Splinter - Scott Hutchison & James Graham & James Graham
Abre Las Manos - Devendra Banhart
Superlove - Lenny Kravitz
Don't Swallow the Cap - The National
Generator - Mondo Cozmo
Wheat Kings - The Tragically Hip
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Hello Time Bomb - Matthew Good Band
How Long (feat. Panama) Bag Raiders
It All Feels the Same - Dreams We've Had
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Matt Chorley, Falcon Racing, COP26, Pappy Van Winkle, Lenny Kravitz | Brigadoon Weekend
Brigadoon Weekend
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SOctober 2, 2021
Get to Know:
Matt Chorley
Matt Chorley is a writer and broadcaster for The Times.
He presents the mid-morning political show on Times Radio Monday to Thursday 10 am-1 pm, hosts the award-winning Red Box podcast, and writes a column on Saturdays, bursting the Westminster bubble with his pin-sharp wit.
His early career was at the Taunton Times before covering politics for the Western Morning News and the Press Association. He was subsequently political editor at MailOnline and a political correspondent for the Independent on Sunday. He has won awards for his political podcast and digital journalism.
In 2019, Chorley toured his one-man comedy political show, This is Not Normal, around the UK.
At the 2020 London Press Club, Chorley won Digital Journalist of the Year for his Red Box political email newsletter and podcast for The Times.
Three reasons why Matt Chorley inspires and motivates the Brigadoon network:
+ Editor of Red Box, The Times’ political email and podcast, giving an insider’s guide to life in Westminster with additional comment, polling, analysis - and a sense of humor
+ Joined The Times in 2016 after a decade covering politics at MailOnline, Independent on Sunday, Western Morning News and Press Association
+ Expanded media reach by launching a stand-up comedy show This. Is. Not. Normal.
Five Weekend Reads:
Inside the lucrative world of falcon racing: The fastest birds can win millions at prestigious events in the Middle East. The birds are remarkable hunters and some species can reach speeds of more than 200mph as they swoop on their prey. Bedouins are skilled at training the raptors to catch game such as smaller birds, reptiles, and hares in the harsh desert conditions. The photographer Kiki Streitberger captured the prized raptors and their owners.
The Times
Beatles on the brink: How Peter Jackson pieced together the Fab Four’s last days: The director’s new documentary weaves together hours of unseen footage to dispel many myths about the band’s final months. John Harris, who was involved in the project, tells the inside story.
Guardian
Forget COP26 boasts — decarbonizing takes thousands of tiny, boring steps: Truly green companies redesign their products rather than buying offsets or planting trees.
Brooke Masters
Can entrepreneurship be taught in a classroom? As the pandemic reshapes entire industries, the need for agile entrepreneurs has never been more urgent. But traditional business education isn’t always optimized for preparing the next generation of leaders for an uncertain, rapidly changing world. Nevertheless, some business schools have pioneered new teaching models designed to teach entrepreneurship more effectively by focusing on “effectuation,” or leveraging existing resources to take action. New research sheds light on two new models for entrepreneurship education: Rotman’s operating theater classroom, in which startups are interrogated in front of an audience of students, and Darden’s rewiring approach, in which students are encouraged to embrace an action-oriented, collaborative mindset.
HBR
How Pappy Van Winkle became a wildly expensive, impossible-to-find unicorn: The fact of the matter is, there wasn’t just one thing that turned Pappy Van Winkle into an impossible-to-find unicorn. As more people started to talk about it, Pappy became famous for being famous.
Wine Enthusiast
Quote of the Week:
"Pencil. Paper. Forget the world." -- Shaun Hick
10 songs for this weekend
Splinter - Scott Hutchison & James Graham & James Graham
Abre Las Manos - Devendra Banhart
Superlove - Lenny Kravitz
Don't Swallow the Cap - The National
Generator - Mondo Cozmo
Wheat Kings - The Tragically Hip
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Hello Time Bomb - Matthew Good Band
How Long (feat. Panama) Bag Raiders
It All Feels the Same - Dreams We've Had
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David Hieatt is the Co-Founder of Hiut Denim Co and The Do Lectures.
He is active in building them into influential global brands.
The quest for Hiut is to get 400 people their jobs back in a small town that used to have Britain's biggest jeans factory. To have the biggest impact on its community while seeking to have the lowest impact on the planet.
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Brigadoon ITK | Oct. 1
GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT + POLITICS
Chastened Trudeau gets back to work after Canada delivers poll shrug: The prime minister has seized the center-ground in politics but lost his early energy.
FT
+ The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be limited to spectators who reside in China. Tickets will be sold to residents who meet COVID-19 prevention requirements
France’s humiliation by America will have lasting effects: Snubbed over subs, President Emmanuel Macron is even keener to build up European autonomy.
Economist
+ "You can’t lose four elections and not change." -- Sir Keir Starmer when asked if he is moving the Labour party away from ‘the left.’
DISRUPTION + INNOVATION
Climate change is the new dot-com bubble: The free market has plenty of grandiose ideas about how to fix our broken planet. There's just one problem: We can't afford another bust.
Wired
The future of getting there: Sustainability is an enormous question for cities and governments around the world. Carmakers and others are busy coming up with ideas about what mobility-to-come might look like.
FT
COMMERCE
The BlackBerry and me: What the near-extinct device says about aging and nostalgia.
Janan Ganesh
Petrol, pints, and pasta: Meet one of the lorry drivers plugging Britain’s shortages: Barry Davies supplies Britain with everything from avocados to papier-mâché dinosaurs – now truckers like him are in short supply. What drives him?
1843 Magazine
+ In a 2016 Harvard Business Review analysis, two writers calculated the annual cost of excess corporate bureaucracy as about $3 trillion, with an average of one manager per every 4.7 workers
CULTURE
Ma Yansong takes LA: How the quiet force behind George Lucas’ museum makes his mark
LAT
The real appeal of reality stars: Reality shows bring “ordinary people” into our homes as entertainment, presenting celebrities to us “cafeteria-style.”
JSTOR
SPORT
The NBA’s richest owner enters the arena arms race: WP reports Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft executive turned Los Angeles Clippers owner, broke ground on the Intuit Dome, which aims to be pro basketball’s premier arena. The Intuit Dome, which will be part of a complex that also houses the Clippers’ business offices and practice facility, could eventually cost more than $2 billion.
‘Do you know how to snowboard?’: Saudi Arabia tries out for its first Winter Olympics: Desert kingdom prepares for next year’s Beijing Games with an indoor ski slope at a Riyadh mall as its off-season base.
WSJ
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Brigadoon ITK | Sep. 30
1. An end to super-cheap money? FT reports the mounting evidence of labor shortages and the apparent recovery in spending generated the tilt toward being more aggressive with interest rates. The US Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting featured the most explicit acknowledgment yet that it is preparing to dial back the emergency support put in place in the early days of the pandemic to stave off a much more pronounced contraction.
2. How Xi Jinping lost Australia: Politico reports that Australia thought it was on the cusp of a beautiful friendship with China nearly ten years ago. It opened up its economy to Beijing, wanted to teach Mandarin in schools, and invited the Chinese president to address parliament.
Now, that's all over.
These days, Australia is buying up nuclear-powered submarines to fend off Beijing, barring the country from key markets and bristling at its relentless attempts to coerce Australian politicians and media.
In part, the head-spinning shift reflects the rising global wariness of China's increasingly pugilistic behavior.
Xi's "Wolf Warrior" tactics pushed Australia right back into its traditional military nexus, with the US and UK, costing Beijing a potentially valuable partner in the region.
3. Dara Khosrowshahi, the man reforming Uber: As the company approaches profitability for the first time, the chief executive faces new challenges to its model.
FT reports Khosrowshahi's efforts to rehabilitate Uber's reputation could go flat tire, as it goes toe-to-toe with drivers seeking employment status and local authorities trying to protect restaurants. Several significant markets, including San Francisco and New York City, have moved to limit the commissions levied on sales of the delivery sector.
On top of that, there is continued opposition against the employment model of its core ride-sharing business.
4. The psychology of betting big and losing it all: Ben Carlson writes on well-known bettor Norm Macdonald:
"The risk-taking mentality that allowed him to lose all his money on numerous occasions was the same one that allowed him to make it in the entertainment business as a stand-up comedian.
"Becoming famous has much lower odds than gambling, yet Macdonald won that bet on himself."
5. Fendi and Versace team up for a design experiment: At Milan Fashion Week, the NYT reports introducing Fendace, aka Fendi by Versace, or Versace by Fendi, the pre-spring 2022 pop-up collections created by Kim Jones, Fendi's women's wear artistic director and Silvia Venturini Fendi, Fendi's men's wear designer, and Donatella Versace of Versace, in which the designers tried their hands at the other's house and then showed the results on the runway.
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