Grasp the Sizes of Things in the Universe.(Nautilus)
• A Fascinating List of Autonomic Functions that Occur within Human Bodies Every 60 Seconds. (LaughingSquid)
• Hear Freddie Mercury & Queen's Isolated Vocals on Their Enduring Classic Song, We are the Champions. (OpenCulture)

  

Trading Links

• Here's How Fortnite Hooked 125 Million Players.(TheNextWeb)
• Six Media Giants Control 90 Percent of the Content We Consume. (PR Daily)
• Contradiction: Fund Managers Love Tech but Worry about the Trade War. (ValueWalk)
• Report: Just 12% of 2017'S $43 Billion in Music Industry Revenue Went to Artists. (CNW)
• Bill Gates Noticed a Global Economy Trend that No One is Paying Enough Attention To. (Observer)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - August 5th, 2018

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

 

Lighter Links

• The 5 Levels of Leadership. (Quartz)
• Your Obsession with Cognitive Biases is Probably Making You Dumber. (Inc)
• Apple Watch Keeps Spotting Cardiac Issues and Saving Lives, this Time in Australia. (AppleInsider)
• What is Intermittent Fasting and is It Actually Good for You? (Time)
• New Radio Telescope Picks up Mysterious Signal from Space. (CNet)

 

 

Trading Links

• Jeff Bezos' Parents Invested $245,573 in Amazon in 1995 Now They Could Be Worth $30 Billion. (Insider)
• The Biggest Thing to Happen in Blockchain since Bitcoin. (Forbes)
• Russia Dumped 84% of Its American Debt. What that Means. (Money)
• Big Pharma Would like Your DNA. (The Atlantic)
• AAPL Gets Even Closer to $1Tn Market Cap, Hits New All-time High in After-hours Trading. (9to5Mac)

 

Some Down Time – Replacing Head With Heart

I was at the Jersey Shore for my birthday this weekend. Over 30 people showed up to surprise me. It was heartwarming, fun, and genuinely surprising.

My wife, Jennifer, arranged it all without me knowing (or even suspecting).

Here's one picture from the festivities. 

We didn't go to the casinos, amusement parks, or to see shows. We did, however, eat good food, go to the beach and spend time together.  I wasn't focused on my business or deadlines. 

It was a heart-focused (rather than head-focused) time for us.

We are often so good at what we're good at that we forget to focus on the other stuff.

Thanks for the reminder.  I'm passing it on!

Is Biohacking the New Key to Trading?

Last week, I was in Alaska at Steamboat Bay for a CEO retreat. 

One of the other attendees was Dave Asprey - CEO of Bulletproof, author of Headstrong, and a biohacking thought-leader.

Very few people understand what we do at Capitalogix; even fewer understand it well enough to paint a vivid picture ... yet, that's exactly what Dave did ... almost instantly.

I asked him to retell it on video - to try and capture his take.   To set your expectations,  his take is different than you might imagine ... It's got ancient bacteria, futuristic algorithms, and a little genius.

Kind of cool ... Check it out.  

"It takes a lot of computer power, and it takes a lot of algorithms, and it takes a lot of environmental sensors ... that's why we can walk around, breathe, and think." 
    ~    Dave Asprey

Markets are an environment just like the environment we live in. Our algorithms can learn and evolve based on markets in a similar way to how humans evolved and adapted to their environments.

To summarize:  In the beginning, there was an algorithm ... and it was good.  

And, it's just the beginning.

Onwards!

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - July 22nd, 2018

 

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

Lighter Links

• The Boston Dynamics Robots Can Now Hunt You in the Woods. (DailyDot)
• What Cyber-War Will Look Like. (Scholars-Stage)
• The Mistakes You Make in a Meeting's First Milliseconds. (Wall Street Journal)
• Does Intermittent Fasting Work? Here's What It Can (And Can't) Do for You. (Cheatsheet)
• 'Never Underestimate Human Stupidity,' Says Historian Whose Fans Include Bill Gates and Barack Obama. (CNBC)

 

Trading Links

• Coinbase Says It Has Green Light to List Coins Deemed Securities. (Bloomberg)
• CRISPR Stocks Plummet over Study Pointing to Potential Adverse Effects. (FastCompany)
• Warren Buffett Donates $3.4-Billion to Gates Foundation and His Family's Charities. (Globe&Mail)
• The 24 Rules for Success Left behind by a Legendary Wall Street Banker. (Time)
• Scientists Discovered a Quadrillion Diamonds Hidden Deep within the Earth. (Inverse)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - July 8th, 2018

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

 

Lighter Links

• Yes, Your Phone is Spying on You and these Researchers Proved It. (BGR)
• Talking to Your Team about Cyber Threats. (Myventurepad)
• A Mesmerizing 4K Timelapse of Kilauea's Famous Lava Flow. (TwistedSifter)
• The 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Winners. (TwistedSifter)
• Harvard University is Fighting to Keep Its Secretive Admissions Process under Wraps. (MarketWatch)

 

Trading Links

• JPMorgan's Ultimate Guide to Markets and the Economy. (BusinessInsider)
• Yes, America Still is an Export Superpower. (BigThink)
• The Top 10 Biggest Airline Money Making Routes in the World (One Generates a Billion Dollars). (VFTW)
• First Commercial DNA Data Storage Service Set to Launch in 2019. (NewScientist)
• Why Quantum Computers Will Be Super Awesome, Someday. (Bloomberg)

A Helpful Old Parable ...

I was talking to a friend this weekend and was reminded of an old parable I heard years ago...

 

I stand on top of the mountain and I just kick pebbles ... Minute by minute, hour after hour, day in and day out ... I simply kick pebbles.

Mostly, those pebbles fly off into nowhere and I watch them skip away ... Occasionally those pebbles hit a small stone ... Juuuusst right ... and that stone slides down the hill.

...

Then, sometimes, those stones collide, on the way down, and their slide becomes a tumble and they smack a ROCK.

And, those ROCKS begin to fall, end over end, gathering speed ... and a couple hit a BOULDER ... Then ... the Boulder shifts... there is a RUMBLE ... the EARTH MOVES BENEATH ME ...

AND THE ENTIRE LANDSCAPE CHANGES ... EVERYTHING LOOKS DIFFERENT ... !!!

I stand on top of the mountain and I just kick pebbles ... Minute by minute, hour after hour, day in and day out ... I simply kick pebbles!

 

Keep up the good work!

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - June 24th, 2018

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

Lighter Links

• Why Blockchain Isn't a Revolution. (Knowledge)
• Daniel Kahneman: Four Keys to Better Decision Making.(CFAInstitute)
• Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children. (The Atlantic)
• Rise of the Machines: Has Technology Evolved beyond Our Control? (The Guardian)
• Leader Schedules; 72% Meeting Time; 43% Priority Time; 3% Customer Time; ExO Course next Week. (Verne Harnish)

 

 

Trading Links

• 4 Horsemen of the Recession and Stock Market Apocalypse. (SeekingAlpha)
• Blockchain beyond the Hype: What is the Strategic Business Value? (McKinsey)
• Cryptocurrency Will Become a $20 Trillion Market: Billionaire Bull Mike Novogratz. (Finance)
• Top Banking Takeaways from the 2018 Internet Trends Report. (TheFinancialBrand)
• How Amazon Became One of Washington's Most Powerful Players. (Wall Street Journal)