2024-05

I have no tagline suggestions because all I have is problematic jokes about British people. Because I lived there, I feel like that gives me a license to be kind of mean. I'm guessing some British listeners will disagree. It's very funny. It's like whenever anybody asks me about some country I haven't spent much time in, like Thailand, I'm like, oh, a beautiful country with noble people. But if they ask me about Britain or Denmark, I'm like, first of all... I have this long rant ready. That's true. I did ask you if I should go to Denmark for a work trip and you were like, absolutely not.

Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?

The real estate industry on trial

Duolingo: Free Speech

Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn

Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Update) ~LLM summarizations below~

Roughly 50% of American employees have left a job due to a bad boss (Gallup poll).
Only 13% of European employees rate their current boss as bad (European survey).
Moving from an average to a high-quality boss can increase productivity by up to 50% (Lazier, Shaw, Stanton research).
Managers with high people management skills have a 60% lower employee attrition rate (Tedellis and Hoffman research).
Doubling worker sales leads to a 30% higher chance of promotion (Hsu, Benson, Lee research).
Managers with high pre-promotion sales performance have a 6% decline in subordinate sales (Hsu, Benson, Lee research).

Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)

The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’