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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving weekend.  Times may change, but human nature doesn't.  There is a lot to be thankful for anyway!

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• CEOs On Their 'Best Mistakes'. (Business Insider)
• The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners. (HBR)
• How AI is Transforming Business [Infographic]. (Deloitte)
• How Salad Can Make Us Fat. (NYTimes)
• Research: Life Is Different For People Who Think In Metaphors. (Psych)

 

Trading Links:

• Jack Bogle: Greatly Diminished Stock Returns Ahead. (CBS)
• U.S. Dethroned as World's Billionaire Capital. (CNBC)
• IMF Seen Approving Yuan As "Reserve Currency". (ZeroHedge)
• The Man Accused of Spoofing Some of the World's Biggest Futures Exchanges. (Bloomberg)
• These Numbers Explain Why Amazon Wants to Give So Much Free Stuff to Prime Members. (BI)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Don't ask how I know, but, never laugh at your wife's choices.  Remember, you are one of them.

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 6 Ways Work Will Change In 2016. (FastCompany)
• What Peter Drucker Had to Say About Automation. (HBR)
• Japan is Building a “Robot Taxi” Service, With Thousands Planned for the 2020 Olympics. (QZ)
• Is Classical Music Irrelevant? Can It Survive The Death Of Its Listeners? (TM)
• Pretty Scary - How Close Did We Come to a US-Soviet War During the Cold War? (BI)

 

Trading Links:

• Hedge-Fund Priest: Thou Shalt Make Money. (Wall Street Journal)
• When Botox Meets Viagra: Allergen & Pfizer in Merger Talks. (LATimes)
• Even If Only for a Moment, Someone Leapfrogged Gates as World's Richest. (ValueWalk)
• Money Managers Go on Offense Against Speed Traders. (Bloomberg)
• The Trust Machine: The Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Transform How the Economy Works. (Economist)

The Past Ten Years - Apple Then and Now

Apple reported its earnings this week.  Over the past 12 months, they made a net profit of more than $53 billion.

That is significant, not just because it is a lot ... It also is more than any other company has ever made in a single year.  

The previous record of $45.2 billion was set by ExxonMobil in 2008.

As the chart illustrates, the company’s profits have increased more than 40-fold since 2005, helping Apple to become the biggest brand and the most valuable company on the planet.

via Statista. 

 

Talk about compounding edges!

By the way, recently, Steve Ballmer said: Saving Apple in 1997 was the 'Craziest Thing' Microsoft ever did.

Last Quarter, the iPhone Generated More Revenue than Google, eBay & Facebook Combined

Did you buy the new iPhone?

The scope and scale of Apple's iPhone business creates an amazing competitive advantage.

It is Apple’s largest cash cow ... and accounted for 69 percent of the company’s revenue in the 2014 holiday quarter.

But how big is BIG?  This chart compares Apple's iPhone revenue (by itself) to the total revenue of other tech companies in the most recently reported fiscal quarter.

 

via Statista.

 

For context, in the past Quarter, Apple generated more revenue selling iPhones than Google, eBay and Facebook did combined.

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

The Bank of China bought billboards advertising the RMB as the 'New Choice" for the World's Reserve Currency.

 

 

This one is just outside the airport in Bangkok Thailand.

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

 

Lighter Links:

• Persistence, Not Patience, Key To Entrepreneurship. (Mashable)
• 20 Inspirational Stephen Hawking Quotes. (Lifehack)
• 600 Years Of Global War & Peace [Chart]. (ZeroHedge)
• Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Obliterate Humanity. (PopSci)
• OneGo Will Offer Unlimited West Coast Flights for $1,500 a Month. (TechCrunch)

 

Trading Links:

• China’s Yuan Has ‘Long March’ To Reserve-Currency Status. (Marketwatch)
• Why China Devalues Its Currency | Stratfor. (Stratfor)
• ETFs Have Overtaken Hedge Funds as an Investment Vehicle. (Economist)
• GOLDMAN: ETF Assets Will Double To $6 Trillion by 2020. (BI)
• Exponential Finance: Ray Kurzweil Stresses Humanity’s ‘Moral Imperative' in Developing Artificial Intelligence. (Singularity Hub)

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

The six-year bull market has been getting carved up lately.

