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Brigadoon helps leaders make better connections and helps them better understand the emerging issues shaping commerce and culture.

Brigadoon is a nightmare if you are looking for sameness and similarity as participants are subject matter experts from a cross-section of backgrounds and industries.

Plus, to ensure conversation-driven gatherings, Brigadoon uses no powerpoints, no lanyards, or apps and discourages attribution.

Born out of personal frustration of spending too much time with the same people and the same thinking, Brigadoon is a simple idea to connect others beyond one's daily life who believe in the power of conversation and embrace curiosity.

Brigadoon provides professional premium resources for better insights and organizes newsletters, podcasts, conference calls, salon dinners, workshops, city safaris, excursions, and multi-day experiences that foster better connections.

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Forget to-do lists. You really need a 'got done' list

Most digital productivity tools focus on what you have yet to do, but they never celebrate what you've accomplished.

"Keeping a daily log of what we actually got done, even if it was just a series of unexpected small wins, can soothe our frustration at not having conquered the whole to-do list and boost our motivation for work the next day." -- Teresa Amabile, professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.

Algae protein is expected to become a $1 billion industry by 2026

Several companies see a bright future for plant protein, and for microalgae in particular.

Some see algae eventually overtaking soy and pea as the leading alternative protein source. Demand for plant protein of all stripes is growing as more are interested in reducing meat consumption.

From vegans to flexitarians to Meatless Monday dabblers, many are substituting vegetables for meat. Plus, with Michelin three-star restaurant Eleven Madison Park going meatless and still commanding $335 for a prix-fixe meal, vegetable protein will continue to gain market share and mind space.

Paris will ban through traffic in the city center

Mayor Anne Hidalgo's latest effort to rein in car use and fight pollution would prevent non-residents from driving across the French capital's city center in 2022.

The plan would stop through traffic from a large zone covering Paris' core, cut pollution, reduce noise and free up more space for trees, cycle lanes, and pedestrian areas. Public consultation for the plan launched this week.

Bloomberg reports the car-calmed zone is seen as a new tool to fend off a post-pandemic car comeback within Paris' innermost ring of boulevards.

Elsewhere in Europe, other cities are also seeking to curb traffic. Oslo will start to phase out access for fossil-fueled vehicles in 2022, while London and Milan have employed congestion charges for cars driving into their centers for several years. Within France, the cities of Lille and Nantes already have a low-speed limit and pedestrian-priority zones covering their downtowns.

Look for this trend of car-calmed zones to spread to North America soon, with population-dense cities of the Northeast leading the way.