Happy Friday –

Have a great weekend

– David

Featured Articles: 

• WSJ – I Stayed Up Late With Snoop Dogg at the Paris Olympics  A conversation with the hip-hop legend turned NBC’s breakout coverage star
• TheAtlantic – Why We’re Banning Phones at Our School  Unfettered phone usage at school is hurting our kids and depriving them of connection. But it’s not too late to make a change.
• NYT – The Interview: Melinda French Gates Is Ready to Take Sides
• PriyaParker – Why Designing for Introverts is Better for Everyone.  Quieter super hosts tend to rely on design rather than, say, the force of their personality to create artful gatherings.
• EscapingFlatland – Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born  One thing that sets these intensely creative individuals apart, as far as I can tell, is that when sitting with their thoughts they are uncommonly willing to linger in confusion. 

Business / Markets:

• NYT – Has the Long Friendship of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Reached Its Final Act?
• A16Z – Nobody Cares  “Just win baby.” – Al Davis
• NT – Overcoming The Fear of Market Entry
• KnoxNews – From the football field to the corner office: Meet Adam Wright, the new CEO of Pilot – Credit MB – great profile

Others…

• WSJ – Wait, Why Is the Paris Olympic Running Track So Purple?  The brightly colored surface at the Stade de France is a shock to track-and-field traditionalists, but the athletes aren’t complaining. ‘It’s gorgeous.’
• TheAtlantic – How M. Night Shyamalan Came Back From the Dead The filmmaker weathered some of the wildest hype and harshest backlash that Hollywood has to offer. Then he found a different path.
• QZ – Life Would Be Better If We Added This Line to Every Email  Simple as that, if everyone included this line at the end of their emails—”Please don’t write me a novel, I won’t read it”—in time, the novels would stop coming.
• Scientific American – Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind  So-called “information realism” has some surprising implications.