Friends of Dave #74: It's Ketchup Time!
It's Memorial Day Weekend. Time for some ketchup.
Let's not kid ourselves, Friends of Dave: it's the official start of summer and we all have things to do, places to go, and barbecues to fire up.
Not going to take up your time with a long preamble here. What I am going to do, however, is pass along a bunch of especially insightful links from the newsletter that you likely missed over the past few months in addition to the usual current stuff. Look at it as an opportunity to catch up.
Enjoy the long weekend and the chance for some reading catch up....and some ketchup too while you are at it.
XOXO
Dave
Some Good Stuff You May Have Missed:
China is mining data from workers on an industrial scale
Who Is Going To Make Money In AI?
The Un-Ignorable Link Between Employee Experience And Customer Experience
Millennials are more likely than Gen Xers to be perfectionists
A Few to Think About...
Is Your Emotional Intelligence Authentic, or Self-Serving? — hbr.org Don’t use empathy, listening, or self-awareness to manipulate others.
How the mind, under stress, gets better at processing bad news — aeon.co
Being aware of the close relationship between people’s emotional state and how they process information can help us frame our messages more effectively.
Two For Your Day Job...
Hedge funds try to promote sports betting as an asset class — www.economist.com
The combination of the growing abundance of data, particularly alternative data, and favorable legislation makes this an obvious place for professional gamblers, I mean institutional investors, to look for better returns.
Deep learning with synthetic data will democratize the tech industry — techcrunch.com
"Synthetic" data sets have long been a competitive advantage for major tech companies, keeping out of reach from many the advances of machine learning and the processes that allow computers and algorithms to learn faster. Now, this advantage is being disrupted by the ability for anyone to create and leverage synthetic data to train computers across many use cases, including retail, robotics, autonomous vehicles, commerce and much more.
Of Course, Some Random Ones...
A Partial History of Headphones — www.smithsonianmag.com
Sadly, this does not include a partial history of the junk drawer where broken cheap ear buds are kept.
When should you use a pie chart? According to experts, almost never — qz.com
BREAKING: This and the Oxford Comma are two of the most hotly debated topics on Reddit right now....
Inventing the MP3: The one song critical in the format's development — www.theindustryobserver.com.au
HINT: I know it was probably your first guess, but it is NOT Rock & Roll Part 2...
And The Last Word....
Ketchup: The All-American Condiment That Comes From Asia The story of how ketchup became a staple in American kitchens tells us much about the history of international trade, taking us from Fujian province to western Europe and ultimately across the Atlantic.