New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic | The Economist

April 1, 2023

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/03/02/new-drugs-could-spell-an-end-to-the-worlds-obesity-epidemic


Tea kettle

March 30, 2023

https://fellowproducts.com/products/stagg-ekg-electric-pour-over-kettle?variant=18635551211635


Backbeat FIT 3200 User Guide

March 29, 2023

https://www.poly.com/content/dam/plantronics/documents-and-guides/user-guides/backbeat-fit-3200-ug-en.pdf
manual for black ear buds


Book Review: ‘Unscripted,” by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams – The New York Times

March 28, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/books/review/unscripted-james-stewart-rachel-abrams.html


Maui Four Seasons

March 28, 2023

https://www.salon.com/2022/12/17/the-lotus-hotels-sicily-maui/


Yankees worth $7.1 billion as MLB team values rise amid TV turmoil

March 27, 2023

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35925638/yankees-worth-71-billion-mlb-team-values-rise-amid-tv-turmoil


Leaving LastPass

March 26, 2023

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/904?autostart=false

Found the whole @LastPass debacle depressing. First, I trusted [Steve Gibson’s] endorsement. Then I trusted it. Now I’m unsure what to do.

Bitwarden? 1password ?


Wal-Mart Update, 2017

March 26, 2023

https://store.hbr.org/product/wal-mart-update-2017/717468?sku=717468-PDF-ENG

Wal-Mart Update, 2017

by David B. Yoffie and Eric Baldwin

Publication Date: April 04, 2017
….
In 2017 Wal-Mart was still the world’s largest company, with over $480 billion in annual revenue and operations in 28 countries. Although it had mostly vanquished its rival discount retailers in the U.S., it was struggling to find the right growth strategy. Facing a mature U.S. market, it had looked to international sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart’s leadership had targeted the rapidly-growing e-commerce arena as strategic priority, but there it faced intense competition from dominant online retailer Amazon. In such a
competitive environment, how should Wal-Mart respond to the reality that its traditional strengths no longer guaranteed robust growth?

Product #: 717468-PDF-ENG


Wal-Mart Update, 2017

March 26, 2023

Wal-Mart Update, 2017

by David B. Yoffie and Eric Baldwin

Publication Date: April 04, 2017
….
In 2017 Wal-Mart was still the world’s largest company, with over $480 billion in annual revenue and operations in 28 countries. Although it had mostly vanquished its rival discount retailers in the U.S., it was struggling to find the right growth strategy. Facing a mature U.S. market, it had looked to international sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart’s leadership had targeted the rapidly-growing e-commerce arena as strategic priority, but there it faced intense competition from dominant online retailer Amazon. In such a
competitive environment, how should Wal-Mart respond to the reality that its traditional strengths no longer guaranteed robust growth?

Product #: 717468-PDF-ENG


Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

March 26, 2023

https://hbr.org/2012/09/your-strategy-needs-a-strategy

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns
HBR (September 2012)