This week’s highlights: Connoisseurship, Lumber Mania, Billie Eilish
Issue 424
Happy Friday and Mother’s Day!
Original Content of mine this week:
- Poor Behavior (Not Thinking) Limits Success in Family Enterprise If we agree that the family enterprise is a system, why do we so rarely behave as if that is the case?
- Podcast – The Thoughtful Entrepreneur I was interviewed on this podcast recently
Regards,
David
Food for Thought
- FDB – Annoying Connoisseurs Make Things Better for the Rest of Us you may not like coffee guys but you like the coffee, guys
- TheGuardian – ‘I was addicted to the high’: I became an influencer as a joke – then it nearly broke me
- TheAtlantic – The Unspoken Wedge Between Parents and Grandparents Each generation has its own norms for parenting. Arguing over the differences can be an emotional minefield.
- WSJ – Trapped Aboard an Abandoned Cargo Ship: One Sailor’s Four-Year Ordeal The MV Aman was seized near the Suez Canal in 2017. Years later, its chief mate was still on board, all alone.
- Chronicle of Higher Ed – The Crushing Contradictions of the American University Our blind faith in the transformative power of higher ed is slipping. What now?
Business
- II – Why Traditional Bond Managers Should Pay Attention to This Blackstone Deal With the purchase of DCI, the private equity giant is quietly transforming the credit business.
- Vox – Lumber mania is sweeping North America A lumber frenzy has taken over homebuilding, Home Depot, and the internet
- GD – What’s going on here, with this human?
- NYT – Welcome to the YOLO Economy Burned out and flush with savings, some workers are quitting stable jobs in search of postpandemic adventure.
- WSJ – Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing
Culture / Tech / Science
- OHE – What Does “Becoming More Senior” Really Mean? In shaping a career, few questions are as important as how to become more senior.
- Engadget – IBM says it has created the world’s first 2nm chip The company claims 2nm processors can use 75 percent less power than 7nm-based CPUs for the same performance.
- RB – Dave Grohl: “Billie Eilish is the Kurt Cobain of This Generation” – He’s Right
- TheAtlantic – A Year Without Germs Months of exuberant hand-sanitizing and social isolation during the pandemic have changed our exposure to microbes, in ways good and bad.
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