Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately. These are the links I saved this week.

Hope you find some interesting and enjoyable tidbits.

Let me know if you read something I'd like … Or if there are other sources I should add to my weekly reading.

Thanks.

Lighter Links:

• Artificial Intelligence Has to Deal with Its Transparency Problems.(TNW)
• It’s this Easy to Look inside an Algorithm. (FastCoD)
• Ten Authentic Leadership Practices. (Forbes)
• How to Train Your Brain to Go Positive instead of Negative. (Forbes)
• Putin’s Paradise. (City-journal)
• Remembering Manuel Noriega and His Capture. (WOTR)
• How Much Mormonism Has Changed. (BCC)
• Trump’s Meddlesome Priest. (New York Times)
• Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our Species. (NYT)
• How the D-Day Invasion Was Planned. (PopularMechanics)
• The New IMac Pro is Apple’s Most Bonkers Computer Ever. (Wired)
• Google’s AlphaGo Beats the World’s Best Go Player — Again.(WashPost)
• Football 3.0 is Coming. This is What It Will Look Like. (SBNation)
• An Excavation of One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections.(FiveThirtyEight)
• Turns Out, a Horrifying Number of People Use Their Phones While Driving. (Wired)
• The 9-Minute Strength Workout. (New York Times)
• Science Asks: is Your Dog Just Playing You? (Forbes)
• Interactive Map Reveals Who Has the Most Powerful Passport.(Telegraph)
• Would Your Company Pass this Stringent Good Workplace Audit?(FastCompany)
• First Class Vs. Last Class? Airlines Bolster Premium Cabin, Skimp on Economy. (WSJ)

Market-Related Links

• 17 Fintech Businesses that Could One Day Be Worth over $1 Billion.(Business Insider)
• Alternative Finance and the Rise of the Fintech Unicorn. (Forbes)
• The Most Dangerous Narratives are Usually the Smartest. (PragCap)
• ‘Alt’ Data in Emerging Markets. (MarketsMedia)
• Can a Man Responsible for $5 Trillion Convince You He’s Not Powerful?(Bloomberg)
• Craft Beer — So Hot Right Now. (Pudding)
• US Retailers are on Pace to Close More Stores in 2017 than in the 2008 Great Recession. (Quartz)
• Apple Hires Rocket Scientists as It Tries to Catch up in Driverless Cars.(WSJ)
• Bad Intelligence behind the Wheel. (Wall Street Journal)
• Glimpse the Store of the Future. (Bloomberg)
• Fintech Lures MBAs Away from Banking and Consulting. (FT)
• Bloomberg Weed Index. (Ritholtz)
• Is this the End of Venture Capital as We Know It? (VentureBeat)
• Companies of the Future: No CEO, No Boss, Managed by Blockchain.(VB)
• Netflix to Raise $1 Billion through Debt Offering to Fund New Content & ‘Strategic Transactions’. (VB)
• “The Real Corruption is the Ownership of Congress by the Rich”.(Posner)
• Watch this Larry Page-backed Flying Car Take to the Sky above a Lake. (TechCrunch)
• The Death of the Smartphone is Closer Than You Think. Here's What Comes Next. (ZDNet)
• How Hedge Fund Billionaire James Simons is Changing Math Education.(Forbes)
• BAML: the '$1 Trillion Flow that Conquers All' Explains Everything Happening in Markets. (Business Insider)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard