- Listen: Concordance Over Truth, aka, there is no such thing as “free speech” on social media.
- Listen to this fascinating discussion of work, community and meaning.
- Listen: Why DEI failed and how to better help minorities.
- Listen to Robert Putnam on how to bring back community.
- Amsterdam is taking over its failing drinking water company (Waternet). What will happen next [Dutch]?
- Listen to What It Takes to Make a Great Company. Key point: The CEO of TSMC uses performance reviews (=grades) to help employees improve. When it comes to FIRING employees, he does not use PRs. Instead, he would focus on what part of the company needs to shrink. (But, he’s never fired anyone!)
- US schools are bringing shop class back, as students realize there’s money to be made.
- Wow. What a crazy story of a mad? Spaniard in the New World. Listen.
- Trump likes ripping people off, so he loves “shit coins” — Americans should be prepared to get ripped off. Watch. Related: Listen to a good discussion of how European financial markets are booming as Trump flails, how Europe is finding its own path as Trump rips up 80 years of cooperation, and — finally — how Trump is undermining trust, to bring America’s government down to his level.
- James Hoffman innovates coffee off the rails. Watch the fabulous.
H/T to CD