This week’s highlights: Sporting Masculinity, Venture Capital, and Bubba
“The more l think about it, the more jazzed l’m getting about these fireworks.”
– Jack Donaghy
Issue 383
by David Wells – Nashville TN
Happy Fourth Everyone!
Summer in TN rounds the halfway point this weekend with the celebration of the Fourth of July and the rapidly approaching start back to school in early August – but who knows if that will even happen.
As well – for the select few who care – Formula 1 finally makes its return on Sunday with the first of 2 weekend races at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. If you want to get up to speed on the action – check out Netflix’s awesome documentary Drive to Survive. Check out the action on Sunday morning early at 8AM central – Live.
Summer in TN rounds the halfway point this weekend with the celebration of the Fourth of July and the rapidly approaching start back to school in early August – but who knows if that will even happen.
As well – for the select few who care – Formula 1 finally makes its return on Sunday with the first of 2 weekend races at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. If you want to get up to speed on the action – check out Netflix’s awesome documentary Drive to Survive. Check out the action on Sunday morning early at 8AM central – Live.
Best,
David
Food for Thought
- Art of Manliness – Boys, Ferocity, Frontiers, and Sports “Those complaints miss fundamental truths about sports, for males in particular. For many boys and young men, classrooms are uncomfortable places. Athletic teams are often a saving compensation”
- McSweeney’s – A Message from Your University’s Vice President for Magical Thinking – Thanks TP Not sure “Covid parties” are the best idea – here’s looking at you University of Alabama. “Our [COVID] strategy is outlined below, but the short answer is this: Our university will proceed as if everything will be okay because we really, really want it to be.”
- GPF – George Friedman on The Gallup Podcast: Will the 2020s Be a ‘Storm’ That Leads to ‘Calm’ in the U.S.? Great podcast interview – How cyclical are U.S. events and history? Pointing to key moments in history, Friedman argues that the country cyclically finds itself in a state of crisis every 80 years — and that these moments are drivers of major change as the U.S. “reinvents itself, in a form both faithful to its founding and radically different from what it had been.”
- WashPo – ‘Hamilton’ wasn’t just timely. It’s timely over and over again If you weren’t a Disney+ subscriber yet, you may be this weekend as acclaimed musical, Hamilton, is released on video today
Business
- MIT TechReview – Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need The funding model that made Silicon Valley a global hub excels at creating a certain kind of innovation—but the pandemic has exposed its broader failures.
- CJ – Home at the Mall Development projects are converting America’s faded retail structures into livable space.
- WCS – How Often Do Long-Term Bonds Beat Stocks?
- NYT – The #Vanlife Business Is Booming Coronavirus is just a distant memory while zipping around in a several-hundred-thousand-
dollar custom van on the open road.
Culture/Tech/Science:
- PNJ – Pensacola’s Bubba Watson has followed the model Detroit’s Dan Gilbert put in place Neat profile of his work in his hometown of Pensacola.
- Autosport – Horner: Red Bull best prepared for 2020 F1 season since last title campaign Go Max!
- NPR – A Year In, 1st Patient To Get Gene Editing For Sickle Cell Disease Is Thriving
- BBC – Coronavirus death rate falling in hospital