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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:

• 100 Top Inspirational Quotes. (Forbes)
• 23 Signs You're Secretly An Introvert. (HuffingtonPost)
• 99 Life Hacks That Could Make Your Life Easier. (AG)
• 40 Useful Sites to Learn New Skills. (Marc&Angel)
• 30 Inspirational Songs to Keep You Motivated. (Lifehack)

 

Trading Links:

• U.S. Rethinks How to Release Sensitive Economic Data. (Wall Street Journal)
• Which of These 11 American Nations Do You Live In? (WashingtonPost)
• Mapping Investor Behavior. (AllAboutAlpha)
• A Twitter User Is Worth $110; Facebook's $98; LinkedIn's $93. (Forbes)
• A Proposal To Limit Swiss Executive Pay To 12 Times That Of Low-Paid Employees Has Some Worried. (BusinessInsider)

Here Are Some Links to Start Your Week

You can learn a lot by watching puppies.  Barley, here, is sporting the "Cone of Shame" ... which was our attempt to stop him from licking his nether-region till it was swollen and raw.

 

 

Despite our best efforts, Barley has figured-out how to contort his body and use his prehensile tongue to get the job done anyway.

I guess Charles Darwin was right ... "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

 

 

 

Most find a way to get what they must have.

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How Visionaries See the Future. (PandoDaily)
• Reframing Failure as Intentional Iteration. The secret to success may be trying more stuff. (IAC)
• This Quick Trick Can Vastly Improve The iPhone's Fingerprint Scanner. (HuffPost)
• Top Spotify Playlists for Your Every Mood. (Mashable)
• The Top Five Vitamins You Should Not Take. (Forbes)

 

Trading Links:

• Goldman Expects More Banks To Be Like Goldman Next Year. (Quartz)
• Palantir, a Big Data Tech Company, Raises $100MM at a $9 Billion Valuation. (NYTimes)
• 12 Smart Money Moves to Make Before the End of 2013. (Forbes)
• 15 Highest Paid CEOs in America. (BusinessInsider)
• Minimum Wage Was Once Enough To Keep a Family of 3 Out of Poverty. How much do you think is now needed? - (The Atlantic)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Stores are becoming showrooms for consumers to find items to buy online.

Coming into Black Friday, a new version of the the increasingly popular game "Internet Destruction" is about to let consumers take another shot at destroying Retailing (like they have already done to newspapers, magazines, music and book publishing).

    

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Last Thing We Want is Real Artificial Intelligence. (Harvard Business Review)
• Stephen Hawking Predicts Uploading the Brain into a Computer. (KurzweilAI)
• Why You Should Never Kiss a Pig. And other wisdom from a Nobel Prize-winner. (Mother Jones)
• 9 Philosophical Thought Experiments That Will Keep You Up at Night. (Io9)
• Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014. (Forbes)

 

Trading Links:

• Richest 1 Percent Hold 46 Percent Of The World's Wealth. (HuffingtonPost)
• Top 12 Wealthiest Countries. (ThinkAdvisor)
• PC Sales Fall to Lowest Level for Five Years. (Telegraph)
• The 10 Stealth Economic Trends That Rule the World Today. (The Atlantic)
• Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: Algorithmic trading is changing the way the stock market game is played. (TechDirt)

 

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

The Markets are up and the Government is open again; so everything must be fine.

 

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Daily Routines of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs and How to Design Yours. (BufferApp)
• Richard Feynman: Eccentric Genius on Life, the Universe and Everything. (Telegraph)
• We've Found Water on Mars—Two pints per cubic foot of soil, to be exact. (Newser)
• If We Meet Aliens: What to Do? The Ethics of Interstellar Encounters. (Discovery)
• 10 Siri Tricks To Help You Be Your Most Productive Self. (Openforum)

 

Trading Links:

• Why Every Small Employer Should Sign Up For Obamacare's SHOP Exchange. (Forbes)
• T. Boone Pickens No Longer a Billionaire - Forbes List. (BusinessInsider)
• High-Frequency Trading: Business Gets Tough for Wall Street Gunslingers. (FT)
• This Sociological Theory Explains Why Wall Street Is Rigged for Crisis. (The Atlantic)
• Twitter I.P.O. May Set Stage for Resurgence in Tech Offerings. (NYTimes)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

The new red line hurting our government ...

