Links

Venture capitalists bring in money at levels not seen since the dot-com boom (LINK)

Ashlee Vance on James Altucher's podcast (LINK)

Related book: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Derek Sivers on James Altucher's podcast (LINK)

Related book: Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

Edge #464: The Augmented Human Being - A Conversation with George Church (LINK)

Related book: Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves 

Hobbits died out earlier than thought (LINK)

Book of the day: The Disruption Dilemma

Quote of the day, from Walter Isaacson in his book The Innovators (when discussing ARPANET and email): "One truth about the digital age is that the desire to communicate, connect, collaborate, and form community tends to create killer apps."