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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:

• How The Future Is Really Built. (Innovation Excellence)
• Debate: Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb? (NPR)
• Miracle Grow for Your Brain. (Farnam Street)
• The 70 Coolest New Buildings in the World. (Insider)
• How Lebron James' Trainer Gets Him From One Herculean Effort To Next. (CBS Sports)

 

Trading Links:

• The Information Age Is Over. Welcome to the Infrastructure Age. (Gizmodo)
• Presenting De-Dollarization In One Simple Map. (ZeroHedge)
• Three Reasons Apple Should Acquire IBM. (Forbes)
• How Tesla Will Change The World. (Wait But Why)
• In Rare Admission of Guilt, Wall St. Banks Say They Rigged Markets. (CBS)

How Naming Things Make You Smarter

This video is about how my son finally got smarter than our dog.

 

 

 

via YouTube. 

It is also about how language (and naming things) leads to wisdom, progress, and innovation.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Did you have fun filling out your taxes?

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Expansive Qualities of Genius. (Evoking Genius)
• The Art of Performance Management and KPIs. (BCG Perspectives)
• Scientists Discovered How Much Sex Happy Couples Have Every Month. (Insider)
• Why We Love Back Rubs, Chili Peppers, and the Sex from “50 Shades”. (Salon)
• 20 of Steven Wright's Funniest Jokes. (MentalFloss)

 

Trading Links:

• Bull Session: How to De-Risk in a Bull Market. (Institutional Investor)
• AT&T dumped by Dow. Time to buy?  History suggests it's worth a look. (A.M.)
• Why American Airlines Just Landed In The S&P 500 Index. (ValueWalk)
• Hotels Near Record Occupancy Levels.  Is that a Good Sign for the Economy? (CalculatedRisk)
• Wall Street's Biggest Banks May Have To Make Good On $26 Billion In Oil Hedges. (ZeroHedge)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

According to the President, the new three branches of government are ... me, myself, and I.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Power of Checklists. (Art of Manliness)
• The Most Thought Provoking Articles of the Year. (Brain Pickings)
• The Secret Meanings Behind 40 Brand Logos. (Marketing Land)
• The Science of Misheard Lyrics. (New Yorker)
• Why We Love Back Rubs, Chili Peppers, and the Sex from “50 Shades”. (Salon)

 

Trading Links:

• Saudi Arabia 'Engineered' Oil Crisis: Says Dallas Fed Chief. (Money)
• A Few Things To Know About Technical Analysis. (Stock Charts)
• Meet The Man Who Wants To Build The ESPN Of Finance. (HuffPost)
• A Netflix for Private Flights: A Members-Only Airline. (Fast Company)
• AT&T Dumped by Dow. Time to Buy? History suggests it's worth a look. (Markets)

Mana Lisa's Smile (Nope, It's not a typo)

Mana Lisa had a strange smile ... and eyes that seemed to follow you around the room.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Sometimes you don't recognize when the journey starts ... other times you do.

 

 — with Ming Alihan at MAD Museum of Art & Design, Singapore.

 

And sometimes you have to go half way around the world, just to get to the starting line.

Best wishes on all your journeys.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Sometimes things are stuck.  Other times they are not.  Here is all you need to know.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Make Your Willpower Stronger -- According to Science. (Io9)
• Fear Artificial Stupidity, Not Artificial Intelligence. (New Scientist)
• Commonly Misspelled or Misused Words.  [infographic]
• 100 Ideas That Changed the Web. (BrainPickings)
• How The World Will Look In 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Years Time. (FC)

 

Trading Links:

• Google Searches for a Way to Avoid Microsoft’s Fate. (The Guardian)
• Apple Pay Is Already Much Bigger Than You Thought. (BGR)
• 122 Things Everyone Should Know About Investing and the Economy. (Motley Fool)
• 5 Future Scenarios That Will Change How You Think About Money. (MarketWatch)
• The New Reality. China just 3D-printed an entire mansion. Here’s what it looks like. (TechInAsia)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Most people say they want the unpleasant truth, rather than the comforting lie ...

 

 

What do you think?

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking Warn of Artificial Intelligence Dangers. (Mashable)
• An Open Letter to Everyone Tricked Into Fearing Artificial Intelligence. (Popular Science)
• 70's Rock Legends In Their Parents' Homes! [Photos]. (Peewee)
• The Hair of Men: What Hairstyle is Best for You. [infographic]
• How Exercise Changes Our DNA. (NYTimes)

 

Trading Links:

• US Debt Soared By $100 Billion on Last Day of 2014, Hit Record $18.14 Trillion. (ZH)
• Chinese Attacks Cost U.S. Defense Department Over $100M. (GigaOM)
• The Real Story Behind Saudi Arabia's Oil Games. (Money)
• After Warning About 2008, Yale's Robert Shiller Has Another Concern. (Valuewalk)
• Countries Begin The Race To Repatriate Their Gold. Are They Concerned About a Potential Financial Crisis? (Valuewalk)

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

Hope you are having a Happy New Year!

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Form a Habit:  A Scientific Approach. (Sqwiggle)
• What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020. (Harvard Business Review)
• The Unusual Books That Shaped Billionaires and Prodigies. (Tim Ferriss)
• Kermit the Frog Gives a TEDx Talk, and Twitter Loves It. (TED)
• Why Sadness Lasts Longer Than Other Emotions. (BPS Research Digest)

 

Trading Links:

• 2014 Portfolio Review: What Strategies Worked & What Didn’t? (PragCap)
• David Tepper Warns 2015 Is Poised To Be Like 1999. (ValueWalk)
• Saudis Tell Shale Industry It Will Break Them; Plans to Keep Pumping. (NakedCap)
• The Leading Robo-Advisers Now Manage $19 Billion and Continue to Grow. (BI)
• Florida Becomes 3rd Largest State Following CA & TX, NY Drops to 4th; Political Implications. (Global Economic Analysis)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

Here is a picture of Obama rocking a tiara like the leader of the free world should.

 

 

(h/t JB via ABC News)

The president understood that he was broke a cardinal presidential rule.  "Here’s the general rule," Obama explained: "You don’t put stuff on your head if you’re president.  That’s politics 101. You never look good wearing something on your head."

Chief White House photographer Pete Souza posted a photo to Instagram showing the president donning a tiara alongside a group of Girl Scouts from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Some things you find on the internet actually happened.

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The 25 Top Personal Development Leaders of 2014. (Success)
• 22 Pictures That Prove That 2014 Is Already the Future. (Buzzfeed)
• See the Most Beautiful Data Visualizations of 2014. (Fastcocreate)
• 5 Most Insidious Conspiracy Theories of 2014. (Alternet)
• The 20 Best Songs of 2014. How many do you know? (Vulture)

 

Trading Links:

• Citigroup to Move Headquarters to U.S. Capitol Building. (New Yorker [Humor])
• The Federal Government Now Employs the Fewest People Since 1966. (RTE)
• Top Market Themes for 2015. (Goldman Sachs)
• Frequent - But Inefficient. HFT might reduce liquidity, not boost it. (Economist)
• A Good Problem to Have During the Holidays: Vatican Finds Hundreds of Millions of Euros 'Tucked Away'. (Reuters)