I have often wished I could cram for exams (when in school) and important meetings by taking a very long nap. Unfortunately, that strategy never worked. But, it turns out that you can learn while you sleep!

A new study has found that the sleeping brain can learn new information during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, the point in your sleep cycle when you typically dream. The study focused on memories for acoustic patterns (which leaves hope that anyone can learn to play a musical instrument just by sleeping).

Now, we hope you enjoy another great set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdspring Twitter account (and on Ross’s Twitter account). We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design, web design, startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Enjoy!

7 Successful Strategies When Starting or Growing a Business in a Crowded Market | @crowdspring Blog – https://t.co/NiYs1S3GmZ pic.twitter.com/hud3Uo2oAl

— crowdspring (@crowdSPRING) October 23, 2017

Useful insights … Diligence at Social Capital Part 1: Accounting for User Growth – https://t.co/sTUlMbxjjc

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 23, 2017

Critically important for entrepreneurs to grok this … We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made – https://t.co/upQND4HX4t pic.twitter.com/KpfrFCo09Q

— crowdspring (@crowdSPRING) October 21, 2017

The data is compelling … What Science Says About Identifying High-Potential Employees https://t.co/IEufvokLfy pic.twitter.com/ilJEn8m7Sm

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 20, 2017

Useful insights … Diligence at Social Capital Part 1: Accounting for User Growth – https://t.co/sTUlMbxjjc

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 23, 2017

Insightful conversation between @profgalloway & @cshirky about China’s digital and economic momentum – https://t.co/9JrDpza8ok pic.twitter.com/cido5umeQp

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 23, 2017

Mark Ritson: Media buying's deadly sins – and why agencies are too late to save their souls – Marketing Week https://t.co/6YHIXALjFR

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 24, 2017

Interesting look at personalization of content … The Trend of One: Can We Ever Do Personalization? https://t.co/MwY2oNXavS pic.twitter.com/vnrYON2EBs

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 23, 2017

The Small Business Guide to Creating a Perfect Logo | @crowdspring Blog https://t.co/7Rn0KECXo5 #SmallBusiness #branding pic.twitter.com/5yvCcil9qN

— crowdspring (@crowdSPRING) October 26, 2017

Terrific from Burger King (sad statement about our culture). https://t.co/TgpXgAT57x

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 21, 2017

AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch | DeepMind https://t.co/7oUi2JHiFk

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 22, 2017

Interesting read & data … Is organic really better for the environment than conventional agriculture? https://t.co/GHNVUvtI76 pic.twitter.com/TEboldgdtl

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 22, 2017

Interesting … Imagining the Future Is Just Another Form of Memory https://t.co/yIyPbNNsm4 pic.twitter.com/nIsEOenA3t

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 23, 2017

I wish I could learn Chinese and Italian while I sleep … The Sleeping Brain Can Learn https://t.co/66xRedwoDu pic.twitter.com/wBJOQSjUqp

— Ross Kimbarovsky (@rosskimbarovsky) October 27, 2017

What every software engineer should know about search https://t.co/hMSqkFXqsx

— crowdspring (@crowdSPRING) October 22, 2017