Here is some of what I have been reading since May 4th:

• 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

“Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak”
K’naan Warsame

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

Here is some of what I have been reading since April 19th:

• 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.