Umbrex member Michael Pani led a successful effort to procure and deliver 31 pallets of supplies (shown above) to the Poland-Ukraine border, including: 20,000 portions of ready meals Baby milk powder for 14,000 bottles 4,000 diapers 1,000 portions of ready food for toddlers 900 gallons of UHT milk 200 sleeping bags 150 pacifiers 100 tourniquets 50 large first aid kits And tooth brushes and tooth paste, liquid soap, sanitary napkins and toilet paper 4 pallets were distributed to 30 foster families…

From where you are reading this right now, could you point towards north? Do you know how many days until the moon is full? From these 20 questions: “Where You At? A Bioregional Quiz.” Via The Art of Noticing. [I was off by 60 degrees and 14 days. Oof.] === 320 questions to ask a company, particularly a startup. Compiled by Mikhail Raevskiy. === Justice system fact of the week: Amount spent to incarcerate someone in a New York City jail: $556,539 per…

How to Write Headlines in Twenty Seconds With This Simple System Banana art Surprise link of the week…

1. Excellent example of a concise, deeply informative industry overview: “Why is the Nuclear Power Stagnant” by Austin Vernon. 2. After I shared a link to VesselFinder last week, Jeff Christiansen pointed me to LeoLab’s low earth orbit space debris tracker. So cool. 3. Great list of free / low cost design resources. 4. Just finished A Gentleman in Moscow, will definitely make my list of best books read in 2022. What should I read next?…

Three things worth reading: Josh Spector: 10 Fill-in-the-Blank Headlines You Can Use to Create Effective Content Dror Poleg argues that individual people are the next big asset class Maxims for Thinking Analytically: The wisdom of legendary Harvard Professor Richard Zechhauser, by Dan Levy…

David A. Fields lays out the ten stages of consulting firm growth. Helpful to know what stage you are at and what’s the next inflection point. Josh Spector shares nine lines that will get people to commit. Concerning news about how global warming is causing mushrooms to evolve to survive in warmer climates, as in: the human body….

1. Liz Specht on coronavirus math. 2. “What Time Do You Wake Up? Write It in the Comments and I Will Tell You Why You Are Bad and Lazy Compared with Me, a 3:15 a.m. Waker-er Upper Who Owns Not One but Two Vitamix Blenders” and more morning routines from The New Yorker Daily Shouts 3.  “Cultivate an environment that will help you. Environments are like cheat codes  If you can surround yourself with builders, you will have a higher chance of becoming…

1. Amazing photos of bookstores in China.  Never seen anything like these in my life. 2. Turns out Cuban infant mortality statistics not as good as reported. 3. Why slate operators matter. 4. My kids showed me this TED talk: What happens when you reply to spam email.   And we all laughed out loud. 5. Saw this film short at the New York International Children’s Film Festival this past week and really loved it: My Grandfather’s Memory Book…

1. Why didn’t the ancient Romans play Dungeons and Dragons?  A thought piece on inventions that are “behind their time.” 2. The 52 most fascinating things Devin Sami learned in 2019 3. Favorite apps of 20 entrepreneurs 4. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows…

1. David Brooks argues that The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake 2. More Americans went to the library than to the movies in 2019 – CBS. I would not have guessed that….

1. Umbrex member Paul Millerd’s piece, The Boomer Blockade: How One Generation Reshaped the Workforce and Left Everyone Behind, was blogged about by Tyler Cowen. That’s like being picked as the Oprah Book-of-the-Month in my universe. Congrats to Paul. 2. How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class, according to Yale Law School Professor Daniel Markovits, in The Atlantic. My post on LinkedIn about this article opened, “Other than a failure to define terms, historical errors, a confusion of correlation and causation, a failure to consider the…

1. McKinsey legend Pete Walker has written a book: Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences Between China and the US 2. Update on the war-torn economy in Syria 3. Chris Brogan predicts skills that will be most valued in the coming years 4. Tyler Cowen’s spring 2020 Industrial Organization reading list and syllabus 5. ‘Ask yourself, “Would I bet $10,000 on being able to fulfill this commitment? If not, why not?”’ Leo Babauta on The Heartbreaking Effects of Being Only Partly Committed to…

1. “Ma computes that between 2014 and 2018, China lost 17 million industrial jobs while adding 46 million service jobs. ” The Money Illusion 2. “I’m going to describe an industry. Then, you’re going to guess which one I’m talking about. You have three choices: commerce, education, or politics.” David Perrell asks What the hell is going on? 3. 10 CRM systems for freelancers. This article doesn’t include Pipedrive, which is the CRM I recommend. 4. Government Schooling and Supermarkets. Cafe Hayek 5. 14 ways…

1. Why video gaming will take over 2. The New American Dream, David Perrell 3. 19 Things To Remember, Holstee. #11: Remember than no one has it figured out. 4. Places to go in 2020, according to Tyler Cowen…