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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Here's a bumper sticker slogan that rings true more often than you might want.

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Seven Truths about Change to Lead & Live By. by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (HBR)
• Good List of 100+ Useful Infographic Tools & Resources. (DailyTekk)
• A Blast from the Past: The New Use for Dormant Fiber from the Dot-Com Boom. (TD)
• ‘Ender’s Game’ Launches Production Blog. A Great Book for a Movie. (MoviesBlog)
• Five Leadership Lessons from Captain Kirk. Knowledge from the heavens ... or at least from the Starfleet. (Forbes)

 

Trading Links:

• How 9 Tech Giants Traded Just After Going Public [INFOGRAPHIC]. (Mashable)
• Tech IPO Pipeline: 65 + Startups with $100 Million+ Valuations Since 1/11. (CBI)
• New Kinds of Funds for Commodities. (WSJ)
• Why Do Investors Sometimes Make Bad Investment Choices? (KnowWPCarey)
• Billionaire: "All I Know About Investing In Startups I Learned Playing Poker". (Insider)

A Little Monday Morning Motivation

Wow, how time flies!

 

via someecards.com

 

The 1st Quarter of the year is almost in the books.  How are things going?

Spring is an excellent reminder that I was supposed to get in shape before spring.

Here Are Links for Your Weekend Reading

Energy Policy and Green Energy have been in the news recently.  Here is a cartoon poking fun at the situation.  It's called "Feeding the Federal Furnace."

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

Lighter Links:

• The Five Stages of Strategic Grief. (HBR)
• Reid Hoffman's 10 Rules for Entrepreneurial Success. (Entrepreneur)
• 6 Surprising Things Social Media Can Predict. Why to mine social media. (TheWeek)
• Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France. (WashingtonPost)
• DataViz Tool Shows You Gaping Holes In Your Password Security.  Scary Cool. (FastCo)

 

Trading Links:

• Everything That's Wrong With the Economy in 1 PowerPoint Slide. (TheStreet)
• Central Banks' $9 Trillion Is Global Economic Lifeline. (USAToday)
• Bye-Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution. (RobertReich)
• School for Quants: Learning to Calculate Our Future. (FT)
• Amazon Faces Taxing Times. After losing the battle to avoid collecting sales taxes, investors may learn why it fought so hard for so long. (WSJ)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

 

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Information Avalanche. More Info Doesn’t Always Lead to Better Understanding. (HBR)
• 'Personal Cloud' to Replace PC by 2014, Says Gartner. (Wired)
• The Social Credit Card. AmEx Syncs With Twitter To Turn #Hashtags Into Savings (FC)
• Partners in ‘Slime’: Feds Keep Buying Ammonia-Treated Ground Beef. (TheDaily)
• A Gut-Check for Many Ailments. What's going on in your head may be caused partly by what's happening in your gut. (WSJ)

 

Trading Links:

• Apple Woulda-Coulda Had the Dow at 15,290. (Businessweek)
• Banks and Consumers Are Adopting Tablets Faster Than Expected. (HuffingtonPost)
• How America’s Richest Companies Invest Their Cash. (247WallSt)
• Finance Isn’t as Amoral as It Seems. By Robert Shiller. (Bloomberg)
• Top Secret: The Chinese Envoy’s Briefing Paper on Australia’s Economy. (NakedCapitalism)

Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

 

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Here Is Why To-Do Lists Don't Work. (HarvardBusinessReview)
• The Nine Flavors of Windows 8 Show How Microsoft & Apple Differ. (TechCrunch)
• Music Bloodline is a Great Music Discovery Tool for Spotify Users. (Gizmodo)
• Posing the Question: What Is Competitive Yoga? (TheDaily)
• Firefox Plug-in Reveals The Small Army Stalking You On The Web. Try this real-time visualization to reveal the parade of spies tracking you. Cool but Scary. (FastCoDesign)

 

