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Favor to ask. My son Noah finished up a project which he’s very passionate about: planning a city park.

It’s entered into a city-wide competition and the project with the most likes will win.

If you’re on Facebook, please “like” the post (Strawberry Park). Thanks!

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What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban bec...

If you’re looking for a really good window into what is happening in the world, why, and where it might lead, I highly recommend “What’s our problem” by Tim Urban

Every page seems to be coming true.

shop.app/p/1001132671...

This is why I’m bullish about @shopify.bsky.social and bullish about working at Shopify.

What a phenomenally exciting time to be alive and space to work in.

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all these people set to roll their clocks forward tonight don’t realize trump is just going to roll them back again monday. smh

I can’t unsee Daft Punk

Open trade, open for business: Getting entrepreneurs the opportunities they deserve We advocate for trade rules that protect and empower every business, especially the underdogs.

Small businesses are the bedrock of the U.S. economy, accounting for nearly 6 in 10 workers, 66% of employment growth and 44% of GDP.

Protectionist policies hit SMBs first and hardest.

Open, free, fair trade is good business and good for business.

www.shopify.com/news/open-do...

If you’re an #FCCincy fan and you’re not subscribed to @laurelpfahler.bsky.social newsletter… you’re so 2000-late.

She has the freshest takes, clear, trusted relationships with the players and clear ethics.

Journalism at its finest and most professional.

What would you say Drake measures to determine if his concert is successful? Many would say "ticket sales"... but those happen before the concert starts.

Defining the right success metric is hard. Here's how to figure out the right metric and target.

Views

I’ve done this exercise everywhere I’ve led and its the single biggest driver of higher employee engagement

https://medium.com/productmc/do-this-one-exercise-to-create-a-highly-performing-team-92dddbff16a7

One of the biggest mistakes I see start-ups make is giving away senior titles early. Gokul puts it way more eloquently here:

https://medium.com/@gokulrajaram/the-one-thing-ceos-should-delay-as-long-as-possible-ea28347714b0

When workers are an employer's No. 1 priority, stockholders benefit too An index of 100 publicly traded companies that focus on workplace issues has outperformed the Russell 1000.

The best employers also generate the best shareholder returns

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/when-employees-are-an-employers-no-1-priority-workers-managers-and-shareholders-all-benefit-450b41aa

Show of hands: have you ever exited a conversation with your team — an ideation session… a retro… etc — and thought ‘man, we don’t have many new ideas’? There’s some tips hidden in the story of how one of the weirdest, but catchiest, songs came to being.

“Smoke & Mirrors”.

The smoked glass + toasted marshmallow were fantastic with the bourbon

I could get down with that. What colour cabinets?

Is Google's Bard chatbot trained on Gmail data? Company responds Google's Bard got off to a wrong start by claiming its dataset originates from Gmail, several questioning its privacy concerns.Google rebutted saying it will make mistakes

Except when it can be used to train AI 😂

Ever wonder why the US has so many more banks than everywhere else? Head over to the bird app and read this great breakdown

https://twitter.com/fintechjunkie/status/1638619026984247296?s=20

1 big thing: Tech is building in the ruins again All my brackets are busted. How is your Monday going? Today's Login is 1,235 words, a 5-minute read.

When times look rough is when major advancements are made

Who will lead us out of this one?

Does it feel like your to-do list only grows? That you’re never able to progress? A President & a 🐸 may hold your cure.

https://medium.com/productmc/learn-prioritization-from-a-president-an-educator-and-a-spy-novelist-a0d7e4cbb0e0

Hi!

Just setting up my blsky