The weekend is here! Pour yourself a Danish blend, sit in the sun and get ready for our long weekend:

• how people think The 17 Most Common and Influential Aspects of How People Think Many behaviors are common across time and place. Things will change, but people’s reactions won’t. Technology is constantly evolving, but insecurities, blind spots, and credulity rarely occur. (Cooperation Fund)

• A latecomer’s guide to encryption As it has gone mainstream, cryptocurrencies have sparked an unusually polarizing discussion. Its biggest fans think it’s saving the world, while its biggest skeptics think it’s all a hoax — an environment-destroying speculative bubble orchestrated by crooks and sold to greedy crooks that, when it bursts, could make Economic collapse. (New York Times)

• The Art of Money: Turning Financial Success into a Creative Pursuit How do you feel about the act of “making money”? Is it an act of accounting and measurement? Or is it an act of imagining and thinking? Our finances involve numbers and data, but they are closely related to our personal thoughts, experiences, feelings, and behaviors—intangible things you can’t express in a spreadsheet. So, to manage the human nature of money, it is better to think like an artist rather than a scientist. (root of all)

• Why can’t the West admit that Ukraine has won? America has become too accustomed to seeing its side blocked, ineffective or incompetent. (atlantic organization)

• Silicon Valley’s Favorite Weird Philosophy Is Fundamentally Wrong: The mistake of transhumanists is that genes play a disproportionate role in creating the traits they like. Compared to explicit physical traits such as eye color, the relationship between genetic “information” and traits like intelligence and kindness is subtle and indirect. Today, developmental systems theory replaces the predominant, one-way causal relationships that previously existed in genes. (slate)

• Why do we die if we don’t sleep? As host Steven Strogatz discovered in a conversation with researchers Dragana Rogulja and Alex Keene, the reasons why sleep is so important is often hidden in unexpected parts of the body. (Quanta Magazine)

• Here’s How Algorithms Can Guide Medical Decisions AI tools are complex computer programs that can ingest large amounts of data, search for patterns or trajectories, and make predictions or recommendations to help guide decision-making. Sometimes, the way algorithms process all the information they receive is a black box — difficult for even the people who designed the program to understand. But even if the program isn’t a black box, the math can be so complex that it’s hard for anyone who isn’t a data scientist to understand exactly what’s going on in it. (edge)

• In a world on fire, stop burning things: The truth is new and counterintuitive: We have the technology needed to quickly ditch fossil fuels. (New Yorker)

• Love and Missing in the Seaweed Album: Across the coast of the 19th century, seaweed collectors would wander for hours, stuffing specimens into bags and jars, then pasting their findings into ingenious photo albums. Sasha Archibald explores eroticism contained in print and illustrated pages of renowned algorithmists, including Charles F. Durant’s “Most Ambitious Album” (public domain review)

• Demand for this toad psychedelic venom is booming.Someone warns it’s bad for toadsSonoran desert toads are at risk of population collapse, scientists say, suggesting a psychedelic resurgence could have unintended consequences. (New York Times)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview This weekend, Samara Cohen, chief investment officer of ETF and index investing at BlackRock. BlackRock manages more than $10 trillion in assets, of which Cohn’s index/ETF group is responsible for $6 trillion.

geopolitical events.The script works (almost) perfectly

Source: Jim Reid, Deutsche Bank

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