Imitation is the highest form of flattery (except when it's an internet troll spoofing your account to dupe people out of money).

Be safe out there!

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 Ensure Your Future is Greater Than Your Past. (Medium)
• There are Only Three Ways to Get More Done. (LeadershipFreak)
• The World's 50 Greatest Leaders. (Fortune)
• The Demise of the Nation State (3QuarksDaily)
• Cambridge Analytica is Shutting down after Facebook Data Controversy. (NPR)
• Vatican Secret Archives Deciphered with Artificial Intelligence.(ScienceMag)
• Why Your Biology Runs on Feelings. (Nautilus)
• An American in Japan, Investigating the 'Tokyo Vice'. (NPR)
• Another Side of Feynman. (Nautilus)
• The Excessive Vision of Donatella Versace. (GQ)
• Why Trump is Winning and the Press is Losing. (NYBooks)
• Palantir Knows Everything about You. (Bloomberg)
• Russia Accidentally Sabotages Its Internet. (TheDailyBeast)
• The Killers of Kiev: How Putin Created an Assassin's Metropolis. (GQ)
• Nike's Vaporfly Elite FlyPrint Leans Hard into Computational Design.(TechCrunch)
• Technical Experts Need to Get Better at Telling Stories. (HBR)
• Symantec: Establish Security Procedures for the 'Inevitable' Smart Office. (ZDNet)
• Moderate' Drinking Guidelines are Too Loose, Study Says.(Washington Post)
• Night Owls May Have Higher Risk of Earlier Death. (PsychCentral)
• Biotech CEO, Who Injected Himself with Untested Vaccines, Found Dead in Sensory Deprivation Tank, Reports Say. (FoxNews)

Market-Related Links

• McKinsey's Latest AI Research Predicts It Could Create Trillions Worth of Value … Someday. (Re/code)
• Overflowing with Cash, the World's Largest-Money Market Fund is Trying a New Tactic. (Wall Street Journal)
• Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin on the Bitcoin Bubble and Running a $125Bn Blockchain. (Medium)
• Is Ethereum a Security? the Answer Could Upend the Crypto World.(Quartz)
• An Investor's Guide to Robo-advisors 2018. (Moneysense)
• Dell's Once-Secret Venture Capital Arm Grows after Unicorn IPOs. (Bloomberg)
• Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Just Bought Another 75 Million Apple Shares, Report Says. (Fortune)
• The President of the World Bank Used "One of the Best Ploys to Get a Job" Obama Had Ever Seen. (QZ)
• The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code. (Bloomberg)
• Inside the World's Most Elite (And Secret) Traders' Club. (Bloomberg)
• 5 Big Revelations from Apple's Surprising Q2 Earnings Call. (Cult of Mac)
• The Quest for the next Billion-Dollar Color. (Bloomberg)
• The Top 12 Cryptocurrencies and What They Are and Aren't Good For.(TechReview)
• Pimco's New Bond King Could Be a Robot in Austin. (Wall Street Journal)
• On Radical Markets. (Vitalik)
• Richard Thaler: Misbehaving: the Making of Behavioral Economics. (Ritholtz)
• How Elon Musk's Plan to Colonize Mars Helps Planet Earth. (Observer)
• U.S. Fund Flows: is Another Round of Sell Everything Coming?(SeeItMarket)
• 'Just around the Bend': this is When the Stock Market Will Crash, According to 5 Famous Investors. (Time)
• 1,100 Economists Warn that Trump is Repeating One of the Biggest Mistakes of the Great Depression. (BusinessInsider)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard