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Mind Over Money: Archive

Kevin Cook

Empires and Explorers: Our Destiny in the Stars

Technology ignites commerce and both are driven by our insatiable thirst for wealth, power, knowledge, and new horizons.

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Kevin Cook

Nationalism vs. Globalism: Technology Overrules Politics

While populist movements seem a step backwards, the generations growing up on innovation and fluid borders will inherit one world.

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Kevin Cook

Trade of the 2020's: Sell Gold, Buy Biotech

In 5 years, you be selling your gold and buying more companies leading the century of biology.

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Kevin Cook

Streaming Wars Get Hot for Disney, Netflix, Roku and The Trade Desk

The content explosion is creating massive new opportunity for advertisers and the one platform that connects everything.

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Kevin Cook

Where Does Your Fear Come From?

Neuroscientists are proving the human sense of fear is very different than animals and why it matters.

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Kevin Cook

Probability 101: How Not to Be a Sucker

We need science and math -- and STEM-savvy minds -- more than ever to help us inform decision making.

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Kevin Cook

Boeing 737 MAX and the FAA: A Clash of Culture and Convexity

As we await results of NTSB and grand jury investigations, many questions linger about what went wrong.

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Kevin Cook

How to Trade Unicorns Before They IPO

A growing herd of unicorns and their founders and investors are finding liquidity without rushing to IPO

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Kevin Cook

Facebook Faceplant: First AI Failure, More to Come

The greatest accidental experiment in social media has a lot to teach us about taming the AI beast

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Kevin Cook

The $100 Billion Cult: Video Gaming & Global Youth Culture

I'm not crazy about kids wasting hours playing video games, but there has to be a way to profit from it, for all of us.

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Kevin Cook

Dopamine and the Weather, Part 2

How technology changes human behavior and social rules, but not human nature and genetics???yet.

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Kevin Cook

Dopamine and the Weather, Part 1

How technology changes human behavior and social rules, but not human nature and genetics---yet.

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Kevin Cook

Knowledge, Certainty, and Destiny: How to Keep Up With Science & Technology

Science is bringing the future to you faster every year and this requires a mind wide open.

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Kevin Cook

3 Rules of Wealth for Bull Markets

At the risk of over-simplifying, I crystallize my favorite principles into lessons for all future bull markets.

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Kevin Cook

Your Brain On Risk: 8 Questions to Check Your Investing Biases

Why do the same bad investing decisions keep cropping up for some people?

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Kevin Cook

Apple iPhones Give Me the Feelies

Long before anyone noticed what smartphones did to kids, a wise teacher warned us about the dangers of our devices.

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Kevin Cook

What's The Undoing Project All About?

Resist as he might, Michael Lewis couldn't help but write the story of the partnership that created the most exciting economic power since the invention of money.

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Kevin Cook

How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Your Investing?

AI is not a replacement for stock-picking, but it will become a powerful ally against bad decision-making.

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Kevin Cook

12 Lessons Before You Trade Bitcoin Futures

New risk management for the newest asset class is a welcome innovation, but requires different knowledge and skills than buy-and-hold

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Kevin Cook

Bitcoin or CRISPR: Which is the Bigger Disruptor?

In just 5 years, two new "exponential technologies" have been created that will dramatically change the world

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Kevin Cook

Don't Fight the Gravity of Exponential Change

Technology is reshaping life and business so fast that intelligent adaptation could be the #1 skill of the 21st century.

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Kevin Cook

Bitcoin $20,000 Before Zero

Why the leading cryptocurrency has been strongly validated in the past month and dispels the bubble talk.

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Kevin Cook

Blockchain 101: If Bitcoin's a Fraud, How is Ethereum Different?

Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan just launched a Blockchain platform based on a very different cryptocurrency.

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Kevin Cook

Deep Learning Goes to Wall Street

Fintech innovations are changing investing tools and behavior in powerful ways that you must begin to explore.

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Kevin Cook

AI in Action: DeepStack, DeepMind, and Deep Learning Intuition (Part 2)

The power of AI will take over the world with "invisible robots" making life easier, better, faster.

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