🐐 The Lionel Messi Guide to Living

Plus: Elon Musk was always a visionary jerk, bad boss at SpaceX, Tesla. But it won't work at Twitter.

Today’s pick

The Lionel Messi Guide to Living. The literary critic Edward Said coined the phrase late style to describe the final works of a composer or writer—when the decay of the body can't help but inform artistry, when creativity is infused with the bumps, bruises, and wisdom of a… (Franklin Foer / The Atlantic)

Franklin Foer @FranklinFoer

My take on the final: Messi showed how age informs artistry. His performance was a model of how to live.

theatlantic.comThe Lionel Messi Guide to LivingLike any great artist, the aging soccer phenom showed a youth-obsessed world the potential glory of a late-style triumph.

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Elon Musk was always a visionary jerk, bad boss at SpaceX, Tesla. But it won't work at Twitter. Elon Musk has a pretty tried-and-true playbook for doing business — he's used it for years to build companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Unfortunately for him, it is not a model that can turn Twitter into a profitable company. It's one that will… (Linette Lopez / Business Insider)

Judd Legum @JuddLegum

A must-read on @elonmusk from Linette Lopez, one of the journalists that Musk has suspended from Twitter. She has covered his business activities with a critical eye for years.

businessinsider.comAt Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk was a jerk with a grand vision. At Twitter, he’s just a jerk.Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

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How Sam Bankman-Fried swindled $8 billion in customer money, according to federal prosecutors. CNBC pulled together a history of the implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire, based upon the charges brought this week by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and in civil suits filed by the Securities and Exchange… (Rohan Goswami, MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC)

MacKenzie Sigalos @KenzieSigalos

Unsealed charges brought this week by SDNY federal prosecutors & civil suits by the SEC & CFTC offer insight into one of the highest-profile fraud prosecutions since Enron. Pulled details from all 3 to piece together SBF's $8B swindle: cnb.cx/3v631DL w/@rogoswami

cnb.cxHow Sam Bankman-Fried swindled $8 billion in customer money, according to federal prosecutorsBankman-Fried’s swift fall from hero to villain of the crypto sector exposed a years-long fraud that traced back to FTX’s launch in 2019, according to authorities.

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Qatar Got the World Cup It Wanted. DOHA, Qatar — In the end, Qatar got what it wanted. The tiny desert state, a thumb-shaped peninsula, craved nothing more than to be better known, to be a player on the world stage, when in 2009 it launched what seemed like an improbable bid… (Tariq Panja / The New York Times)

tariq panja @tariqpanja

Messi won. Money won. The end. via @nytimes

nytimes.comQatar Got the World Cup It WantedIn the end, after a tournament shadowed by controversy since the host rights were awarded, Qatar had the turn in the global spotlight it sought.

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Tech's Bust Delivers Bruising Blow to Hollowed-Out San Francisco. San Francisco's Salesforce Tower opened almost five years ago as a monument to the region's tech-driven economy, piercing the skyline as the tallest office building on the US West Coast. It symbolized a boom for the city's downtown, alongside a new… (Romy Varghese / Bloomberg)

Bloomberg @business

NEW: Tech layoffs, falling stock prices and the crypto meltdown, as well as a looming global recession, are likely to be extra painful for San Francisco, a city long known for innovation and astonishing wealth. Read The Big Take ⬇️

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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