Introducing #ThirstyThursday
But not the kind that involves beers.
This is for those thirsty for more connection, knowledge, depth.
Each Thursday, I'll share my 10 favorite reads of the week, ranging on topics from politics (I promise, not too much of this), to plant based trends, to culture, the planet, relationships etc.
Hope some of you will find this valuable, & would love to have discussions on any of the articles/topics.
The Case for Being a Multi-Hyphenate - Medium
It’s perfectly possible to be good at more than one thing in your life, or to be good at multiple things simultaneously. Ask any truly transcendent athlete or writer or investor or businessperson, and invariably you will hear them rail against hyper-specialization in one breath and, in the next, tell you how being skilled at many things made them great at the one thing for which they’re principally known. Expertise in one domain may help fuel excellence in another.
Why I Think We Can Predict the Future - Gates Notes
One of the other questions Stephen Hawking asked in his last book was, “How do we shape the future?” Investing in global health is one of the best ways we can do that. The future is ours to shape—if we choose to make innovation a priority.
Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying - Harvard Business Review
The climate crisis is upon us, and there’s no time to wait for voluntary corporate action to tackle the challenge. We need the collective will that government provides. Business needs to, in the words of Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp, “unleash the most powerful tool they have to fight climate change: their political influence.”
We Need a More Targeted Approach to Combatting Global Inequality - The Atlantic
The global economic system works very well for some people. It hardly works at all for millions of others. Those for whom it doesn’t work are robbed of the opportunity to lead the life they want, and that is unjust.
Plant-based meat could create a radically different food chain - The Economist
The meat industry attempting to define meat as something that comes from a slaughtered animal is every bit as absurd as trying to say that your phone is not a phone because it doesn’t plug into a wall any more.
Airline Food Waste Is a Problem. Can Banana Leaves Be Part of the Solution? - New York Times
The average airline passenger leaves behind about three pounds of waste each flight. One British design firm has ideas to bring down that number.
The Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career - First Round Capital
Zainab Ghadiyali's extraordinary career has taken her from nonprofit work in Peru to life as Product Lead at Airbnb. With tactical advice on building transferable skills and beating impostor syndrome, she shows entrepreneurs how to embrace the unconventional path and forge a career fueled by curiosity.
If food is medicine, why isn’t it taught at medical schools? - New Food Economy
In a new report published by the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, researchers write that, on average, students in medical schools across the country spend less than 1 percent of lecture time learning about diet, falling short of the National Research Council’s recommendation for baseline nutrition curriculum. Neither the federal government, which provides a significant chunk of funding to medical schools, nor accreditation groups—which validate them—enforce any minimum level of diet instruction.
Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore - The Atlantic
Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.
Let’s Meet Again in 5 Years - New York Times
They thought college was too soon for lifelong love, so they scheduled their next date for a little later — 60 months.
And one bonus read…
Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns - The New Yorker
The last minutes of a football game are different from the rest; if you are far enough behind, you dispense with caution. Since gaining a few yards cannot help you, you resort to more desperate, lower-percentage plays. You heave the ball and you hope, and, every once in a while, you win. So a small group of activists has begun probing the financial industry, looking for chances to toss the kind of Hail Mary pass that could yet win this game.
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
- Wendell Berry
Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone… most of us are not compelled to linger with the knowledge of our aloneness, for it is a knowledge that can paralyze all action in this world. There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed. None of these things can be done alone. But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.
- James Baldwin
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
- Michel Foucault