It’s a stack of stuff. Despite the weekly bonus episodes in which Ron and Ed go through their stack, things can build up over time. What better way to talk through the Twitter ownership change and how morticians are putting the fun in funerals?
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Segment one:
Today’s episode is a stack of stuff! We started with Elon because….of course we did.
As a part of the Twitter ownership shift, there have been some who claim to be leaving Twitter. Of course, if you left Twitter then you won’t see this tweet about us not leaving Twitter.
Why is Musk so intent on having people in the office at Twitter? He’s a big fan of MBWA (management by walking around).
Speaking of Tesla (well, sort of), check out this breakdown of US electric vehicle sales through Q3 2022 https://electrek.co/2022/10/18/us-electric-vehicle-sales-by-maker-and-ev-model-through-q3-2022/
According to legend, Jonah Goldberg’s (@JonahDispatch) mom was fired from the Johnson White House’s press office when she joked with the wrong person. He tells the story here: https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/thats-no-icon-thats-my-mom/
Segment two:
Headline of the year? “A blood test that screens for multiple cancers at once promises to boost early detection” https://theconversation.com/a-blood-test-that-screens-for-multiple-cancers-at-once-promises-to-boost-early-detection-191728
From Harvard Business Review: “Monitoring Individual Employees Isn’t the Way to Boost Productivity” https://hbr.org/2022/10/monitoring-individual-employees-isnt-the-way-to-boost-productivity
How does one inside of an organization “successfully crash” an initiative when you know it needs to end? Ed and Ron would very much like your thoughts.
Segment three:
Ed shared a great article from the WSJ today. It’s called, “How Morticians are Putting the Fun in Funerals” and it very much feels like the start of a subscription funeral. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-funeral-industry-plots-a-rebrand-were-fun-11667486178
1/2 We did a show called “Generational Astrology”. It’s episode number 142 and is linked here: https://www.thesoulofenterprise.com/142
2/2 As a follow up to that show, Ron has been thinking a lot about Ronald Reagan’s book, “The Creative Society”. It is a series of speeches Reagan gave starting in the late 50s until the time he was elected Governor of California.
“Some people describe the early days of my administration as a honeymoon. If it was a honeymoon, I was sleeping alone.” —President Ronald Reagan
Permacrisis: The Collins Dictionary word of the year (with a full list of the others at the link) https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/woty
Segment four:
Are hurricanes in the Atlantic becoming more common or is science getting better at detecting them? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bjornlomborg/2022/10/04/facts-on-hurricanes-and-climate-are-blowing-in-the-wind/
From one of our favorite data sources, ChartR.co, “The NY Times has gone all in on digital subscriptions” https://read.chartr.co/newsletters/2022/11/4/layoffs-20-again
What are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth known as? The bill of rights! Here’s a FEE article called “The Deadly Sins of Politics” https://fee.org/articles/the-deadly-sins-of-politics/
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