Fact is often stranger (and funnier) than fiction …

On January 1st, Kim Jong Un was quoted as saying "…a nuclear button is always on the desk of my office and this is just a reality, not a threat."

Not one to take a jab standing down, Trump responded:

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:

• How to Have a New Year in 2018. (LeadershipFreak)
• The Best Books I Read in 2017. (Vox)
• Artificial Intelligence, AI in 2018 and Beyond. (Towardsdatascience)
• The 8 Types of Company Culture. (HBR)
• Developing Countries Need to Wake up to the Risks of New Technologies. (The Conversation)
• Astronauts Identify Mystery Microbes in Space for the 1St Time.(Space)
• Structural Challenges for Space Architecture. (Structuremag)
• My 3 Words for 2018. (Chrisbrogan)
• Roomba Will Soon Be Able to Build a Map of Your Home's Wi-Fi Coverage. (TheVerge)
• Six Cyber Threats to Really Worry about in 2018. (TechReview)
• To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think about It. (HBR)
• Here are the Best Inspirational Quotes for 2018. (Inc)
• What You Need to Know as a Traveler in 2018. (Wall Street Journal)
• 18 Tech Predictions for 2018. (Inc)
• How to Be Healthier, Happier and More Productive: It's All in the Timing. (Wall Street Journal)
• The Favorite Literary Work of Every Country Visualized on a World Map. (OpenCulture)
• New Technology We're Actually Excited about for 2018. (Gizmodo)
• The Neuroscience of Intelligence: an Interview with Richard Haier.(Quillette)
• Are You Having Trouble Focusing? these Simple Strategies Will Help.(HBR)
• Inside the Home of Instant Pot, the Kitchen Gadget that Spawned a Religion. (New York Times)

Market-Related Links

• Top Hedge Fund Industry Trends for 2018. (AllAboutAlpha)
• A Tool for Making Sense of the Cryptocurrency Markets. (Bloomberg)
• Spotify Files to Go Public through Direct Listing, Cutting out Underwriters. (WSJ)
• A Hedge-Fund Titan Puts Away the Punch Bowl. (Wall Street Journal)
• The Technologies We'll Have Our Eyes on in 2018. (SingularityHub)
• How Fed Interest Rate Changes Will Affect Consumers in 2018. (24/7 Wall St)
• Jim Simons I've Always Been Something of a Risk Taker I Think.(ValueWalk)
• 18 Exponential Changes We Can Expect in the Year Ahead.(TechReview)
• Cryptocurrency's Liquidity Problem. (Microsoft)
• Is Bitcoin a Risk to Wider Financial Markets? (Forbes)
• Is QE Effective? (Please Don't Ask). (EconLog)
• The Year in Charts. (Economist)
• The Software Startup Sectors Raising the Most Capital in 2017.(TomTunguz)
• The Fed's Outlook. (AdvisorPerspectives)
• World Markets Update. (AdvisorPerspectives)
• Welcome to Blockchain. (Medium)
• Bitcoin is an Implausible Currency. (Bloomberg)
• Stocks are the Most Overbought in 22 Years, and History Says That's Bullish. (BigTrends)
• Relative Rotation Graphs Suggest to Stick with Equities While Keeping an Eye on Commodities Going into 2018. (Stockcharts)
• Bitcoin is a Bubble, but the Technology behind It Could Transform the World. (TheGuardian)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard