Brigadoon ITK Daily Email
Curating the emerging issues and independent thinkers shaping commerce and culture.
5 topics 10 articles 5 times a week.
Sign up today.
It's free and spectacular.
Get added to the distribution list - Sign up today.
Brigadoon ITK | Oct. 4
GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT + POLITICS
The age of America first: Washington’s flawed new foreign policy consensus.
Richard Haass
Bombard the headquarters: Xi Jinping's crackdown keeps growing: The new 'common prosperity' doctrine hearkens back to the Mao era.
Nikkei
From big bang to a whimper: How to revive Britain’s stock market: London’s once high-flying bourse has spent the past decade tumbling back to earth.
Economist
DISRUPTION + INNOVATION
How artificial intelligence completed Beethoven’s unfinished Tenth Symphony: On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released.
The Conversation
COMMERCE
Clubhouse needs creators, but creators need cash: Hosts looked to Clubhouse for sponsors — it rarely delivered.
Verge
Jony Ive teams up with Ferrari to develop electric car: Former Apple designer’s LoveFrom signs deal with Agnelli family’s Exor.
FT
Electric Motor City: Ford and General Motors fight it out to electrify: The switch to battery power is the latest showdown between Detroit’s heavyweights.
Economist
CULTURE
The redemption of a televangelist: For decades, the mascara-laden Tammy Faye was relentlessly mocked. Maybe America got her wrong.
Jonathan Merritt
+ There are around 71,000 wild horses in the United States, with the bulk of them in Nevada with 43,000
Why is every young person in America watching ‘The Sopranos’? The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: A parable about a country in terminal decline.
NYT
SPORT
Sports gambling is a disaster waiting to happen: Betting on Tom Brady’s next completion may sound like harmless fun. But it’s not.
Will Leitch
+ 24.8m+ people played at least 1 round of golf in the US in 2020, a 2%+ increase YoY (the biggest jump in 17 years)
A rock star’s next act: Making Montana a skateboarding oasis: Jeff Ament, the bass guitarist and a founder of Pearl Jam, is seven years into his self-appointed mission to bring high-end skate parks to every city and town in Montana that will have one.
NYT
Get Brigadoon ITK Daily in your inbox.
Brigadoon ITK Daily Email.
Curating the emerging issues and independent thinkers shaping commerce and culture.
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 Brigadoon 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