11/27/2020: Weekly Newsletter
Money
Diminishing returns for Black Friday? In comparison…Alibaba raked in ~$75B on China’s Singles Day
How Shopify is competing with Amazon. (♫ Did you know Shopify started as a company selling snowboards? I highly recommend this How I Built This interview with founder Tobias Lütke.)
Black women in VC forging their own community
How Christine Lagarde has been faring at the ECB
Tech
I guess sunlight really is the best disinfectant…Amazing innovation to sterilize hospital equipment by using the power of sunlight
India bans more Chinese apps. I missed this last year, but India banned WeChat earlier this year.
Baltimore police using air surveillance
I have to admit I didn’t know what the Arecibo Observatory was, but it has recently been damaged due to a fallen cable and will be closed
Dr. Mary Fowkes who helped advance research on the coronavirus by performing autopsies passed away
Etc.
Fútbol legend Diego Maradona passes away, who famously had the controversial ‘hand of God’ goal in the 1986 World Cup. His death inspired lots of rememberances in Argentina. (Obituary in spanish here.)
An L.A. quesadilla stand owner creates community fridges and cookouts to help those in need during COVID
♫ Dax Shephard interviewed by Tim Ferriss
Grammy nominees are out; I really liked this post about the snubs for this year
Currently reading Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski; it is a GREAT read so far (and very timely for this year) about the science of how stress and burnout affect our bodies and women in particular. Emily Nagoski, PhD also wrote the fantastic book Come As You Are which I HIGHLY recommend any woman to read (shout out to my Not So Silent Reading co-host for recommending these reads)