How to fall asleep in under one minute using this simple breathing pattern

Check out the 4-7-8 pattern in the Plaid Zebra.

Thanks, Jack from 10Thoughts

Fewer Women Run Big Companies Than Men Named John

That's a stat I never would have guessed. Read more in the NYT.

Thanks, +Alessia Bhargava 

Buffett's Annual Letter to Shareholders

As Tom said: "An institution, worthwhile the read, folksy, funny and with a great ending." An excerpt:

We’ve found that if you advertise an interest in buying collies, a lot of people will call hoping to sell you their cocker spaniels. A line from a country song expresses our feeling about new ventures, turnarounds, or auction-like sales: “When the phone don’t ring, you’ll know it’s me."

Read the full letter. Thanks, Tom

Is the Environment a Moral Cause?

Why left and right respond differently to climate change. Read more in the NYT.

Data Security Is Becoming the Sparkle in Bitcoin

Read more in the NYT.

What happens to your body when you give up sugar?

An excerpt:

The brain becomes tolerant to sugar – which means more is needed to attain the same 'high'. In ways that nicotine and heroin hijack the brain’s reward pathway and make users dependent, increasing neuro-chemical and behavioural evidence suggests sugar is addictive in the same way

Read more in the Independent.

Machine Intelligence

Sam Altman of Y Combinator proposes a new government agency to regulate and monitor companies building ‘Superhuman Machine Intelligence’ technology in “Machine Learning, Part 2”

Thanks, Mattermark