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Good Leadership Is About Communicating “Why”

Harvard Business Review:

When someone asks you to alter a current behavior, your first question is usually why? Because you’re not going to try something new or hard unless you’re motivated to do so.

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The Only Knife Skills Guide You Need

Joshua Weissman op YouTube, om me te tonen dat ik na meer dan vijftien jaar koken en nog langer kookprogramma’s kijkend, nog niet eens een mes tegoei kon vasthouden… 🤯

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What Happens Next? COVID-19 Futures, Explained With Playable Simulations

Geniaal, verhelderend en bovenal begrijpbaar:

Even under a pessimistic scenario, it is possible to beat COVID-19, while protecting our mental and financial health.Use the lockdown as a “reset button”, keep R < 1 with case isolation + privacy-protecting contract tracing + at least cloth masks for all… and life can get back to a normal-ish!

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68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice

Kevin Kelly, die van Wired, maakte een crème van een lijstje:

It’s my birthday. I’m 68. I feel like pulling up a rocking chair and dispensing advice to the young ‘uns. Here are 68 pithy bits of unsolicited advice which I offer as my birthday present to all of you

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I Am a Mad Scientist

Kate Marvel, klimaatwetenschapper bij NASA:

There is an entrenched system that extracts CO2 from the ground and pumps it into the atmosphere, one that results not from inherent human badness but from the choices of a few humans with power. Confronting that system will take work. We need to build things: wind turbines, solar panels, public transportation, denser cities, fairer societies. We don’t need purification. We don’t need absolution. We need to get to work.

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Praat – 006 – Ned Howey – “I think all of us have it within us to make really big change.”

In the sixth episode of Praat – which is Dutch for “Talk” – I have a conversation in English with Ned Howey, CEO of Tectonica. Their studio builds online tools for succesful campaigns, political and societal. At this time he is locked down in Barcelona due to Covid-19. We talk about the influence of a traumatic personal experience on his look on life and how this Coronavirus will influence politics and campaigning in the coming years.

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Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting

Julio Vincent Gambuto:

This is our chance to define a new version of normal, a rare and truly sacred (yes, sacred) opportunity to get rid of the bullshit and to only bring back what works for us, what makes our lives richer, what makes our kids happier, what makes us truly proud. We get to Marie Kondo the shit out of it all. We care deeply about one another. That is clear. That can be seen in every supportive Facebook post, in every meal dropped off for a neighbor, in every Zoom birthday party. We are a good people. And as a good people, we want to define — on our own terms — what this country looks like in five, 10, 50 years. This is our chance to do that, the biggest one we have ever gotten. And the best one we’ll ever get.

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The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever

The Atlantic:

In the short term, our cities will become more boring. In the long term, they might just become interesting again.

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It’s Time To Build

Marc Andreessen, in een ondertussen wijdverspreid opiniestuk:

The left starts out with a stronger bias toward the public sector in many of these areas. To which I say, prove the superior model! Demonstrate that the public sector can build better hospitals, better schools, better transportation, better cities, better housing. Stop trying to protect the old, the entrenched, the irrelevant; commit the public sector fully to the future. Milton Friedman once said the great public sector mistake is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. Instead of taking that as an insult, take it as a challenge — build new things and show the results!

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‘The impossible has already happened’: what coronavirus can teach us about hope

Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian:

Hope offers us clarity that, amid the uncertainty ahead, there will be conflicts worth joining and the possibility of winning some of them. And one of the things most dangerous to this hope is the lapse into believing that everything was fine before disaster struck, and that all we need to do is return to things as they were. Ordinary life before the pandemic was already a catastrophe of desperation and exclusion for too many human beings, an environmental and climate catastrophe, an obscenity of inequality. It is too soon to know what will emerge from this emergency, but not too soon to start looking for chances to help decide it. It is, I believe, what many of us are preparing to do.

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