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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)

 

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)

 

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)

The Sound of Silence [The Disturbed Music Video Version]

I spent last week with almost no Internet or cell service.  On one hand, I suffered some withdrawal symptoms.  On the other hand, it was nice to hear the sound of silence.

50 years ago, Simon & Garfunkel become folk-rock stars with their song, ‘Sound of Silence’.  I don't think that's what they meant.

Recently, someone else made it a hit ... a heavy metal rock band, Disturbed.

Here is the video.  Believe it or not, totally worth watching.

 

 

 

 

YouTube.

Surprisingly good.

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)

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)

If Algorithms Came with IKEA Instructions ...

Some Professors put together IKEA inspired instructional booklets for their algorithms and data-structures lecture. 

So far they've created assembly instructions for Quick Sort, BOGO Sort, Public Key Crypto, Binary Search, Merge Sort, Balance Tree, Graph Scan, and One Stroke Draw algorithms. 

via ideainstruction

This is a pretty cool idea, or at least I thought so. My youngest son said "I don't particularly understand IKEA directions or algorithms so this is basically the worst of both worlds for me."  Finally, we agree about something.

Hopefully, you find it helpful. If not, there's always Wikipedia. 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - May 20th, 2018

 

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

Lighter Links:

• The Myth of Mad' Genius. (Aeon)
• This is Why You Can't Stop Interrupting People. (Fatherly)
• What Makes a Man Attractive? Hint: Look at His Limbs. (ScienceMag)
• Should I Kill Spiders in My Home? an Entomologist Explains Why Not To. (The Conversation)
• As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, Someone is Going to Get Hurt'. (New York Times)

 

Trading Links

• What is Bitcoin ? (DataScienceCentral)
• Uber CEO: Our Future Won't Just Be Cars.(TheVerge)
• Women are Becoming Billionaires at a Faster Rate Than Men. (Time)
• Russia Sets out to Sanction Western Sanctions.(Bloomberg)
• Satellite Images Reveal Which Countries Cheat on Their Economic Statistics. (Quartz)

 

 

Inspiration Comes in Many Forms

Once a year, I go to the World BBQ Championship at Memphis in May. 

It's three days of friends, food, fun, and bad puns (like #AporkalypseNow and  #MeatDrinkAndBeMerry).

You've heard the phrase  "Put your money where your mouth is ..."  This year we sponsored a tent and brought some of the Capitalogix team to enjoy the festivities. 

 

 

Here's a look at what was cooking in our tent.  It had a Brazilian "churrasco" flair. 

 

Our Grill Master was Blake Carson, who took a traditional Brazilian Steakhouse cooking style – and innovated upon it – creating the Carson Rodizio kit (which started as a Kickstarter project).  

It is a multi-rotisserie rack that converts your favorite backyard grill into an open and spinning Brazilian style Steakhouse.  It's clever, functional, and cool ... and it's been used to win multiple barbecue championships.

I love to experience an entrepreneur's mind at work.  

It's not always about what you add.  Sometimes, it is about what you take away.  Less is often more. 

Here is a one-minute interview I shot with Blake last year.

 

 

For more on Carson Rodizio, here is their Facebook page.

Innovation, like opportunity, is all around you.

But it's not there for you if you don't see the opportunity, and seize it.