 

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 100 Motivational Quotes from Successful Entrepreneurs. (FN)
• Siri, How Many Questions Do You Answer Per Minute? (USAToday)
• Will You Fall in Love With Your Sex Robot? (DisInfo)
• We're Doomed: Robots Can Now Learn To Adapt To Injuries. (FC)
• Cowboys to Use Virtual Reality to Help Players in Film Study. (ESPN)

 

 

Trading Links:

• Scientists Show Future Events Decide What Happens in the Past. (SN)
• Experimenting With Virtual Reality, Financial Services Enter The Matrix. (TC)
• Real Madrid, Dallas Cowboys Top Forbes Sport Value List. (Sports)
• George Soros Says America Needs To Make Friends With China. (Insider)
• China's Building the Most Extensive Global Commercial-Military Empire In History. (Qz)

 

The New New - Something Interesting Is Happening

The game is changing.  That means what you have to do to win is changing too.

Take a look at this.  

  

 

One of the most important phrases I’ve learned to use in business is “… or something better."

Too many times, we have a specific idea of what we want - and how we want it.  Unfortunately, that focus can cause us to miss other (often better) opportunities.

The same is true for people in the roles they play and the things they do. Too often, we fall into a rut and focus on the activities and efforts that we've planned (or have always done), instead of what's possible or preferable.

One of the values that I stress here at Capitalogix is that the best way to grow the business is to grow the people. That sounds strange because so much of our business is based on technology. But the point is to continue to automate, delegate, or outsource things that we used to do … so that we can do something better.

Something to think about!

Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

California's Drought is creating a new Gold Rush.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• How Machine Learning Will Fuel Huge Innovation Over The Next 5 Years. (VentureBeat)
• Truths & Illusions: The Profound Importance of Thinking Fast and Slow. (HuffPost)
• Why Sadness Lasts Longer Than Other Emotions. (BPS Research Digest)
• George Zimmer on His 'Uber for Tailors'. On-demand tailoring service. (Esquire)
• When ‘Moneyball’ Meets Medicine. (NYTimes) 

 

Trading Links:

• Dear Future Self, Are you Rich? Are You Wealthy? (Medium)
• Eight Reasons You Make Bad Financial Decisions. (The Guardian)
• Supercomputers Make Discoveries That Scientists Can't. (NewScientist)
• Billionaires Versus Big Oil. Betting on new tech that could displace fossil fuels (Fortune)
• Jamie Dimon Is Now a Billionaire, and He Got There in an Unusual Way. (Bloomberg) 

Here Are Some Links For Your Weekend Reading

The Democrats' Dream Ticket is really about Republicans ... Imagine if Trump and Palin ran together.

 

   

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

 

Lighter Links:

• 20 Leadership Experts Share Their Best Leadership Tip. (Inc.)
• How to Motivate Yourself: 3 Steps Backed By Science. (Read)
• Cowboys to Use Virtual Reality in Practice & Film Study. (ESPN & Engadget)
• Just Say No To Digital Hoarding. (Washington Post)
• Amazon Says That It Now Adds Computing Power On a Daily Basis That’s Equivalent to Its Entire Capacity Just 10 Years Ago. (The Atlantic) 

 

Trading Links:

• Five Top VCs Predict The Future. (Forbes)
• Bitcoin Index Called 'Stepping Stone' For Currency. (CNBC)
• Wall Street, Meet Block Chain — Investing 2.0. (Medium)
• IMF Paper Finds That Too Much Finance is Bad for Growth. (NakedCapitalism)
• Cashless Society: This country wants to ban the use of cash in stores. Economists love the idea of a cashless society. So, increasingly, do consumers. (Fortune) 

Weekend Links

Hillary Clinton may have to deal with more fall-out from her deleted e-mail fiasco.

 

 

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

 

Lighter Links:

• The Economist Explains: The End of Moore's Law. (Economist)

• Big Data Explained in Less Than 2 Minutes - To Absolutely Anyone. (DSC)

• A Preliminary Taxonomy of the Voices Inside Your Head. (Digest)

• Disney’s Research Lab Figures Out How To Put Words In Your Mouth. (TechCrunch)

• 'What I Would Tell My 20-Year-Old Self'.  (Fortune)

 

Trading Links:

• Tech Boom 2015: What's Driving Investor Insanity? (Forbes)

• This Is Your Brain on Money: How Investors Trip Themselves Up. (WSJ)

• These 2 Simple Slides Show Just How Hot FinTech Is Right Now. (BizInsider)

• Soros Says China Is Major Risk For World War 3. (ValueWatch)

• China’s Yuan Has ‘Long March’ To Reserve-Currency Status. (MarketWatch)