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Ultra Spiritual Wisdom on Bitcoin

Seemingly everywhere I go, someone asks me about Bitcoin.

Clearly, there are speculators and day traders banking coin. 

I am a little surprised by how fast it captured the cultural zeitgeist.

Here's a clever spoof ... worth watching.

  

 AwakenWithJP via Youtube

I'm sure we'll talk more about Bitcoin ... but, more importantly, Blockchain (which is the technology that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were built upon).

I am currently investigating and planning how we'll use Blockchain.

Onwards.

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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - December 22nd, 2017

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

Lighter Links:

• How One Connection Could Change Your Life (In Less Than 90 Days). (Forbes)
• Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds. (NewYorker)
• Long Island Iced Tea Soars after Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain. (Bloomberg)
• How Quantum Computing Will Change the World. (NewStatesman)
• Cracking the World Famous Enigma Machine with Artificial Intelligence in Just 13 Minutes. (7WData)

Trading Links:

• Here's How the Tax Bill Will Affect the Richest 1% in All 50 States. (CNBC)
• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Just Sold $1.1 Billion Worth of His Stock. (Money)
• This Animation Shows the Explosion in ICO Funding over the Last Four Years. (Insider)
• The First $100 Billion Dollar Blockchain Company Could Be the next SAP. (Forbes)
• Worldwide Cognitive Systems and Artificial Intelligence Revenues Forecast to Surge past $47 Billion in 2020, According to New IDC Spending Guide. (IDC)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - December 17th, 2017

I just saw the new Star Wars with my family.

It's a bit crazy to think about what percentage of my life occurred since the original came out

I can still remember watching the first one. 

 

BTW, I'm not 60 yet ... but, I am pushing double nickels.

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

Lighter Links:

• LeBron James: Keeping a Billion-dollar Body in Shape. (CNN)
• Success Strategies from a Self-made Billionaire. (TonyRobbins)
• When Robots Dream: AI Systems May Learn Better and Faster If They Can Sleep'. (Siliconangle)
• Machine Ethics and Artificial Moral Agents. (KDNuggets)
• The CIA is Telling Us How the Agency Uses Americans' Data. (Mashable)

Trading Links:

• FCC Revokes the Net Neutrality Rules. (NordVPN)
• Janet Yellen Calls Bitcoin 'Highly Speculative'. (CNN)
• Driverless Cars Will Change Auto Insurance. Here's How Insurers Can Adapt. (HBR)
• This Investor Says Millennials are 'Starting to Buy Homes in a Big Way'. (CNBC)
• Google Leads in the Race to Dominate Artificial Intelligence. (Economist)

 

What's Next ... Robot Rockstars?

Artificial Intelligence has already been used to compose various pieces of music, but they're not replacing real "stars" anytime soon. 

A New Zealand musician, Nigel Stanford, released a video with an imagined collaboration between himself and a team of crane-armed robots.

He spent about a month programming the robots. 

Check it out.

 

DailyDot via Youtube

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - December 3rd, 2017

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

Lighter Links:

• The Seven Powers of Gratitude. (LeadershipFreak)
• The Top 18 Destinations for 2018. (ThePointsGuy)
• Lab-Grown "Clean Meat" is Almost Here. Will You Eat It? (BigThink)
• The White House Wants to Ban Cellphones, Citing Security Risk. (TechCrunch)
• The 12 Best Business Books of the Year, According to Stanford Business School. (BusinessInsider)

Trading Links:

• CryptoCurrencies and Blockchains. (Inference-Review)
• Investors Beware: 'Sentiment' is Not an Exact Market-Timing Tool. (Forbes)
• Institutions Shift More Assets Into Smart Beta. (FT)
• 'Stealth Hedging' Shows Investors Not So Complacent. (Reuters)
• Entrepreneurs Eye the Early Exits as M&A Activity for Young Companies Rises. (CityAM)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - November 12th, 2017

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Many Strategies Fail Because They're Not Actually Strategies. (HBR)
• The Purpose of Sleep? to Forget, Scientists Say. (CS)
• What is Unique Ability? (StrategicCoach)
• UPS Drivers Don't Turn Leftand It Saves Them 10 Million Gallons of Gas a Year. (Qz)
• Eugenics 2.0: We're at the Dawn of Choosing Embryos by Health, Height, and More. (TechReview)

Trading Links:

• Why Investors Should Trade Futures. (TheStreet)
• Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes, Including Billionaire Alwaleed Bin Talal. (NYT)
• Investment Queen: A Look at Elizabeth II's Fortune. (AP News)
• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Just Sold $1.1 Billion Worth of His Stock. (CNN)
• Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett Now Have More Money Than Literally Half of America Combined. (Inc)

 

 

What Do You Buy Someone Who Has Everything?

I'm getting cynical, I understand planned obsolescence ... but has it occurred to you that Apple could make their phones act sluggish just before the launch of a new version?  

My phone has been driving me nuts.  So, (as I write this) I'm up at 2 am to place my order for the new iPhone X.

On one hand, it satisfies my desire for the new and shiny ... but, on the other hand, it makes it harder for my wife.

Buying gifts is often hard. But it gets harder when the giftee already has everything (or buys it himself).

That is where Neiman Marcus comes in.

Every year since 1959, Neiman Marcus has published a Christmas Book. Primarily comprised of normal Neiman Marcus offerings ... the book also contains pretty amazing "fantasy" gifts.  For example, who doesn't want a rose-gold Cobalt Valkyrie-X private plane (worth $1.5 million) ...

 

Neiman Marcus

 

I don't know about you, but it's a little feminine for me.

Or, there is a private Submarine (worth $20,000,000). 

 

Neiman Marcus

 

But that is only good if you don't have one already.

You can check out NM's 2017 Fantasy Gift List, here, and get a personal trip to Champagne, France or a pair of specially commissioned His and Hers Rolls Royces. 

Let me know if you have any good gift ideas.  I'm always looking for them.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - October 15th, 2017

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

 

 

Lighter Links:

• Radical Candor Will Help Managers Balance Accountability and Empathy. (SmallBizTrends)
• Pretending to Be Batman Helps Kids Stay on Task. (Digest)
• The Secrets of Disneyland: a Company Vet Explains How the Magic Happens. (FastCompany)
• What Actually Happens When You Pull a Muscle? (Popular Science)
• Now that Anyone Can Hack BiologyShould We Be Afraid? (SingularityHub)

Trading Links:

• How to Destroy Our Economy. (Forbes)
• Bulldozers Can Show You Where the Economy's Going before the Official Data Do. (Bloomberg)
• JPMORGAN: Here's What Could Cause the next Financial Crisis. (BusinessInsider)
• Goldman Sachs to Explore Starting Bitcoin Trading Venture. (Bloomberg)
• AI Will Eliminate 1.8M Jobs but Create 2.3M by 2020, Claims Gartner. (TechRepublic)

Misheard Song Lyrics with Peter Kay

Years ago, when my kids were still children, Macy Gray came out with a song called "I Try."

When I heard the kids singing, the chorus went: 

I try to say goodbye and I choke, I try to walk away and I stumble, though I try to hide it, it's clear, I wear goggles when you are not near.

Of course, it's not "I wear goggles when you are not here", even if my youngest son swore it was ... The actual line is "My world crumbles when you are not near" ... which makes a lot more sense. 

This has happened to me several times as well (recently, too – which prompted this post). 

Turns out, we humans are pattern-matching machines.  But not all of the patterns we perceive are really there.

Peter Kay plays on our disposition with this funny bit about misheard lyrics. 

Worth a watch. 

 

via YouTube 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - October 8th, 2017

 Old people and their joints ... it's becoming an issue. 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Why Culture Doesn't Just Beat Strategy, It Must Be the Strategy. (Inc)
• Google Reveals the Top Things People Want to Find out How To' Do. (TechCrunch)
• Pain Leads to Empathy and Self-preservation: Should We Make Robots Feel' It? (Aeon)
• Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Adds 5G and Deep Learning. (Forbes)
• Hostile Terrain: Tank Traps, Fake Towns & Secret Tunnels of the Korean Borderlands. (99PercentInvisible)

Trading Links:

• Seventy-Eight Billion Reasons Why Bitcoin Is the New Gold. (Globe&Mail)
• Amazon Wants to Open a $5 Billion Second HQ in North America. (CNN)
• Has Disruption from E-commerce Run Its Course? (Latest)
• Who Vladimir Putin Thinks Will Rule the World. (CNN)
• Employees at the World's Largest Hedge Fund Use iPads to Rate Each Other's Performance in Real-Time – See How It Works. (Insider)