This week’s highlights: Motherhood, Calendly, Sustainability in Fashion
Issue 413
Happy Friday!
Original Content –
- Entrepreneur vs. World – The Atrophy of Family Wealth – Part 3 – The innate motivation that drives someone to become an entrepreneur is both the greatest asset and liability of a family seeking to persist past three generations in business together
Have a great weekend!
Regards,
David
PS – check out my new book (Amazon)!
Food for Thought
- OutsideMag – My Path to Become Semi-Rad An ode to doing what you love
- NYT – Rhode Island Kept Its Schools Open. This Is What Happened.
- Bloomberg – How Billionaire Robert Smith Avoided Indictment in a Multimillion-Dollar Tax Case
- WSJ – What to Do When There’s a Covid-19 Vaccine Glut Supply is ramping up, but many Americans are reluctant to get the shot and need to be persuaded.
- Vanity Fair – Madeleine L’Engle’s Private Correspondence With Ahmad Rahman When the prolific author of A Wrinkle in Time began exchanging letters with a Black Panther imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit, neither could have imagined what the relationship would yield.
Business
- Wired – The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office A workplace has its own informal cardinal directions: elevatorward, kitchenward, bathroomward. It’s a map we share.
- Benedict Evans – The Great Unbundling – Tech is becoming a regulated industry, but if we step over the slogans, what does that actually mean? Tech is entering its second 50 years.
- NYT – Wall Street’s New Favorite Deal Trend Has Issues Known as SPACs, these shell companies allow businesses to sell shares to the public with different disclosure than usual. What could go wrong?
- InvestLiketheBest – Chamath Palihapitiya – The Major Problems Facing The World – While I still can’t decide what I think about Chamath as an investor, this was a fascinating interview with an incredibly well-thought individual
- Forbes – The Outsider: How CEO-For-Hire Frank Slootman Turned Snowflake Into Software’s Biggest-Ever IPO
Culture / Tech / Science
- Golf – Topgolf is taking over a golf course — here’s why that could work so well
- TheRace – Formula 1 – Writing off 2021 to focus on 2022 is foolhardy With all-new – and very different – Formula 1 regulations for 2022, there’s going to be plenty of talk about whether teams should write off this season to focus on the following year. But it’s really not that simple.
- Horological Society of NY – An In-House Look Producing a Proprietary Watch Movement How does a business adapt when the largest supplier of the most critical component in an automatic watch suddenly decides to stop doing business with you?
- CNN – A software developer built a simpler vaccine sign-up website in her state while on maternity leave
- Twittter – “I’m not a cat.” If you missed it, Zoom filters gone awry make for an unforgettable court appearance for 1 lawyer.
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