Trading Links:

• Buy-and-Hold Can’t Die. (AlephBlog)
• What’s Behind the High Gas Prices at the Pump? (Mint)
• You Hear That?  It's Quiet ... Too Quiet. (Wall Street Journal)
• David Stockman: 'You'd Be a Fool to Hold Anything But Cash Now'.  (BizInsider)
• Our New Financial Overlord? IBM’s ‘Jeopardy!’-Winning Artificial Brain Gets a Job on Wall Street. (TheDaily)

Check-Out This Official Notice of Formal Apology

As a public service, I am sharing this Formal Apology from the Bureau of Communication.

 

 

 

 

Failure to use it has consequences.

For example, have you seen this video of what an angry father can do to his daughter's laptop?

 

 

 

Do you applaud the standard he is trying to teach her ... or are you tempted to call Child Protective Services?

If she had just used the apology form ...

 

Related articles

• Police visit Facebook dad who shot daughter's laptop (news.cnet.com)
• Dad Who Shot Daughter's Laptop, Gets Visit from Child Protective Services (blippitt.com)
• Dad draws raves, reprimands for answering daughter's Facebook rant with nine .45 rounds in her laptop (mercurynews.com)

Are You an Optimist, Pessimist, Realist or Opportunist?

A simple explanation of what happens in the Market.

 

 

 

 

Are you an Optimist, Pessimist, Realist or Opportunist?

Funny Video: Using "S*** Happens" to Explain Economics

You don't normally see an economist do a stand-up routine.

And you could assume that economist Yoram Bauman doesn't usually swear while giving a speech ... but it's unavoidable in this routine ("S*** happens: the economics version").

 

 

This take-off on the old joke about explaining world religions (using the same construct) was filmed at the 2012 American Economic Association humor session.

It's even a little funny that the AEA had a humor session.

Click here for more Stand-up Economist videos.

Related articles

• What's so funny about money? (newscientist.com)
• Interview with Stand Up economist Yoram Bauman (calculatedriskblog.com)

Social Media Explained with Donuts

So much social media ... so little time.

This photo of a whiteboard (titled "Social Media Explained") went viral on many social networks last week.

So, chances are you've seen it.  If not, it's worth a glance.

Simple, clever, and so true.

 

 

For me, Twitter is a serendipity engine;  I dip into it and hope to find something cool. LinkedIn is a bit more serious and I often find a link worth spending some time reading.  While Facebook is a guilty pleasure, where I browse to catch-up on what people are doing and to get a glimpse into their lifestyle and interests.  The rest ... (and texting) ... not so much.

What about you?

Related articles

• 10 Social Media Tips for Bloggers (mashable.com)
• Your Friends Are Now Your Customers (blogs.hbr.org)

Expect Extraordinary - Here's a Video of Something Not to Try at Home

Sometimes normal isn't enough.

Playing safe is often a good strategy ... But, sometimes you have to expect the extraordinary.

Did you see the strange guy doing a modified tight-rope circus routine during Madonna's Super Bowl half-time performance.

 

 

 

 
Well, it was more than that ... did you see the guy bounce up and down as though that little rope was a trampoline?

What in the world was going on?

Well, the short answer is: slacklining. Or, if you want to get technical and specific, tricklining. According to California's Adventure Sports Journal , slacklining was invented in the early 1980s by two rock climbers.

As you may have guessed, the Super Bowl halftime cameo was a big moment for the young sport of slacklining—and for the talented, curly-haired slackliner who got the spotlight: Andy Lewis, aka Sketchy Andy . You've got to watch what he can really do!

 

 

 

Imagine what went into developing this skill.  Was it thought ... or something you forgot you could exercise?

What are you committed to expecting extraordinary about ... starting now?

Related articles

• Acrobatic Urban Films - The 'Slackline Trickline Video and Project X' is Full of Stunts (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
• About Slacklining (neatorama.com)