2nd May 2022
Essential reading. From The Mindfulness Initiative, a new policy report, Reconnection: Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out. This groundbreaking report calls urgently for policy attention to the neglectedinner dimension of the climate crisis, and outlines the importance of mindfulness and compassion practices in restoring the conscious connection fundamental to human and planetary health.
Amazon-as-a-service, integrates Prime benefits and functionality into third party merchant sites even if they don’t sell in Amazon’s store. Part of an ambition to not only to take an ever-greater slice of commerce through their own destinations (e.g. marketplace) but also to become integrated right across the entire commerce ecosystem.
Vice reports that (according to a leaked internal memo) Facebook has no idea where all of its user data goes, or what it’s doing with it…..
Wanting to attract the best talent possible (globally) Airbnb announce that their employees can live and work anywhere, in what seems to be a very enticing approach to hybrid (including the option to live and work in 170 countries for up to 90 days a year in each location).
On the flip side to the above, apparently (and no surprise?) new research shows that we’re worse at generating creative ideas on Zoom than in person.
Why Hotels Are Perfect Story Vehicles For Nations. It is doing and not telling…the marketing and word-of-mouth that has come as a result of hotels has been impressive. By making the hospitality space a proxy for the best parts of national culture, you make things more tangible, more sensory, and create a deeper emotional bond between the guest and the country.
A chart showing just how innovative Snap has been over the last 10 years. ‘Comparing this with an equivalent version for Twitter would be… painful‘ @benedictevans
The Secret Code of Beauty Spots. Fake facial beauty spots were the emoji of the 17th century. They came in many shapes and conveyed all kinds of messages. (ht@storythings)
“Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.” —A surveillance drone warns angry Shanghai residents not to shout from their windows, as the city’s extensive lockdown continues.
Try Heardle (instead of wordle) where instead of trying to work out five letter words, you have five goes to name that tune (ht@neilperkin)