 

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Get Your Team To Fail More – and why that is a good thing. (Harvard Business Review)
• U.S. Says Iran Hacked Navy Computers. (Wall Street Journal)
• That Time Vladimir Putin Beat a U.S. Congressman In a Drunken Arm-Wrestling Match. (Slate)
• Why Your Parents Hate Your Spouse. Hint: it’s all about the genes. (TIME)
• Timelapse of the Imperceptible Effects of Aging Created from Family Portraits. (Colossal)

 

Trading Links:

• The New Forbes 400 for 2013: Facts and Figures on America's Richest. (Forbes)
• How Every NFL Owner Made Their Money. (The Week)
• Derivatives Trading Safer and More Efficient, Says Citadel. (FT)
• Home Prices Surged Across U.S. in July, up 21% in L.A. (LATimes)
• Lessons From Sun Tzu's The Art Of War For Your Trading. (BigTrends)

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Speaking of dangerous Red Lines ...

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Siri Gets Sassy With Swipes At Google Glass. (AppAdvice)
• The NSA Machine: Too big for anyone to understand. (Yahoo News)
• Dolphins Name Themselves. They also answer to those chosen ‘names’ (ScienceNews)
• Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning. (BrainPickings)
• Not Science Fiction: A Brain In A Box To Let People Live On After Death. Would you want to live in a robotic body? (FastCo)

 

Trading Links:

• We Don't Need a Brilliant Fed Chairman. What is important for this job? (Slate)
• Only 43% of Americans Pay Federal Income Taxes. (CNN/Money)
• Asset Allocation Strategies Compared. (MebaneFaber)
• Apple Fingers Payment Revolution. (Forbes)
• 2020 Future Value Chain Trends - Building Strategies for the New Decade. (Husdal)

Hans Rosling: Here's How Data Can Solve the World's Most Challenging Problems

Swedish academic and Gapminder Foundation co-founder Hans Rosling says data doesn't always back up our conceptions about the world.

In the video, below, Rosling explains that our ideas about developed and developing countries largely reflect the reality of fifty years ago, rather than today.

   

This video, The River of Myth, was released to coincide with Bill Gates' annual letter, and shares its emphasis on the power of measuring to achieve progress.

  

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Why washing machines are important [Hans Rosling TED Talk]

Han Rosling's View of the World Through Public Data on Live Expectancy Vs. Income

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Some people are reacting like Bernanke said "On the count of three ... run."

 

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

Lighter Links:

• Audible Inspiration: Work Smarter by Listening to These 7 Great TED Talks. (Mindjet)
• The World’s Top 100 Most Innovative Organizations. (Thomson Reuters)
• What Could the NSA Do With a Quantum Computer? (NewStatesman)
• Mmm Mmm Good? First taste of test-tube burger declared 'close to meat'. (Reuters)
• The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements. (The Atlantic)

 

Trading Links:

• Could Geithner End Up the Next Fed Chairman? (Bloomberg)
• Wall Street Pros Believe a Fall Taper is Already Priced Into Markets. (CNBC)
• 80 Percent of U.S. Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment: Survey. (HuffingtonPost)
• The Undisputed Champion? Guess who won the post-crisis recovery? Banks. (ReformedBroker)
• Goldman Sachs: Creative Destruction. The 8 Extraordinary Technologies Forcing Businesses To Adapt Or Die (BusinessInsider)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

When was the last time you called your Mother?

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Luck In Business. What can you do to deal with uncertainty better?  (Fortune)
• Six Things to Put on Your To-Not-Do List. (Forbes)
• The Role Human Judgment Plays In Creating and Managing Algorithms. (Aeon)
• Why Don't Airplanes Fly Faster?  Economic Lift and Drag. (Medium)
• Meet GeoGuessr, a fun little Web game about global geography you haven’t played yet. (TNW)

 

Trading Links:

• Buffett’s Career in Less Than 1000 Words. (AlephBlog)
• When Economists Agree, Start Worrying. (Wall Street Journal)
• Using Big Data to Combat Big Risk. (Advanced Trading)
• 5 Reasons the Government Fails at Venture Capital. (Forbes)
• Jim Rogers. "I Suspect They'll Take The Pension Plans Next; I For One Am Worried, and I'm Taking Preparations" (BullMarketThinking)

Should You Eat That [Infographic Humor]

My wife has been away ... and the minimum standards in our house have shifted.

Sometimes my son and I look at each other and ask: "Should I eat this?"

Here are some simple rules to help if you find yourself asking the same question.

 

 via FakeScience.

Well, that certainly gives an answer ... not sure it's the right one?

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