Brigadoon ITK | Oct. 7

GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT + POLITICS

Traffic lights gone dark. Factories shut down. What caused China’s power crisis?
LAT

Power crunch looms in India as coal stocks reach crisis point: More than half the country’s power plants have less than three days of supplies remaining.
FT

How hydrogen will help industrials meet decarbonization goals and leave fossil fuels behind: With funding and industry interest in hydrogen tech reaching record highs, we explain how the element can be used to decarbonize operations — across manufacturing, transportation, and utilities — and address key challenges and opportunities in the space.
CB Insights

DISRUPTION + INNOVATION

‘False choice’: Is deep-sea mining required for an electric vehicle revolution?
Guardian

COMMERCE

Over half of Twitter users say they “regularly” get news on the site, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. 2020 was a busy year for news, with both the US presidential election and the Covid-19 outbreak, explaining the slight dip in 2021 news consumption for most social media sites. Bucking the trend, TikTok has seen an increase in the percentage of users who say they regularly get news on the app. The viral app has leveraged its personalization and recommendation algorithms to grow its young and highly engaged user base.

News consumption across social media in 2021: More than half of Twitter users get news on the site regularly.
Pew Research Center

CULTURE

Stan Smith is a shoe—and now w watch
Tim Newcomb

Daniel Humm: Monocle sits down with celebrated chef Daniel Humm to discuss the challenges of navigating the pandemic and the future of the restaurant industry.
Monocle

SPORT

Is Kanoa Igarashi the LeBron of surfing? Born in Surf City USA, and the descendant of an actual samurai, Japan’s surfing superstar is ready for the sport’s debut on the world stage.
Outside

Beyond impossible: Mark Jenkins, who has climbed and written about climbing for decades, ponders the audacious exploits and soulful purity of Marc-André Leclerc, brought to life in the new documentary The Alpinist.
Red Bulletin

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Brigadoon ITK | Oct. 6

GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT + POLITICS

This is why China finally halted its bitcoin boom: Chinese authorities have tried to ban cryptocurrencies many times before. This time, it’s different.
Wired

+ The reasons for China’s increasingly severe bans on crypto range from its role as a vehicle for money laundering and smuggling, to environmental pollution and the intensive electricity used in mining for bitcoin.

Meanwhile in India, a sixth of urban Indians are investors in cryptocurrency: Quartz reports India’s cryptocurrency craze could be set to grab a bigger share of the investment pie. According to a survey conducted by consulting firm Kantar, 19% of urban Indians intend to invest in virtual tokens in the next six months. Those who claim to currently own cryptocurrency—16%—mostly fall in the age bracket of 21-35, and live in metro cities. Teenagers are also investing.

DISRUPTION + INNOVATION

Electric cars have hit an inflection point: One sign EVs are no longer the auto industry’s neglected stepchild? Norway could sell its last gas-powered car as soon as next year.
Robinson Meyer

COMMERCE

alkspace president on therapy app's explosive pandemic growth: 'It was a pivotal moment': President Mark Hirschhorn on how the pandemic and the rise of telemedicine have helped fuel the digital disruptor’s mission to democratize access to affordable mental health care.
US Chamber

+ By 2024, the sleep industry is expected to be worth $585B

Latin America finds a champion in SoftBank Group International CEO Marcelo Claure: SoftBank is gaga for startups in Latin America. Since first announcing it was planting a stake in the ground in the region in early 2019, the Japanese conglomerate has plugged more than $5 billion into the region, and it expects that number to top $8 billion by year’s end.
TC

Global IB exam chief: How jazz provides lessons in management: The International Baccalaureate’s Olli-Pekka Heinonen believes that leadership centers on implementation, not strategy.
FT

CULTURE

Elevate your après-ski game with these whiskey cocktails: Ski season is right around the corner, which means après season is, too.
Outside

My mission to find the best truck of all time: At some point in every adventurous life, you need to pursue something completely trivial with such single-minded focus that it nearly drives you mad. Allow me to explain.
Nick Heil

SPORT

Could thru-hiking Colorado’s fourteeners become a thing? Pawel Szafruga recently did the unthinkable by summiting all of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in a single thru-hike. Will others follow?
Outside

The natural: Izzi Gomez: If there’s a limit to how far five-time stand-up paddle surfing world champion Izzi Gomez can go in surfing, she hasn’t found it yet.
Red Bulletin

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Brigadoon October Call

Do one thing well

David Hieatt | Co-Founder of Hiut Denim Co + The Do Lectures
2:00 pm ET | Wednesday, October 20, 2021
$45 | Brigadoon Members attend free

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.

The Do Lectures is a network that exists to encourage people and their businesses to do amazing things. The talks are given to the world for free. That is paid for by attendees at the global Do Lectures event and workshops around the globe.

The talks have been viewed over 150 million times. Plus, the Do Book Co publishes a series of books from speakers at The Do Lectures. They are available throughout the world.

These are two of my favorite Do Books: Do Open and Stay Curious.

David is a highly sought after public speaker. He has spoken at Apple, Red Bull, Facebook, Google, John Lewis, and Waitrose.

It is fantastic he said yes to speak with Brigadoon.

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Brigadoon ITK | Oct. 5

GLOBALIZATION + STATECRAFT + POLITICS

Misinformation is about to get so much worse: A conversation with the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Saahil Desai

Why science can't settle political disputes: Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy, based on the belief that science is purified of politics, may be damaging democracy.
MIT Press Reader

Cambodia’s prime minister is Zoombombing opposition meetings: Hun Sen’s government, which has shown little hesitation in quashing any sign of dissent, is taking control of user activities on the internet.
ROW

DISRUPTION + INNOVATION

Bad bosses: What’s wrong with labor algorithms
Knowledge @ Wharton

“When you have an algorithm as a boss, it’s a hard and at times even unforgiving supervisor.” -- Lindsey Cameron

COMMERCE

Will TikTok make you buy it? Give any social media platform long enough, and it turns into a mall.
NYT

It has come to subscription tacos: Even Taco Bell is a tech company now.
Saahil Desai

DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain: The firm worked with UK weather forecasters to create a model that was better at making short-term predictions than existing systems.
MIT TR

CULTURE

How Peyton and Eli Manning are changing television: An alternate ‘Monday Night Football’ becomes an instant hit on what was once a dull evening.
Jason Gay

SPORT

Payson McElveen just biked across Iceland in less than a day: The endurance cyclist completed the 257-mile Iceland Crossing route in 19 hours and 45 minutes.
Outside

Breaking's journey from the streets to the Olympics: The Boogie Down Bronx, Bruce Lee, and Red Bull BC One: Explore the origins and milestones of competitive breaking.
Red Bulletin

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