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The Universal Hot vs Crazy Matrix - A Man's Guide to Women

Thought this was funny.  Hope you enjoy it too.

Care to guess where my wife fits?

 

 

YouTube.

There is even merchandise ... and a much shorter women's guide to men.

A Scary Chart That Questions the Future Economic Power of the U.S.

By 2030, more than 70 percent of people will live in cities.  In many respects, these cities matter a lot more than the countries that they’re in.

Mega-city clusters will dominate the world economy.  In many countries, the capital city or financial center often represents up to half or more of the national GDP.  By 2030, we could have as many as 50 such urban hubs anchoring the global system. 

What does this map tell us?

 

Parag Khanna via Washington Post.

 

This map attempts to accurately represent not only where people will be, but also the economic value of what they will do.  It looks at the entire world’s population and plots it by density, and then superimposes the largest urban archipelagos, the mega-cities, with those ovals to show the value of those cities vis-à-vis the national economy. 

It isn't as hard to predict as you might guess.  To predict the number of 18-year-olds in fifteen years, start with the number of 3-year-olds now.

Kind of scary?

There is opportunity in knowledge.

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Just a saw an interesting Elon Musk quote:  "Boil things down to the most fundamental truths, and reason up from there."

 

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How to Build a Culture of Originality. (Harvard Business Review)
• 9 Influential Speeches that Changed the World. (BusinessInsider)
• Jet App Allows You to Share Flights with Celebrities. (CNBC)
• Questions, Answers on New Rules for Americans Visiting Cuba. (AP News)
• One of the World's Top Aging Researchers Has a Pill to Keep You Feeling Young. (FastCo)

 

Trading Links:

• Fintech’s Tipping Point is Imminent, New Report Says. (CoinTelegraph)
• BANK of AMERICA: Long Robots, Short Humans. (BusinessInsider)
• The Uberization of Banking. (Wall Street Journal)
• A 40-Person Startup Just Bought a 1,100-Person Company, Because 2016. (Mashable)
• For Stan Druckenmiller this is "The Endgame" - His Full 'Apocalyptic' Presentation. (ZeroHedge)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Somebody has to win the election.  16sucks.com hopes it will be them, by selling "Everybody sucks" 2016 campaign signs to America's feeling about the two presumed main contestants for the presidency in November. 

Presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's net "strongly unfavorable" rating is hovering at about 37% these days (around 5% higher than the previous high for candidates getting close to the general election), according to FiveThirtyEight.

Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump makes Clinton look beloved. His "strongly unfavorable" rating is sitting at about 53%, which is off-the-charts awful for a candidate who is supposed to compete for the White House. 

  

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 4 Hard Questions to Ask about Your Company’s Purpose. (HBR)
• 25 Geniuses Who are Creating the Future of Business. (Wired)
• Can You Get Hacked Mid-Air? The Answer Is YES. (USAToday)
• Aging Runners Find Help for a Question: How Slow Will I Get? (NYT)
• 36 Pictures to See Which Muscle You’re Stretching. (LifeHack)

 

Trading Links:

• How Buyers React When Prices Rise and Fall. (New York Times)
• This is Why People Get Addicted to Gambling. (The Conversation)
• Hedge Fund Outflows Will Reach at Least $25 Billion this Year. (Fortune)
• "A Scramble for Gold Has Begun". (ZeroHedge)
• A Clever Algorithm Generating Millions of Random Ideas is Turning the Tables on Patent Trolls. (Quartz)

Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States

Medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death according to Johns Hopkins.

 

via Washington Post.

 

What?

Hope you stay well enough to stay out of the medical system.

