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There is always a way to be a little better!

I was in Phoenix for a meeting this past week. 

Usually, the highlight of a trip like that entails desert vistas.  This time, however, I had a chance to visit the stadium where the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl was held (and thanks to some friends at Infusionsoft, got to see a game there too).

 

 

It was kind of cool to watch a celebration of those just a little better than who they play against.

There is always a way to be a little better!

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Bad Lip Reading pours its talents on into the mouths of unsuspecting football players, just in time for the Pro Bowl and  Super Bowl.

 

 

 

via YouTube.

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious CEO in the Universe. (Fortune)
• Decrypting Google: Examining the Growing Giant's Business Methods. (Economist)
• 25 most commonly used password list 2014. (Visual.ly)
• 10 Fad Diets, Debunked. (Io9)
• Woman Sends Bank Angry Letter After They Bounced Her Check. This Is Gold. (Tickld)

 

Trading Links:

• The Best and Worst Hedge Funds of 2014 - and Everyone In-Between. (ZeroHedge)
• Top 5 Chinese Trends That Will Shape The Global Economy in 2015. (GeekTime)
• Top 10 Trading Movies. (Futures Mag)
• A Venture Capitalist's Five Predictions for 2015. (Fortune)
• 3 Reasons Why Legal Marijuana is Happening Now. (Wall Street Cheat Sheet)

What’s Going On - Playing For Change [Music Video]

Here is a different take on Marvin Gaye’s classic “What’s Going On”.

It is a "Song Around The World" recording by Playing For Change.

It starts with an acoustic guitar in Africa, adds a drummer in Los Angeles. Next comes the electric guitar and bass on the streets of Chicago and strings in Serbia.  You get the picture ...

Now listen to the music.

 

 

 

Years in the making, minutes to watch. Very cool.

This Song Around The World is featured on PFC3. The album features 185 musicians from 31 countries.

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Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Déjà vu?

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 5 Tips for Finding Flow: A High Performance User's Guide for the New Year. (Forbes)
• Science Says This Personality Trait Predicts Job Performance. What's your guess? (BI)
• Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer. (NewYorker)
• CIA Predictions for 2015 from the Year 2000. (Business Insider)
• Coming Data Deluge Means You’ll Know Anything You Want, Anytime, Anywhere. (SingularityHub)

 

Trading Links:

• 10 Legendary Investment Rules from Legendary Investors. (Zero Hedge)
• Big Banks Manipulate Physical Market Prices | The Big Picture. (Ritholtz)
• Information in Financial Markets: Who Gets It First? (Papers)
• High-Frequency Trading Payoff Tied to News. (MarketWatch)
• Oil Companies’ Predicament: Who Should Cut Production? (Wall Street Journal)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Apple figured out what caused some early iPhone 6 Plus phones to bend.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The 12 Best Business Books of All Time. (Motley Fool)
• Automation Makes Us Dumb. (Wall Street Journal)
• The Business Value of Pervasive Analytics. (Data Science Central)
• How to Get in Shape Using Psychology: 6 New Tricks from Research. (Time)
• Another Reason to Spend Money on Experiences Rather Than Things — The Positive Benefits of Anticipation. (Quartz)

 

Trading Links:

• Central Bank Credibility … Now Here's a Bubble. (Forbes)
• ▶ Masters in Business Podcast: Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban (Audio). (SoundCloud)
• 10 Reasons The Stock Market Rally Still Has Legs. (Investing)
• Putting the “Underperformance” of Active Managers in Perspective. (Pragmatic Capitalism)
• Elon Musk’s Next Mission: Internet Satellites. SpaceX, Tesla Founder Explores Venture to Make Lighter, Cheaper Satellites (Wall Street Journal)

Should I Buy It? [Flowchart]

Tis the season ...

 

via Good.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Have you seen how they teach math recently?

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Complexity of Complexity. (Strategy-Business)
• Computers Projected To Overtake Human Brain By 2020. (ValueWalk)
• This Is How Putin Rolls. (Zero Hedge)
• 17 Essential Mobile Apps for Small Business Travel. (BigIdeasBlog)
• What Democrats can learn from Republicans. (Vox)

 

Trading Links:

• Has Capitalism Reached A Turning Point? (Forbes)
• There’s Rich, Then There's the 0.01%. (Bloomberg View)
• A Peek Inside One of the World’s Most Secretive Hedge Funds. (eFinancial)
• The New Strategic Intent of Corporate Venture Capital. (CB Insights)
• Jesse Livermore's 21 Trading Rules. (Business Insider)

'Schoolhouse Rock' Bill Gets Schooled In 'SNL' Executive Order Skit

What a blast from the past!

 

He's "still just a bill sittin' on Capitol Hill," but Kenan Thompson's recent take on the classic Schoolhouse Rock! character on "Saturday Night Live" had a much harder time than "that sad little scrap of paper" from the original Saturday morning cartoon.

 

 

 

 

 

via YouTube.

 

In keeping with Obama's plan to enact executive actions on immigration reform, the president replaces the Bill with a new Schoolhouse Rock! character: the Executive Order.  In the wise words of this new addition: "I'm an executive order, and I pretty much just happen … and that's it."

 

 

Here is the original "Schoolhouse Rock!" clip.

 

 

 

 

 

via YouTube.

 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Turkeys don't often have happy Thanksgivings ...

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Are You Doing The Wrong Things Right - or the Right Things Poorly? (Forbes)
• Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity? Here are 5 reasons not to worry. (Vox)
• A Manifesto for Playing God with Human Evolution. (New Scientist)
• The Divorce-Proof Marriage. (The Atlantic)
• This Website Will Tell You Which Stores Have the iPhone 6 in Stock. (Time)

 

Trading Links:

• Inside The 2014 Forbes 400: Facts And Figures About America's Wealthiest. (Forbes)
• Raising Capital: The Advice Andreessen Horowitz Gives Its Founders. (A16z)
• CyberCriminals Eye Financial Markets for a Better Return On Investment. (FT)
• Banks Agree Not to Blow Each Other Up Too Quickly. (Bloomberg View)
• Images Showing How Surprisingly Small One Year's Worth of Mined Commodities Is. (BusinessInsider)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

We just landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time.

One reason you should care is that Space Mining will be big business in the near future.

Here are other reasons why it matters.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Science Behind Jeff Bezos’ Pizza Rule. (Business Insider)
• Why People Love Costco-Sized Portions. (The Atlantic)
• 7 Practical Life Lessons from Albert Einstein. (Lifehack)
• People Really Do Look Like Their Dogs, And Here's Why. (HuffingtonPost)
• Malware Traffic Could Forewarn of International Conflicts. (MIT Technology Review)

 

Trading Links:

• “Internet of Things” Will Become Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market by 2020. (Infoworld)
• US Financial Industry Launches Platform To Thwart Cyber-Attacks . (FT)
• Meet The PayPal Mafia, The Richest Group Of Men In Silicon Valley. (BusinessInsider)
• Organized Crime Pays. (Vice)
• This Man's Job: Make Bill Gates Richer. The Secretive Money Manager Helping Gates' Fortune Balloon to $82 Billion (Wall Street Journal)