Friends of Dave #43: The Easy Reader Edition
WARNING: This may be the quickest email you have read all week
Friends, I'm switching it up and going with a lite version of the intro this week. Less pontificating and more educating.
Found a ton of good stories I wanted to share. Hope you have time to scan, click and read. Let me know what you think. Enjoy.
XOXO
Dave
4 To Get You Thinking....
The 10 Commandments of Emotional Intelligence — www.inc.com
These 10 rules will help you make emotions work for you, instead of against you.
The Walkman Was a Machine for Daydreaming — www.lennyletter.com
An ode to a bygone device and a much simpler time.
Is it morally wrong to eat meat? — qz.com
“The pig has a stronger interest than anyone in the demand for bacon.”
Interesting look into how we should be questioning conventional wisdom even if it may lead to uncomfortable conclusions.
People are worrying that the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster. The scary thing: many of these people work at the very companies creating the problem.
5 To Get You Smarter....
How to Market Your Business When Nothing Is Working — medium.com
The answer lies in these 3 keys: market one person at a time, focus on what you’re most enthusiastic about, and show don’t tell.
What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? — hbr.org
Sales force compensation is a tricky issue, requiring decisions based less on intuition and conventional “wisdom,” and more on hard, quantitative data.
Fusing Technology and Human Judgment in Investing — blogs.cfainstitute.org
Alternative data, technology and behavioral finance are all coming together to "quantify the unquantifiable" in human investment behavior.
InsureTech: Chinese AI is handling 12 claims in 6 seconds — www.repairerdrivennews.com
In an effort to improve efficiencies and lower premiums, Alibaba is developing technology that can analyze photos in order to process auto insurance claims faster.
Millennials Living in Shipping Containers (and 4 other interesting demographic trends) — app.hedgeye.com Demography guru Neil Howe cuts through recent news headline noise and shares some observations on topics people are talking about across America.
5 More For Fun....
The History of Toast — www.todayifoundout.com
One quick fact: It’s likely that toast originated as a way to preserve bread rather than as a tasty breakfast item.
The Very Modern Life of an Old-Timey Baseball Organist — www.atlasobscura.com
An extremely in-depth look at what it takes to entertain fans at one of baseball's oldest parks.
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism — aeon.co
‘Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. The story of the board game that taught us all to chase wealth and crush your opponents if you want to come out on top.
Oversize Eyedrops Waste Medicine And Money — www.npr.org
When eyedrops dribble down your face, it's not your fault. Not surprisingly, it's The Man just using ragweed season as an opportunity to steal more cheddar out of your pocket.
Photos of New York in the 1970s Here's what New York City looked like during the 70s, one of the city's most tumultuous decades.