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September 17, 2017
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September 01, 2017
August 27, 2017
NFL - Boom or Bust
Are you ready for some Football?
This chart may explain why my foreign friends prefer a different form of "football" ... It shows how many Super Bowl Championships each region has.
The regular season is about to start, and the buzz is building ... but, not all of it is good.
Violence ... drugs ... concussions ... There has been a lot of bad press surrounding the NFL lately.
The Cowboys, alone, have somewhere between 4 to 7 players (depending on appeals) subject to miss games due to league suspensions for misconduct.
The Teflon League: NFL Revenues and Viewership Are Up.
Currently, the NFL is the 11th most important private company in the USA according to Fortune, and has the highest revenue of any sports league worldwide.
via howmuch
While critics contend that something needs to be done about the various issues surrounding the NFL, it's hard to conclude that those issues affect viewership. The NFL currently dominates attendance per game, viewership, and revenue.
In an experience economy, the NFL puts out an extraordinary product.
Long term may prove to be a different story, however. Each year there are less high-school football players and more competition.
I guess we'll see.
Regardless ... "How About Them Cowboys!"
August 20, 2017
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - August 20th, 2017
Change is the only constant.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- AI Beats the World's Best Gamers after Just Two Weeks of Learning. (NewAtlas)
- Russia-linked Hackers Targeted Hotel Guests across Europe: Security Firm. (Reuters)
- One Year after Rio: What's Left behind after the Flame Goes Out. (ESPN)
- Humans and Robots are on the Cusp of a Sexual Intimacy We May Never Reverse. (Quartz)
- Elon Musk Just Shared His 4-Step Plan for Mars - Colonists Should Be "Prepared to Die". (ScienceAlert)
- Ray Dalio Urges Investors to Hedge Against Possible North Korea War. (FN)
- There Has Never, Ever, Been this Many Trades Betting on VIX. (ZH)
- Amazon Could Start Selling Event Tickets in the U.S. (TechCrunch)
- South Korea Introduces World's First Robot Tax. (ZeroHedge)
- The Number of Cash Payments Dipped 11 Per Cent Last Year - But It's Still the Most Used Payment Method. (CityAM)
Rubik's Cubes ... More than just a game.
One of my unique abilities is pattern matching.
Even if I'm not an expert in a field, based on context and patterns, I quickly see the big picture – and recognize the bottlenecks and leverage points that impact transformative results.
Perhaps that's why Rubik's Cubes fascinate me.
A scrambled cube presents an insurmountable challenge to newbies. It almost seems that there are infinite possibilities ... and most lead towards chaos and failure. In reality, a Rubik's cube is pretty easy to solve if you understand a few simple algorithms (and match the positions of a couple key blocks in relation to the decisions you need to make next).
As more people learn to solve standard cubes, the game evolves. There is new generation of "Cubers" that attempt to find new creative situations to add difficulty, solve it faster than the next person, or try crazy variations of the cube that barely resembles the original.
If you're trying to learn how to solve a basic cube, here's a great resource.
After you've learned the basic patterns, and solved a few puzzles, you can up the ante.
Here are some examples of bigger cubes with more variables and different shapes.
via hananujiya
Ultimately, it is that base pattern recognition and simple solving skills (applied in the right order) that sets the stage.
It doesn't matter where you start. As long as you continue to make progress, the result is inevitable.
August 06, 2017
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - August 4th, 2017
A poorly thought-out plan, executed perfectly, is better than a perfectly designed plan that never gets executed.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- NFL in Talks with Jerry Jones, Yankees to Combine Event, Hospitality Business. (BR)
- How to Boost Your Mental Health with Nootropics. (PickTheBrain)
- Study Says It's the Cuddling, More Than the Sex, that Makes You Happy. (Flipboard)
- Fukushima Disaster Evacuees Told to Return to Abandoned Homes. (TheGuardian)
- Someone Asked Their Amazon Echo If It Was Connected to the CIA. the Response Was Not Reassuring. (SomeEcards)
- The Secret Economic Lives of Animals. (Bloomberg)
- Bill Gates Invests in Veggie Burger that Bleeds' like Beef to Feed the Masses and Save the Planet. (GeekWire)
- Alan Greenspan: the Bubble is in Bonds, Not Stocks. (Apple)
- Why the Post Office Gives Amazon Special Delivery. (Wall Street Journal)
- U.S. Farmers, Who Once Fed the World, are Overtaken by New Powers. (Wall Street Journal)
July 16, 2017
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - July 16th, 2017
Science, Art, or "PooPoo De Toro"...
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Ray Kurzweil: There's a Blueprint for the Master Algorithm in Our Brains (Futurism)
- Brain-training Games Don't Really Train Brains, a New Study Suggests. (WashPost)
- Why Men Don't Live as Long as Women. (Nautilus)
- What a Hunter-Gatherer Diet Does to the Body in Just Three Days. (CNN)
- Is Philosophy Simply Harder Than Science? (TLS)
July 07, 2017
June 17, 2017
Here Are Some Links For Your Weekly Reading - June 17th, 2017
The new normal.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- Putin Implies the U.S. is ‘Stupid’, Talks about NATO ‘Falling Apart’. (ValueWalk)
- Anti-Semitic Incidents Rose a Whopping 86% in the First 3 Months of 2017. (Apple)
- Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far Right. (NYMag)
- Malcolm Gladwell on Why We Shouldn’t Value Speed Over Power. (Heleo)
- Learning to Distinguish “Fear” from “Fear of Fear” is Key to Leading a Happy Life. (Quartz)
- Puerto Rico Votes in Favor of Statehood. (TheHill)
- Trump Tweets and the Efficient Market Hypothesis. (SSRN)
- Tony Robbins: What I Learned from the World's Greatest Investors. (Time)
- The World's Highest-Paid Musicians of 2016 - Pg.1. (Forbes)
- For Aramco Insiders, Prince’s $2 Trillion IPO Valuation Doesn’t Add Up. (WSJ)
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