Thursday morning news drop
Kevin Durant and (Possibly) the Greatest Basketball Team of All Time The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs? (New York Times)
Your father’s stock market is never coming back With a Robinhood account, your first exposure to cryptocurrencies does not frame them as an unproven alternative to stocks. The two stand on equal footing. Coke and Pepsi. Feel like trading one or the other? Have at it, no difference. This is radically different from the experience of the Gen X and boomer investors logging in through Schwab, Fidelity, or Vanguard to check their balances or download a statement. (Fortune)
How to fix America: Take a road trip from New York to California to see infrastructure projects with the potential to make cities more livable and equitable. (Bloomberg)
Billionaires are racing to sidestep President Biden’s plan to raise their taxes How Silicon Valley might beat the Tax Man. (Vox)
What Germany Can Teach America About Renewable Energy Bringing energiewende across the Pacific—this time with nuclear in the mix. (Slate)
‘We’re Not Going to See Tankers in Active Pass Ever Again’ Advocates celebrate after officials publicly ban tankers carrying dangerous cargo in the narrow passage. (Tyee)
Soft skills and hard times: Female leadership during COVID he shift from head to heart is not novel to human resources, but construction, a big and bold industry in many respects, has been slow to recognize the value of soft skills. In many cases, it has been even slower to shed the antiquated approach of authoritarian leadership. This changed last year when COVID-19 forced leaders to take extraordinary efforts to keep job sites not just physically safe, but psychologically safe. (On-Site)
