I love being in the presence of greatness. Genius leaves a mark.

Watching John Legend in concert is one example … seeing a team come together to create a breakthrough, and a sustainable competitive advantage is another.

Lighter Links:

• Here’s the Unofficial Silicon Valley Explainer on Artificial Intelligence.(FastCompany)
• 10 Myths about Cloud Computing. (OpenMind)
• 5 Machine Learning Trends that Will Define 2017. (CIO)
• Behind the Burger : the Fascinating History of In-N-Out. (Ceros)
• Predictions for the Future. (GeniusNetwork)
• DARPA is Planning to Hack the Human Brain to Let Us “Upload” Skills.(Futurism)
• How Successful People Stay Calm. (Forbes)
• Behind the Scenes with Tim Ferriss: His Secrets of Success. (OKDork)
• The Phones We Love Too Much. (New York Times)
• Hidden Tricks You Didn’t Know Your IPhone Could Do. (PopSci)
• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017. (TechReview)
• Why LinkedIn is about to Become Scary Good. (Inc)
• Bill Gates Tweets to New Grads: ‘This is an Amazing Time to Be Alive’.(TheLadders)
• Math Champion Wins with Answer about Pecking Chicks. (NYT)
• Watch How Elon Musk’s Boring Company Tunnels Will Move Cars Faster. (TechCrunch)
• How to Resolve Fights over Reclining Airplane Seats: Use Behavioral Economics. (Evonomics)
• Chicago Tries High-Tech Approach to Curb Violence. (WSJ)
• The Top 10 Books Every Leader Must Read. (Entrepreneur)
• 5 Questions to Ask in an Interview (Based on Psychology).(Cultivatedculture)
• George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf. (LitHub)

Market-Related Links

• As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the Universe are Threatened. (TechReview)
• Hedge Fund Managers Don’t Always Beat the Market, but They Still Know How to Make Money. (NYT)
• How to Make Decisions like Ray Dalio. (25iq)
• Billionaire Steve Cohen Hired 2 Investors from the CIA's Secretive VC Fund. (Insider)
• A Famous Venture Capitalist Predicts Big Banks Will Fall First to Artificial Intelligence. (Quartz)
• There are Bots. Look Around. (RibbonFarm)
• Ratings and Hegemony. (Rajakorman)
• Which One of these Visions of How We’ll Work in the Future Sounds Most Appealing? (FastCompany)
• This is Now the Most Popular City in the U.S. for New Businesses.(Inc)
• Platonically Irrational. (Aeon)
• Saudi Arabia Experiments with Reform Amid Economic Downturn.(Spiegel)
• ‘Moat’ is the Latest Jargon Encircling Silicon Valley. (Bloomberg)
• The New York Stock Exchange is Slowing down Trading for a Key Market. (BusinessInsider)
• Diddy is the Richest Rapper on the Planet Once Again… Dr. Dre Drops to #3!!!. (CNW)
• Three Quarters of Americans Don’t Even Know What Their Bank Does.(TheFinancialBrand)
• Capitalism 2.0: the Economy of the Future Will Be Powered by Neural Lace. (Wired)
• The Rock-Star Appeal of Modern Monetary Theory. (TheNation)
• The Bill to Permanently Fix Health Care for All. (Market-ticker)
• Silicon Valley: a Reality Check. (SlateStarCodex)
• China Launches a Pork-price Index to Smooth the “Pig Cycle”.(Economist)