• Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us
  "searching for correlations is a terrible way of dealing with the primary subject of much modern research: those complex networks at the center of life. While correlations help us track the relationship between independent measurements, such as the link between smoking and cancer, they are much less effective at making sense of systems in which the variables cannot be isolated."
• To Know, but Not Understand: Science and Big Data
  "the massive amounts of data necessary to deal with complex phenomena exceed any single brain's ability to grasp, yet networked science rolls on"
• SpeakerFile
  Great Toronto-based startup: "Speakerfile is the better way for keynote speakers & public speakers to find speaking engagements."

• How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend
  Noah Kagan is brilliant, and every startup entrepreneur should read this article.
• Evolutionary Psychology Applied to Marketing & Cosumer Behavior | Evolvify
  “…it really astonished me in reading consumer behavior textbooks, advertising textbooks, and course syllabi from business schools that people were still using Myers-Briggs, they were still talking about Jungian archetypes. They were still using all of this psychology that’s been out of date for at least 30 or 40 years as if it’s still valid and as if we can’t do any better”
• Keynotopia
  If you're comfortable in PowerPoint, you now have the tools to prototype mobile and web apps
• The Start-Up Act: Blueprint for an Innovation Recovery – Brink Lindsey – Business – The Atlantic
  "The proposals contained in the Startup Act represent a kind of 'greatest hits' collection picked from a far broader set of promising reform ideas."
• Consumers Find Ways to Spend Less and Find Happiness
• A Richter Scale for Markets
  Econophysics is the study of markets through the lens of physics, particularly earthquakes.

• How Reframers Unleash Innovation in Their Companies (And Beyond) – Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Prasad Kaipa, Simone Ahuja – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review
  "A select group of smart leaders are reframing their mental models — i.e., radically shifting their perception of the world — to conjure up disruptive business model innovations that could rewrite the rules of the game in your industry."
• The Neuroscience of Leadership
  Interesting article from Strategy+Business magazine
• Phys Ed: The Men Who Stare at Screens – Well Blog – NYTimes.com
  Yikes, too close to home. "The men worked out, then sat in cars and in front of televisions for hours, and their risk of heart disease soared, despite the exercise. Their workouts did not counteract the ill effects of sitting."
• When it comes to research, we live in interesting times
  "Those of us who tell ourselves we are curious about the world are actually swimming in 'evidence' that has been filtered again and again in favour of interestingness."
• The Tenacious Buzz of Malaria
  Innovative mosquitos & their malarial parasites, and our own underestimating have made malaria responsible for 1/2 of human deaths in history

• Why Canada needs a Great Reset
  Richard Florida makes a great case for why and how "Canada should be taking advantage of its enviable economic condition — its stable banks, rising housing prices, great cities, high levels of education and abundant natural resources — to lay the groundwork for an improved economic future."
• The dark side of the new theories of success
  "Maybe we don't have to become magnitudes more frenetic than we already are—just a whole lot more focused…"
• In Praise of Tough Criticism
  I prefer receiving it myself, but not everyone does…"We need to grow thicker critical skin. Why? Because critical behavior that always results in a chorus of affirmation is nothing more than conformity; because allowing views to persist that need to be challenged is nothing less than critical mediocrity; and because failure to tell our colleagues what we truly think about their work is simple dishonesty."
• Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?
  Have "a simple, clear, succinct strategy statement that everyone can internalize and use as a guiding light for making difficult choices."
• Profitable sweet spot
  A sublime use of overlapping circles

A most beautiful illustration of how numbers work in nature. It’s gorgeous in HD.

• STCI hosting $25k Boston startup competition
  A little about what we have been up to lately at Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations (STCI)
• China Doesn’t Need Us Anymore?
  Niall Ferguson says "they see this as a marriage on the rocks and they are actively looking, if not for another partner, then certainly for a divorce from this somewhat unreliable and spendthrift American spouse"
• Have we forgotten how to concentrate?
  A little story on Continuous partial attention, low-information diets and how to increase concentration
• The Levy flight
  How attention in people is similar to animal foraging behavior
• How the city hurts your brain

“If a lion could talk, we would not understand him.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Nassim Taleb on Black Swans, Fragility, and Mistakes
• IBM Picks Entrepreneurs Brains
  "Throughout the year, IBM will be running one-day SmartCamp programs in Paris (Sept. 16), Tel Aviv (June 24), Silicon Valley (Sept. 8), Boston (June 3), Stockholm (May 20) and London (July 21). Five applicants from each location will win a chance to attend the program, which includes face-time with 25 mentors, who are potential investors."
• Reducing debt-To-GDP is requires GDP growth
  Not many countries have done it, and the few that have grew their GDP to do it
• Using collective intelligence to detect the start of a recession?
  Mere references to the word "recession" worked for the last 4 recessions when searching the Washington Post & NYTimes, or Google Trends
• Did the SEC Bait Goldman Sachs?
  Insight from a former white collar criminal on what tactics and treatment Goldman Sachs can expect from SEC "pit bull" Richard E. Simpson.