A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’s!

I hope you all enjoy quieter days / nights, hopefully spent with loved ones

Fifteen on Friday will return in 2024

Cheers!

David

• Time – 2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift  Taylor Swift is telling me a story, and when Taylor Swift tells you a story, you listen, because you know it’s going to be good—not only because she’s had an extraordinary life, but because she’s an extraordinary storyteller.
• BusinessWeek – Lord of the Deep – Credit ML – For years a shipwreck hunter has battled governments and rivals over the ocean floor’s riches. He’s kept his identity a secret, until now.
• TheAtlantic – The Great Cousin Decline  Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one.
• WSJ – Why We’re All Still Watching ‘Love Actually’  It started with a tiny release. Now it is a holiday juggernaut
• NYT – Apple Is Doing Its Part to End Green Bubble Shaming. It’s Our Turn.  While texting technology will soon get better, the “blue versus green bubble” disparity is far from over.

• HBR – How Will You Measure Your Life?  This is a classic article by the late Clayton Christensen.  I re-read typically every December as I work on annual goals for the year ahead.  “Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your career.”
• BenedictEvans – AI, and Everything else  Benedict’s slide decks on technology are always a must read – this deep dive on AI is no different
• NYMag – Jamie Dimon’s $4 Trillion Machine  He made JPMorgan Chase the biggest bank in the world. What is it, exactly?
• WSJ – He Built a Trillion-Dollar Company. He Wouldn’t Do It Again.  Jensen Huang, the CEO of the year’s most successful company, has a theory about the superpower of entrepreneurs

• TheAtlantic – Selling Art to the Rich, Famous and Inebriated  Behind the scenes during Art Basel Miami Beach—a weeklong bacchanal of parties, paintings, and pills held in the name of shopping for art
• NYT – Watergate Salad Makes a Comeback  
• 404Media – Local Governments Overwhelmed By Tennis-Pickleball Turf Wars, Documents Show  What I learned about the pickleball lobby and pickleball turf wars by reading thousands of pages of documents from inside local government.
• WSJ – Inside the Schools Where Boys Can Be Boys  All-male middle schools show what boys need to develop skills—and these lessons would work in coed schools, too
• NYT – Once They Were Pets. Now Giant Goldfish Are Menacing the Great Lakes.