🤔 How to Solve Remote Work's Biggest Problem

Plus: Youtube ends Lofi Girl's two-year-long music stream over bogus DMCA warning, GameStop launches NFT marketplace as it hunts for growth in digital-fueled turnaround, and more…

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How to Solve Remote Work's Biggest Problem. Remote work seems fully entrenched in American life. Offices are more than half empty nationwide, while restaurants and movie theaters are packed. Housing prices in suburbs and small towns have surged as white-collar workers take advantage of the… (Derek Thompson / The Atlantic)

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

I wrote about remote work's 3 biggest problems 1. It's good for established employees but it's often hard for new workers. 2. It's good for experienced groups but worse for building new teams 3. It's good for settled strategies but worse for new ideas

theatlantic.comThe Biggest Problem With Remote WorkCompanies need a new kind of middle manager: the synchronizer.

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Youtube ends Lofi Girl's two-year-long music stream over bogus DMCA warning. here are three constants in life: death, taxes and the “ lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to ” YouTube stream. That is, until YouTube falsely hit the Lofi Girl channel with a… (Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch)

amanda silberling @asilbwrites

Creators think that YouTube's DMCA takedown system is too easy to exploit, and this weekend's removal of @lofigirl's two-year-long "lofi radio" streams are only the tip of the iceberg. New on @TechCrunch:

techcrunch.comYoutube ends Lofi Girl’s two-year-long stream over bogus DMCA warning – TechCrunchThough the music stream will be back soon, Lofi Girl says false DMCA takedowns are “an underlying problem on the platform.”

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GameStop launches NFT marketplace as it hunts for growth in digital-fueled turnaround. GameStop on Monday announced the long-awaited debut of its online marketplace for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. The platform, which is now open to the public for beta testing, allows users to connect their own digital asset wallets including the… (Lauren Thomas, Melissa Repko / CNBC)

Lauren Thomas @laurenthomas

NEW: GameStop is finally debuting its marketplace for #NFTs, as the videogame retailer aims to cash in on consumer adoption of #cryptocurrencies and #blockchain tech. Is this going to be enough to fuel its turnaround?🎮💰 $gme w/ @melissa_repko cnbc.com/2022/07/11/gam…

cnbc.comGameStop launches NFT marketplace as it hunts for growth in digital-fueled turnaroundThis is the latest push by the videogame retailer, now chaired by Chewy founder and activist investor Ryan Cohen, to invest in a digital future.

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Here's the first, high-resolution image of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope. The first image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was released tonight by president Joe Biden. There it is, folks: The highest-resolution picture of the universe ever captured—about 13 billion years ago. You can download the full… (Tim Fernholz / Quartz)

David Yanofsky @YAN0

cooooooooool We have the full resolution first image from the #JWST here... all 8 million pixels qz.com/2186988/

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As Elon Musk Walks, Twitter Workers Say No One's in Charge. Elon Musk's July 8 decision to unilaterally pull out of the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter may have fallen afoul of the terms of his takeover agreement and baffled the general public. It also caused chaos within Twitter's ranks. “Twitter… (Chris Stokel-Walker / WIRED)

Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel

🔥 “Musk fucked around with us, fucked with the share price, catalyzed a load of redundancies and cuts. Morale is so fucking low that nobody wants to be here now anyway.” Twitter employees aren't happy. My latest for @WIRED with @tsimonite & @telliotter wired.com/story/as-elon-…

wired.comAs Elon Musk Walks, Twitter Workers Say No One’s in ChargeDays after the deal to buy Twitter fell apart, fed up employees say they are being kept in the dark.

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