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People Are Awesome - 2013 Video

People can do some pretty amazing things when they put their mind to it.

Here is a ten-minute video compilation that shows "awesome" comes in many forms.

 

 

 

Going to the gym or finishing a project doesn't seem quite as hard after watching this.

Of course, procrastinators (and the clumsy) may prefer the Fail Compilation instead.

Uncle Jay Explains: 2013 Singing Year In Review!

Silly, clever, and with a more than a hint of the truth  ... Watch as Uncle Jay sings his year-end summary of the news.

 

 

 
Uncle Jay has a website he says "helps small minds understand big news."

Happy Holiday Season, and Best Wishes for the New Year.

 

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Taking a break from your holiday mail-merge?  Here are some of the posts that caught my eye.

Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• 8 Common Mistakes in How We Think and How to Prevent Them. (Bufferapp)
• How to Become an Expert on Something (or Anything). (Bakadesuyo)
• 25+ Resources for Holiday eCards. (Mindjet)
• Caffeine Quantified: Your Favorite Coffee Chains Ranked, Weakest to Strongest. (FastCocreate)
• What's Your 'Fitness Age'? (NYTimes)

 

Trading Links:

• Morgan Stanley's 10 Big Macro Investment Ideas for 2014. (BusinessInsider)
• Greenspan: Recession is ‘small price to pay’ to fix debt. (Money)
• Paul Brodsky: "The Fed Is Holding A Burning Match". (ZeroHedge)
• Economists Are Different From You and Me. (Economix)
• Congress Uses Cartoon Video to Explain the Problems with Patent Trolls and “Legalized Extortion”. (GigaOM)

Little Drummer Boy by Pentatonix

Not typical of what I'd normally share ... But thought this was well done and timely.

 

 

 

Pentatonix were the winners of season 3 of NBC’s instrument-free music competition - 'The Sing-Off'. 

Also, here's a link to their cover of Royals.

Clever B2B Holiday Card Concept

Thought this was worth sharing.

Click the image to launch.

 

 

Happy Holidays.

Here Are Some Links to Start Your Week

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Elon Musk's 15 Business Lessons. (Incomediary)
• People Window-Shop on Their iPhones, But Actually Buy Things on Their iPads. (Qz)
• 10 Websites That Will Help You Do Your Holiday Shopping. (Lifehack)
• It's Better to Be Imperfect Than Sorry. (Harvard Business Review)
• Talk About Turning the Other Cheek: Kissing an Opponent Draws Foul In WNBA Game [VIDEO]. (BusinessInsider)

 

Trading Links:

• The Richest World Leaders Are Even Richer Than You Thought. (HuffingtonPost)
• QE-infinity Is Not Sustainable: The Elephant’s Gonna Have to Leave the Room. (AllAboutAlpha)
• Will Next Time Be Different? A Report from the 30th Cato Monetary Conference. (Economist)
• You Spent $1.2 Billion Shopping Online on Black Friday. (AllThingsD)
• Cyber Monday Brings In Record $2.29B Online Sales. More than 18% of which was purchased via a mobile device (TheNextWeb)

Alec Baldwin Puts the Fear Into Christmas with Glengarry Christmas Spoof - Elf Motivation

In Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin played a venom-spewing sales manager. His performance burned "Always Be Closing" and "Coffee is for Closers" into a generation's collective unconscious.

In the spirit of the holidays, Saturday Night Live created the spoof Glengarry Christmas - Elf Motivation ("Always Be Cobbling!"). Here it is.

 

Here is the original scene.

 

 

 

Bet that puts you in a festive mood.

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Holiday travel made better for the NSA now that the FAA allows travelers to use electronics during takeoff and landing.

  

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Best Business Leaders 2013. (BusinessInsider)
• Software Patent Reform Just Died In The House, Thanks to IBM and Microsoft. (WP)
• Why Is Turkey Cheaper When Demand Is Higher? - NYTimes. (NYTimes)
• Cyber Monday 2013: Best US Deals and Sales. (Pocket-Lint)
• Temperament is More Important than IQ. (FarnamStreetBlog)

 

Trading Links:

• Apple is Sitting on 10% of All US Corporate Cash. (Quartz)
• Thanksgiving Digest: Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales. (TechCrunch)
• Credit Card Companies Use Free Shipping as Weapon in E-Commerce Battle. (AllThingsD)
• Putting a Speed Limit on the Stock Market. (NYTimes)
• The Future of Computer Based Trading.   (Magic-Maths-Money)

"Oils" - A Thanksgivukkah Miracle (Royals Song Parody)

Thanksgiving and the first night of Hanukkah coincide this year. 

American Jews get to mix turkey, stuffing, menorahs, and dreidels with a popular song. And what better song than Lorde's "Royals?" More appropriately named "Oils," in honor of the latkas and burning candles of Thanksgivukkah.

So, here is a musical parody of the new mashup holiday, Thanksgivukkah.

 

 

 

Puritans and a different Tribe dancing the the horah while belting back some Manischewitz ... it's a Thanksgivukkah Miracle.

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Hope your week went smoother than the Obamacare launch.

   

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

Lighter Links:

• Why Hiring ‘B’ Players Kills Companies. (VentureBeat)
• Artificial Intelligence Evolves to Another Level. New Stuff from Google & Ray Kurzweil (MIT)
• Improving Predictions: How to Make Better Forecasts. (David Brook)
• A Data Scientist's Real Job: Storytelling. (Harvard Business Review)
• What If Superpowers Were Real? A series of TED lessons explore the science of flight, super speed, invisibility and more. (TED)

 

Trading Links:

• Central Banks Risk Clash of Titans. (Wall Street Journal)
• Top 40 Buffett-isms: Inspiration to Become a Better Investor. (Forbes)
• High Speed Trading Puts Investors On Losing End. (Money)
• A Generational Low in Managed Futures? (AttainCapital)
• Are There More Hedge Funds in the U.S. than Taco Bells? Does that imply fewer winners as more roll the dice? (FiscalTimes)

 

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