Bose is closing all of its retail stores in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia – The Verge:
“Bose plans to close its entire retail store footprint in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. The company announced the decision earlier today and pointed to the fact that its headphones, speakers, and other products ‘are increasingly purchased through e-commerce’ as the reasoning. Hundreds of employees will be laid off as a result. “
Finding Time to Invest in Yourself:
“Naval: Judgment takes experience. It takes a lot of time to build up. You have to put yourself in positions where you can exercise judgment. That’ll come from taking on accountability.
Leverage is something that society gives you after you’ve demonstrated judgment. You can get it faster by learning high-leverage skills like coding or working with the media. These are permissionless leverage. This is why I encourage people to learn to code or produce media, even if it’s just nights and weekends. “
*Interesting throughout
UZH – World Premiere in Zurich: Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body:
“Until now, livers could be stored safely outside the body for only a few hours. With the novel perfusion technology, livers – and even injured livers – can now be kept alive outside of the body for an entire week. This is a major breakthrough in transplantation medicine, which may increase the number of available organs for transplantation and save many lives of patients suffering from severe liver disease or a variety of cancers”
*Gamechanger?
Tesla Surges Above $500, Leaving Analyst Targets in the Dust – Bloomberg:
“Tesla Inc. shares rose above $500 for the first time on Monday as Wall Street analysts played catch-up with the electric-vehicle maker’s share price, which has doubled from October.”
Education and Men without Work | National Affairs:
“According to the latest monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘work rates’ for American men in October 2019 stood very close to their 1939 levels, as reported in the 1940 U.S. Census. Despite some improvement since the end of the Great Recession, Great Depression-style work rates are still characteristic today for the American male, both for those of ‘prime working age’ (defined as ages 25 to 54) and for the broader 20 to 64 group.”
*Interesting and worthwhile read.
Opinion | The Gig Economy Is Coming for Your Job – The New York Times:
“… he was an expert in delivering carefully assembled trays of food and drink to hungry guests. But the number of orders had sharply decreased. What was once 50 glasses of orange juice every morning had dwindled to 10, and Mr. Martín’s tip income fell accordingly. At lunchtime, he seemed to make more deliveries of plates and silverware than actual food.”
How a High Schooler Scooped Everyone on the Iowa Poll:
“How does Mr. Rawal do it? He correctly figures out the URL — the uniform resource locator, or full web address — that a graphic depicting the poll’s results appears at before their official release.
‘URL manipulation is what I do,’ he said, ‘and I’ve been able to get really good at it because, with websites like CNN and Fox, all the file names follow a pattern.’”
*This is going to become harder if the people in charge want to keep information secret until they reveal it themselves.
Opinion | Who Killed the Knapp Family? – The New York Times:
“‘The meaningfulness of the working-class life seems to have evaporated,’ Angus Deaton, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, told us. ‘The economy just seems to have stopped delivering for these people.’ Deaton and the economist Anne Case, who is also his wife, coined the term ‘deaths of despair’ to describe the surge of mortality from alcohol, drugs and suicide.”
*Read this article. I’ve placed a hold on the book at my local public library.
So, when you read good email newsletters and want to share links, thoughts and ideas that were started in or sparked by the newsletter how to you establish credit to the author and give them a proper link to?
Perhaps every newsletter should have a number system? Or maybe an issue and date sections that is created for you to include in any posts you create and want to credit them back properly. Should email newsletters be posted to the web? If yes, then link there. Or maybe the author will have a link history that you can get access to by subscribing to their newsletter. Or maybe you get to see the issue and you are asked to subscribe if you like what you are reading.
Bob Lefsetz has a really interesting email newsletter. Think he’s been publishing his Letters since the mid 1980’s when they where on paper and distributed via mail. That I can not confirm. Was just reading a post by Bob that inspired me to write this post because I’d love to write about some things he shared and to properly credit him back.
January 6, 2020
9:32:08 PM EST
For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity – StarTribune.com:
“Tractors built in 1980 or earlier cause bidding wars at auctions. “
D.L. Damore 