Record numbers of teens are eating tide pods … for likes and retweets.

It's such an "epidemic" that Rob Gronkowski partnered with Tide to release a PSA.

Baffling. 

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:

• Amazon Go: Amazon's New No-Money, No-Line, Brick and Mortar Store (It's Scaring Everyone Else in Retail). (Inc)
• Apollo Astronauts Often Fell behind Schedule on the Moon.(TheVerge)
• This Tiny Robot Moves So Fast It's Just a Blur on Camera. (TheVerge)
• The Firm of the Future. (Bain)
• The Secret to Henry Kissinger's Success. (Politico)
• They are Watching You and Everything Else on the Planet. (NatGeo)
• A Mind Made out of Silk. (Quanta)
• CES 2018: Real Advances, Real Progress, Real Questions. (Medium)
• Watch Tony Robbins Bring Someone to Tears in a One-on-one Motivational Session. (BusinessInsider)
• Tech Tools for Keeping New Years' Resolutions. (Unclutterer)
• Three Reasons Your Presentation is Literally Putting People to Sleep.(FastCompany)
• Photo Format from Google and Mozilla Could Leave JPEG in the Dust.(CNet)
• Ten Questions Recruiters Shouldn't Ask – and You Shouldn't Answer.(Forbes)
• Plato Would Have Wanted You to Unplug. (Eidolon)
• Mastering the Learning Pyramid. (Edgeperspectives)
• Finding the Platform in Your Product. (HBR)
• The Best Reads on Platforms from 2017. (Stories)
• Editorial Cartooning, Then and Now. (Medium)
• Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious. (Quanta)
• I Replaced the Word Millennials' with 43-Year-Old White Men' and Now these Headlines are *Italian Chef Kissing Fingers Gesture*.(Medium)

Market-Related Links

• 2018: the Year Blockchain, AI and IoT Converge. (CoinDesk)
• Blockchain in Action. (OZY)
• The Cryptocurrency Mania is Sure to End in Tears. (Barrons)
• Bitcoin: the Big Short is Already Here and It Could Get Far Worse.(SeekingAlpha)
• Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future. (New York Times)
• Rolling Back Regulations Often Comes before a Financial Meltdown, According to 300 Years of History. (Quartz)
• Diary of an IPO. (Redfin)
• Amazon Effect Steamrolling the Restaurant Industry. (FoxBusiness)
• This Company is Increasingly Looking like the Berkshire Hathaway of Technology. (SeekingAlpha)
• This Billion-Dollar Amazon Business is Growing Faster Than Amazon Web Services. (Fool)
• Trump Has Given North Korea the Greatest Gift Ever. (Vox)
• Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care. (New York Times)
• New Tax Code Has Long Route Ahead before It Can Be Implemented. (NPR)
• Stocks Soar, Mergers Slump, Activist Investors Wield Power. (WSJ)
• Why Google and Amazon Keep Fidelity and BlackRock up at Night.(Bloomberg)
• Six Health Stories to Watch in 2018. (Wall Street Journal)
• Robots are Making Your Sushi, and That's Good for the Economy. (Bloomberg)
• Never Mind Bitcoin. China Loves AI Stocks. (Bloomberg)
• Coinbase Wants Wall Street to Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues.(Bloomberg)
• A Wall Street Consultancy Eviscerated Crypto in a Massive Report and It Should Strike Fear into the Heart of Every Bitcoin Bull.(BusinessInsider)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard