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Whether to sit or stand while working has become a hot-list health topic the last few years. The argument takes many forms, including the popular trope that “sitting is the new smoking.”

Without going that far, however, there’s still reasonable ground to cover in this discussion, and a new study adds a finding with solid science on its side: standing may very well make you a better thinker.

Two groups of participants were asked to complete a psychological test known as the Stroop test while either sitting or standing.

AOL will be shutting down AIM, its instant messenger service, on December 15. This iconic product was highly popular during its heyday.

According to the WSJ, AIM grew from 13 million users in 1997 to over 65 million users in 2000. While some of us will lament the the closure of AIM, these feelings are more nostalgia than anything else.

The truth is that many of us stopped using the platform long ago and we have migrated to other platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

This is a common question posed to financial planners and advisers: “Should I save more for retirement or pay off debt first?”

There is no shortage of business books on the market (including mine), most of which claim to hold the secrets to success.

As a business book writer myself, I’m not inclined to disparage any of these. Most offer useful tactics that entrepreneurs can use to streamline their processes and boost their performance.

Few, however, speak to the immutable truth about what separates top performers from the rest. I’m talking about the people who can do more, push harder, and endure more than what we commonly believe to be possible.

How should investors think about cryptocurrency as part of a broader diversified portfolio? I spent most of the past four years working for the University of Chicago endowment where we had to consider into which "bucket" investments would fall. 

Is cryptocurrency best thought of as venture capital? Absolute return? 

A potential inflation hedge like gold or real estate?

An average investor may not be bound by the buckets above, but should still carefully consider the role cryptocurrency plays in the context of a complete portfolio.