Brigadoon ITK | Oct. 25

COP26 aims to end coal, but the world is still addicted: Humanity remains deeply dependent on coal.
Bloomberg

Broken promises, energy shortages, and COVID-19 will hamper COP26: It is the most important climate conference in years.
Economist

Inside the new plan to make Paris ‘100% cyclable’: The French capital is dramatically expanding its network of segregated bike lanes and more than tripling bicycle parking spots as part of a massive new investment.
Bloomberg

Downtown Brooklyn’s greener, car-free future is taking root: The borough’s 2019 plan for a pedestrian-friendly downtown has been given a push by pandemic-era street changes. But right now, traffic still reigns.
Bloomberg

The number of years since launch:

Amazon: 26 years
Google: 23 years
Netflix: 23 years
Facebook: 17 years
Gmail: 17 years
Twitter: 15 years
iPhone: 14 years
Spotify: 13 years
Bitcoin: 12 years
Uber: 11 years
Instagram: 11 years
Snapchat: 10 years
Zoom: 9 years
TikTok: 4 years

Indra Nooyi: ‘Companies like ours are little republics’: The former PepsiCo chief on changing giant businesses, how to help more women succeed — and why obesity is not the food industry’s fault alone.
FT

Yes, you can only work 5 hours and call it a day. Here’s how to make it productive: An accidental discovery made one worker stop putting in eight-hour days without missing a beat.
Fast Company

The 2021 restaurant list
NYT

At a Loss: Why so few Super Bowl–losing teams make it back: Hangover? Curse? Or something more benign? Only eight times in 55 years has a team that lost the Super Bowl returned to play it again the next year. SI asked runner-up coaches, players, and execs—and took a deeper dive into the data—to find out: Why is it so hard to get back?
SI

The day Chuck Hughes died: Remembering the only NFL player to die in a game
SN

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Marie-Louise Sciò, Cold War, Éric Zemmour, Nuclear Fusion, Quitting, Big-wave | Brigadoon Weekend

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October 23, 2021

Get to Know:

Marie-Louise Sciò

Marie-Louise Sciò is the CEO and Creative Director of Pellicano Group's three Italian hotels, the Mezzatorre on Ischia, La Posta Vecchia in Ladispoli and Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole.

She's also the founder of the Italian lifestyle and e-commerce platform ISSIMO, which launched as a digital extension of the Pellicano world.

She is a Rhode Island School of Design architecture graduate and all-around tastemaker.

Her signature style is elegant, timeless, and understated luxury.

Three reasons why Marie-Louise Sciò is global street smart:

+ Grew up in a Slim Aarons photograph

+ Editor at Large @ Air Mail Weekly

+ Studied design and architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design

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Five Weekend Reads:

A Cold War saga in Biden’s Washington: Members of the intelligence community are increasingly convinced that the Russian government is behind the hundreds of terrifying directed-energy attacks on diplomats and spies known as the Havana Syndrome. Will Congress respond to the “medium confidence” intelligence with countermeasures? As one member of the community told me, “We got bin Laden with medium confidence.”
Puck

Plan Z: The rise of Éric Zemmour: The fact that Éric Zemmour hasn’t yet declared himself a candidate in next year’s French presidential election is a bit of a joke. A Harris poll last week put him on 17 percent, ahead of all other rivals to President Emmanuel Macron.
Freddy Gray

Nuclear fusion edges toward the mainstream: Long-shot money is flowing into start-ups that seek the energy of the stars. Driving the investments is a rising alarm about global warming.
NYT

It’s quitting season: It’s been a brutal few years. But we’ve gritted through. We’ve spent time languishing. We’ve had one giant national burnout. And now, finally, we’re quitting. We are quitting our jobs. Our cities. Our marriages. Even our Twitter feeds. We’re not quitting because we’re weak. We’re quitting because we’re smart.
Lindsay Crouse + Kirby Ferguson

The big-wave safety paradox: Are the recent advancements in safety equipment and protocols making big-wave lineups more dangerous?
Patagonia

Quote of the Week:

“I never imagined supply chain problems would force me to drink so much Californian wine.” -- Emmanuel Roman, California-based PIMCO's French CEO