 

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

A reminder ... Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Michael Bloomberg Could Make Donald Trump President. (Slate)
• Why People Are Confused About What Experts Really Think. (NYTimes)
• "Memory Hackers" Shows The Future Of Memory Manipulation. (FastCo)
• Malcolm Gladwell: This Is How You Develop True Expertise. (Inc)
• Artificial Intelligence. Computers are being taught to learn, reason and recognize emotions. In these talks, look for insights -- as well as warnings. (TED Playlist)

Trading Links:

• VC Expects that Most Companies Will Eventually Pay an Amazon 'Tax'. (Insider)
• The Hottest A.I. Companies Making Waves Across Industries. (LTP)
• U.S. Budget Deficit Falls to Lowest Level Since August 2008. (WSJ)
• How Soon We Forget: Investors Lost $1.78 Trillion In Year's First Six Weeks. (Time)
• A Financial Road Map For 2016: "The Potential For Chaotic Fluctuations Is Greater Than Ever". (ZeroHedge)

The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes

Innovation comes in many forms. I often challenge my research team to come at the edge-finding process differently. For example, how can you tell what’s happening in the stock market (or in your portfolio) without looking at the market?

As an example, I might ask how we could determine the number of people in a room, without using sight?  To answer, you could: ask; use heat signatures; detect the number of heartbeats, etc.  The point is, there is usually a way if you want it badly enough. 

The story and video below captured my attention … and admiration. 

Hope you enjoy it.

 

Diagnosed with retinal cancer at the age of two, Ben Underwood had his eyes removed at the age of three.

Still, he was able to detect the location of objects by making frequent clicking noises with his tongue. He used it to accomplish such feats as running, playing basketball, riding a bicycle, rollerblading, playing football, and skateboarding.

Check out the video.

 

 

 

Via CBS News.

He died just before his 17th birthday; but his life is still an inspiration.

For more, watch this.

What Knee Surgery Reminded Me About Technology

This week, my son had knee surgery.  It made me remember my knee surgery from three years ago ... And, it reminded me about what technology makes possible.

Before my knee surgery, I wasn't enjoying the prospect of the needles, the knock-out drugs, the cutting, or the recovery process.  Frankly, I was scared.

 

 

History is littered with tales of once-rare resources made plentiful by innovation. The reason is pretty straightforward ... scarcity is often contextual.

Imagine a giant orange tree packed with fruit. If you pluck all the oranges from the lower branches, you are effectively out of accessible fruit. From that limited perspective, oranges are now scarce. But once someone invents a piece of technology called a ladder, the problem is solved.

Here is a picture from inside my knee (unlike years ago, they didn't have to rip me open to gain access for the picture or the repair). Less damage, less time, less drugs, less recovery.

 

 

Bottom-Line: I walked over 2,500 steps the day after the surgery.  This time, my son and I had a burger on the way home from his surgery.

Whether it is minimally invasive surgical instruments, or linking big data and elastic computing ... Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism. It can make the 'once scarce' the 'now abundant' (or 'readily accessible') ... and a lot less painful.

Pretty Cool!

How You'll Probably Die, Visualized

Bad news sells.  All the talk of bombings, health scares, and obituaries can make a person contemplate their impending death.

 

Good news ... There is an infographic for that.

Flowing Data has previously visualized when we'll die and how our loved ones will die.  Now, they have put together an interactive infographic that charts out how you will likely die, based on how many years you've lived.

 via Flowing Data.

Here's how it works: go to the infographic on the Flowing Data page and enter your sex, race, and age into the blanks at the top of the infographic. On the left side, each dot represents the death of a simulated self, and the color of each dot corresponds to a cause of death (infection, cancer, circulatory problems, external causes, etc.). As each year passes, more of your simulated selves die. On the right side, a bar graph keeps tabs on your cumulative percentages. When the animation ends (at year 100), you're left with the percent likelihood that you will die of each cause.

It's an interesting way to visualize the data because it shows not only your chances of dying from a certain disease but your likelihood of dying in general during certain phases of your life.

The results have one pretty obvious takeaway—your chances of dying increase as you age—but it's fascinating to watch how the chances change in different age groups. Shift the age to 0, and you'll see that once you get past year one, the dots accumulate slowly over the next few decades (chances of death, from anything, are low). Past 30, the dots change color more quickly (you get the point).

Ultimately, we all have to go one way or another.

Let's just hope it is later.

2015 Was an Amazing Year for Science [Video]

Lots of people thought last year was tough.  

There were lots of great things too.

Here is a quick video highlighting some of the amazing breakthroughs achieved in science and technology.

Fun to watch ... Lot's of innovative ideas.

 

 

 

via Yahoo News.