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Top Highlight Why We Focus on Trivial Things fs.blog The Law of Triviality states that the amount of time spent discussing an issue in an organization is inversely correlated to its actual importance in the scheme of things. Major, complex issues get the least discussion while simple, minor ones get the most discussion. Save Most Popular Friday May 1, 2020 'It's bull****': Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping wired.co.uk C anggu is a place where people go to feel rich. The clicking of keyboards in the Balinese town's co-working spaces is drowned out only by the roar of mopeds. Over smoothie bowls and lattes, western immigrants – expats, as they prefer to be known – talk about themselves, loudly. Save Thursday Apr 30, 2020 What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine gatesnotes.com One of the questions I get asked the most these days is when the world will be able to go back to the way things were in December before the coronavirus pandemic. My answer is always the same: when we have an almost perfect drug to treat COVID-19, or when Save Wednesday Apr 29, 2020 The Stories Dan Crenshaw Tells Himself - The Bulwark thebulwark.com In a new book out this month, a Republican member of Congress offers one of the most brutal and surgical eviscerations of President Trump's leadership style that has been put to print. "The problem with today's society is that it is swelling with the wrong role models," he writes. "Abandoning Save Tuesday Apr 28, 2020 The Anti-Amazon Alliance stratechery.com Manage your Stratechery subscription. The nonsensical tie-in has long been one of my favorite PR genres, and the coronavirus crisis has created a whole host of examples; Casey Newton posted a particularly egregious one: Someone pitched me a story on the 55th anniversary of the BASIC computer language and this Save Monday Apr 27, 2020 The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever theatlantic.com Joshua Dudley Greer Last weekend, I walked a mile along M Street in Washington, D.C., where I live, from the edge of Georgetown to Connecticut Avenue. The roads and sidewalks were pin-drop silent. Movie theaters, salons, fitness centers, and restaurants serving Ethiopian, Japanese, and Indian food were rendered, in eerie Save Sunday Apr 26, 2020 Seattle's Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York's Did Not newyorker.com The first diagnosis of the coronavirus in the United States occurred in mid-January, in a Seattle suburb not far from the hospital where Dr. Francis Riedo, an infectious-disease specialist, works. When he heard the patient's details—a thirty-five-year-old man had walked into an urgent-care clinic with a cough and a slight Save Saturday Apr 25, 2020 Nervous Republicans See Trump Sinking, and Taking Senate With Him nytimes.com The election is still six months away, but a rash of ominous new polls and the president's erratic briefings have the G.O.P. worried about a Democratic takeover. Many Republicans believe President Trump's daily news briefings are inflicting grave damage on his political standing. Credit... Al Drago for The New York Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2020 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609