10 songs for this weekend

Feel Good - Ty Segall & Denée Segall
Go On - Ted Jasper
Buggin' Out - A Tribe Called Quest
Waxy Moon Pie - The Go Rounds
Love Spreads - The Stone Roses
Idontknow - Jamie XX
Oh Baby - LCD Soundsystem
Deep & Dream - Amir Farhoodi
Hello Good Morning (featuring TI) -Diddy
No Time To Play - Guru
Back On a Mission - Cirrus
Chaise Lounge - Wet Leg
Fool to Think - Dave Matthews Band
Ultimatum (featuring Fatoumata Daiwara) - Disclosure
Ngui Yi - Blick Bassy

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Brigadoon ITK | Oct. 21

Analysis: Xi Jinping's plan to rule for life is coming together: Third historical resolution and 2035 'common prosperity' target outline path forward.
Nikkei

US politics: Virginia governor’s race offers first test of Biden presidency: Victory for a Republican former private equity executive would serve as a warning for Democrats before next year’s midterms.
FT

Electric cars are shifting the center of the auto universe: EV’s are giving the South and Southwest a one-time chance to wrest control of the US automobile industry from the Midwest.
Conor Sen

+ “We are going through the greatest realignment of global value chains in our lifetime.” -- Mauricio Claver-Carone, president, Inter-American Development Bank

A Facebook rebrand could be a huge risk: Renaming the social media giant would be a way to deflect attention away from its content problems. A troubling but shrewd move.
Parmy Olson + Ben Schott

Using recycled cathodes makes better lithium batteries, study finds: The materials create a more porous structure for the ions to negotiate.
Jonathan Gitlin

+ Bitcoin rallied to a record, topping $66,000 for the first time

The true cost of upgrading your phone: Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee.
NYT

+ PayPal is exploring a $45 billion acquisition of Pinterest

It’s quitting season
Lindsay Crouse + Kirby Ferguson

Review: 'The French Dispatch' is a film of 4 quirky stories
AP

+ OTD: In 1992 the singer Madonna released her 128-page coffee-table book Sex, containing erotica and sexual fantasies.

Christian Horner: ‘You have to defend yourself if you come under attack’
Guardian

+ Red Bull’s team principal on his spiky rivalry with Toto Wolff and why a Max Verstappen title win would be his ‘biggest achievement’

In the new NFL, teams are scoring on two-minute drives like never before: Over the past two decades, NFL teams scored a little more than 13 percent of the time when getting the ball with less than two minutes left in a one-score game. This season, offenses have scored on almost 30 percent of such drives.
WP

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Brigadoon ITK | Oct. 20

How kidnappers, zealots, and rebels are making Nigeria ungovernable: President Buhari has allowed the rot to deepen.
Economist

+ Rumors of an early general election in 2023 persist in Westminster

Brazilian leader’s pandemic handling draws explosive allegation: Homicide: A long-awaited report from a panel of Brazilian senators concludes that Jair Bolsonaro purposely let the coronavirus kill Brazilians in a failed bid for herd immunity.
NYT

“I know President Biden. He’s a great man, but he doesn’t understand monetary policy.” -- Scott Minerd, Guggenheim global chief investment officer

Could Mexico be the next Denmark? The country is poised for a long period of unspectacular but steady economic growth.
Tyler Cowen

+ Former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon appeals to Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to meet and find common ground

Flexitarians, pescatarians, and a big meat conundrum: The rules around vegetarianism and meat-eating used to be simple. Now there are ever more grey areas.
Zoe Williams

Apple’s product design has improved since Jony Ive left: The pendulum is swinging back from cool to practical.
Bloomberg

Russian space movie director says moon or Mars could be next
Reuters

Bloomberg: HBO’s ‘Succession’ draws 1.4 million viewers in season premiere

+ The season premiere of “Succession” drew 1.4 million viewers across all platforms, making it the most-watched debut of an HBO original series over the past year and a half

Watch: Crypto or cannabis strain: Can New Yorkers tell the difference?
Morning Brew

The big-wave safety paradox: Are the recent advancements in safety equipment and protocols making big-wave lineups more dangerous?
Patagonia

The NBA would like you to stop talking about Kyrie Irving
Will Leitch

+ NBA opening-night rosters to feature 109 international players

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