Friday morning news drop
CPP premiums set to rise in January, a bigger jump than planned Changing contribution rates now would require approval from Parliament and 7 provinces (CBC)
Blame Bad Weather for Your Bigger Bills Wild weather around the world wreaked havoc on markets for raw materials, lifting prices for everything from electricity and heat to houses and breakfast cereal. (Wall Street Journal)
The most unusual job market in modern American history, explained Quits, big raises and severe labor shortages: 10 charts on the completely surprising 2021 labor market (Washington Post)
Indexing the creator economy: In aggregating monetization across these 50 platforms, we’ve found that creators will soon pass more than $10 billion in aggregate earnings. While 2020 saw a jump in new creators, it wasn’t a one-time spike. A year later, creators are still coming online at a record clip: the number of creators is up a whopping 48% year-over-year. In total, these platforms have onboarded 668,000 creators. (Stripe)
The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are emerging. (Quanta Magazine)
How to Become a Better Listener While listening is a skill universally lauded, it’s rarely, if ever, explicitly taught as such, outside of training for therapists. A 2015 study showed that while 78% of accredited undergraduate business schools list “presenting” as a learning goal, only 11% identified “listening.” Listening is a skill that’s vitally important, sadly undertaught, and physically and mentally taxing. In the aftermath of Covid-19, particularly with the shift to remote work and the red-hot job market, it’s never been more important — or more difficult — for leaders to be good listeners. This article offers nine tips to help leaders become more active listeners, and a breakdown of the subskills involved in listening and how you can improve in them. (Harvard Business Review)
How Nicole Kidman Learned to Love Playing Lucille Ball There are valuable lessons Nicole Kidman has learned each time she plays a real-life figure: How that person was misapprehended by society at the time. How that era of history is more like the present day than she realized. And, crucially, how to maintain her balance while traipsing barefoot through a vat of grapes. (New York Times)
Videos of the Week
Danny MacAskill - Driveway Like so many others, back in Spring of 2020, due to government restrictions I found myself stuck at home with a lot of time on my hands. When I was younger, Pallets were always the go to obstacles for honing my skills on the Trials Bike, so it was only fitting to get 30 Pallets delivered to the house, turning the driveway into a wee trials park to keep us amused over the summer!
The Best MTB Sends From 2021 There was no shortage of riders going huge in 2021 and we've compiled the best clips that you submitted into 10 minutes of send.
Downhill Runs to Remember in 2021 | UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup 2021 has treated us with infinite amounts of wild downhill MTB racing. At times things got so heated even Rob Warner almost lost his voice, remember? No worries if you don't, here are 7 DH runs to remember from 2021.
Filming in MTB Dirt Jump Heaven La Poma | Behind the Scenes of The Old World Go behind the scenes on The Old World’s dream-like scene – La Poma, Spain. Founded by riders for riders, La Poma Bike Park is made with blood, sweat, tears & tons of experience from all corners of the globe. Join David Godziek, Bienvenido Aguado, Diego Caverzasi & Nico Scholze as they session of the best MTB dirt jump spots in Europe.
URGE | Felix Prangenberg After a year of dropping heavy video parts, winning X Games medals and being crowned “Rider Of The Year”, Felix Prangenberg delivers one hell of an encore performance to end 2021 with a bang.
Chapped Clips - Sunday Bikes: Remember when slappin’ fives was chill and chapped lips was the biggest thing we had to worry about? Back in March we whipped the van out to Las Vegas and flew in the rest of the team for 10 days of amazing spots, good times and dry climates. Everyone's lips were chapped by day two. Enjoy Brett Silva, Broc Raiford, Julian Arteaga, Aaron Ross, Gary Young, Erik Elstran, Jake Seeley, Alec Siemon, Jared Duncan, and Justin Schual in “Chapped Clips.” Video: Zach Krejmas.
Yo - Ryo Aizawa: DC Snow is proud to present Ryo Aizawa in Yo, our third and final video of the year. This high-energy edit goes hard from start to finish. Filmed entirely in Japan, Ryo mows down the most unique street spots with his natural street style riding and razor sharp trick selection.
Who Is The Unbelievable Snowskater? | Dave Engerer Dave Engerer is the perfect example of the 'Detroit Hustles Harder' mentality: the amateur skater nails down clips, then comes back to the same spot when it's snowing and doubles down on the footage as a snowskate pro for Ambition. In this video, Engerer explains how he started snowskating and why juggling his two careers is snow problem for him. (You'll never catch him hibernating.)
MASHER: Ohio Gregson hits Skatopia and one of the world's biggest pits in hot pursuit of Kevin Kowalski, Tom Schaar and Tristan Rennie.