Friends of Dave #434: 👂deaf rage 😤
Go hunt for some eggs.
Friends,
Taking some time this week to recharge and put the soapbox aside.
If you are looking for things to do and feeling a huge void in your weekend routine without a new FoD preamble, I’ve gone into the vault for you and selected
this one or
this one or
this one from the past as potential replacements.
Feel free to click on any one of those links (or all of them — it costs the same) and get your intro fix.
I spent some extra time to share some good links to read below as well.
If you want, you can also use the time to forward this or a favorite past issue to someone you know and tell them to subscribe to the fun — always good to add new Friends to the group.
And then if none of that is appealing, whether you celebrate Easter or not, maybe see if you can hunt for some eggs….🐣🐰🥚
Back at it next week.
XOXO
Dave
And now a few things to make you smarter…
Global trade is in a precarious situation. The uncertainties can have far-reaching impacts, with trade flows playing a critical role in the GDP of several economies—especially those that are export-oriented. This infographic highlights the export dependency of major economies, measured by the share of goods exports in nominal GDP in 2023. The data comes from U.N. Comtrade and was sourced from a report by J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
"Reunion starts out like those classic thrillers, but ends up in a very different place."
A four-part series styled in the spirit of the 70s era thriller from the producers of Adolescence, Reunion tells the story of a deaf man on a journey of revenge after spending a decade in prison. It aims to get viewers to understand the the frustration and isolation of living in a hearing-centered world.
“We get our bottles from China, and they’re gonna be increased in terms of tariffs,” said Ken Freeman of Freeman Vineyard and Winery in Sonoma County told NPR. “Our costs are gonna go up.”
Wine is more than just about what is in the bottle. It’s also the bottle, the cork, the label, the distributor, and dozens of other moving parts. While, in theory, tariffs could help the U.S. wine industry (i.e. more locally sourced wine), many say that the business is more complicated than that. It’s all interconnected.
Typically, most of us experience rainbows as colorful arcs in the sky, occasionally joined by a second, fainter outer bow and/or any reflections in additional bodies of water. But the true, full shape of a rainbow is actually a full circle. Normally obscured by Earth’s surface, a full rainbow can be seen under the right conditions. Here’s how.
Gilded Age socialite Josephine Cochrane transformed the way we clean dishes.
Ever wonder where the Easter Bunny tradition came from, or what the word Easter even means? Brush up on the origin stories of common Easter traditions in the wake of this year's holiday.
McKinsey, too, guides companies through “skill transformations,” though I’m not sure I would choose to learn “empathy skills” from the company that optimized ICE.
Depending on what you read or to whom you listen, today’s workers are facing a major, game changing crisis: a soft skills crisis. And as a result, in the spirit of Dale Carnegie, there is a whole industry popping up offering training courses and asynchronous “online skills marketplaces” where workers can complete “bite-sized training modules” to fix the damage from COVID and get them ready for AI. Long one that will get you thinking, and fortunately there is a listen option at the beginning.