Caleb Gardner

This restaurant is staffed entirely by teens. When their boss was hospitalized, they rallied to save her business Carol Trainor was the bedrock of Wisconsin’s local restaurant Urban Olive & Vine. When she was hospitalized, her employees came together to help save her business.

Maybe the teenagers will be alright??

www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/urb...

Do you use a VPN when you travel, or are you not yet jaded and paranoid?

AEO, GEO, AIO ... if we're going to sacrifice search to the AI gods, let's at least coalesce around one term pls

The problem with making anything creative is that what sounds like a good idea in the rush of Monday morning seems incredibly stupid by Friday afternoon

A screenshot of a quote from Marc Benioff, from his interview with Axios, where he says the main problem with the shift to AI isn't the technology, it's that companies and workers aren't set up for the current pace of technological shift.

Agree with @mbenioff.bsky.social here: the biggest challenge for most companies isn't the technology itself; it's that they're trying to manage 2025 complexity with 1985 org structures—and change management playbooks from a pre-internet era

www.axios.com/2025/07/29/b...

Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, new UN report finds: 'Fossil fuels are running out of road' Two new reports from the United Nations pointed to huge milestones in renewable energy sectors.

Can't under-emphasize the importance of having a media diet that includes what's going right in the world

www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/sol...

Anyone else get really annoyed at themselves if they do something without first putting it on their to-do list?

I hate denying myself the sweet, sweet satisfaction of that ✅

Definitely in my top 10, at least

Quick reminder: Blue Rev by Alvvays is a fantastic album

(and great Monday morning energy)

Netflix Is Running Out of Worlds to Conquer With a market value now exceeding $500 billion, the streaming giant faces pressure to keep growing.

Insanity is an economy based on the need to grow no matter what. This is why the proponents of "degrowth" have an argument

www.wsj.com/business/med...

"Why am I here?" Five easy ways to close the "mattering" gap Organizational leaders and HR teams have spent millions on survey tools, new wellness apps, and flashy perks like ping-pong tables in a bid to keep employees engaged. But employee engagement just hit ...

New from me on LinkedIn: what if the dramatic lows in employee engagement are actually about "mattering" in the workplace—not whether or not someone uses the ping-pong table?

www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-am...

I get that these labels are added to stories for the sake of transparency, but it's a self-serving kind of transparency that allows news orgs to say, "Look, we asked both sides!"

All it does is reinforce ideas of bias, making whatever story being reported come across as less authoritative.

The labels do the reader no good because they signify tribal shorthand instead of educating about policy focus.

Instead of "left-leaning," how hard would it be to say "a think tank that focuses on socioeconomic equality"?

Or instead of "libertarian," a "policy firm focused on free market ideas"?

One bugaboo I have about how the news reports on research firms and think tanks: don't think it's smart to label them with political labels ("left-leaning", "libertarian" etc) that are essentially just social constructions. The shorthand allows the news consumer to immediately dismiss the research.

Celebrating the life of someone I cared about deeply who died too young four years ago today.

The world feels crazy right now. Don't forget to appreciate the people right in front of you.

Hope you stop and smile to yourself today when you remember how absurd this life is

At every turn they're removing all the safeguards -- *all* of them. Disease, cybersecurity, financial and banking protections, housing, disability, inequity, social security, environmental, alliances with other nations, all of this and everything else. A willful and cruel dismantling of government.

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.

Reading this @newyorker.com profile of Bluesky, and discovered @jay.bsky.team grew up Baptist in Oklahoma.

As a fellow Okie ex-pat, am now obligated to be ride-or-die for her forever. #NoMoreCaesars

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Surprising to me how many investors betting on an emergency interest rate cut from the Fed still seem to not understand how the Fed sees its mandate. Jerome Powell isn't going to bail out the economy just for the sake of it.

People are comparing these tariffs to Smoot-Hawley, which collapsed global trade and worsened the Great Depression—which was preceded by the Roaring 20s, the rise of robber barons, and historic income inequality. Soooo ...

Heading into Election Day, 674K people already voted in Wisconsin. That's more than a third of last supreme court race.

So:
1. Dane & Milwaukee counties make up 31.8% of this electorate.

That compares to 28.5% at the equivalent point in November 2024, & 33.4% at equivalent point in April 2023.

After half an hour of calls with Verizon and at least that much internet research, I come with bad news: apparently there's no way to just ... turn off voicemail?

Why is of all things a technology we're stuck with?

oh my goddd im so sorry, just seeing this now 😰 do u guys still need artillery support

This may sound fanciful, but it's actually validated by social scientific research.

One study showed that, when given accurate descriptions of Republican fiscal policies, a significant chunk of voters simply refused to accept that these were their views. It just sounded too extreme.

Think I spend half my day blocking spam and sales calls, and the other half blocking spam and sales emails. About ready to change my identity

Meta PR doing what Meta PR does best: taking a minor crisis and turning it into a major one.

Parents in Tech Want Their Kids to Go Into the Arts Instead Hands-on jobs that demand creativity are seen as less vulnerable to artificial intelligence.

The tech world is pushing AI into everything and telling us it's both the way of the future and inevitable. Meanwhile, in the tech world: