Recommended reading for anyone who spends time around early-stage businesses. “Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.” ~ learn more
“Chimaobi Enyia, hired to get out the vote in Black communities, is accused of being paid for work he refused to give an accounting of or return the money when confronted by mayoral candidate Paul Vallas.” ~ learn more
“The filmmaker takes a look at the video technology of the late 1960’s, showing alleged fraud was simply not possible.” ~ learn more
“Jimmy Donaldson — aka MrBeast — has established an online multi-platform empire with nearly 200 million followers, planted ~25 million trees, given millions of dollars away, and even helped 1,000 blind people see again. He’s also 24 years old.” ~ learn more
Among other challenges, the classic 2-and-20 fee structure is now “1.35-and-16”. ~ learn more
Brought to you by Harley Finkelstein (President of Shopify) and David Segal (Founder of David’s Tea). Their first interview is with Charles Bronfman who brought baseball to Canada and founded the nonprofit Birthright. ~ learn more
“A recent paper proposes the deployment of volcanic geothermal energy from the Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano, using a completely new copper-based engineering approach.” This qualifies as a big idea. An accordingly some commenters handily dismiss it. ~ learn more
I almost didn’t read this because the title is so outlandish, but I’m glad I did. There’s some delightful research over the years finding benefits from ice cream, disowned by the researchers themselves. There’s a subtext here that I think […]
With the aid of proteins called cryptochromes that work as blue-light-sensitive photoreceptors. It gets more complicated from there. “In a way, it appears that bird’s eyes can “see” magnetic fields, giving a completely new meaning to the phrase “from a […]
“Researchers gave 20 healthy subjects potent, intravenous doses of the psychedelic DMT and observed their brains with both functional MRI and electroencephalography. They witnessed the brain’s business-like hierarchical organization collapse, replaced with a state of global hyperconnectivity. Brain entropy, defined […]