The 100

ICYMI

• Trump was shot at a rally. J.D. Vance is his confirmed number two. And everybody — I mean everybody — has something to say about it.

Something Funny

• After the fall of the Soviet Union, McDonald's opened restaurants in Russia. One of the first challenges was teaching Russian workers to smile. The workers believed that people smiling without reason are either crazy or just American. (source: A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna).

Articles (And One Video)

• A neurosurgeon’s 5 activities for keeping a sharp mind.

• The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 according to the World Economic Forum.

• Relational boundaries — why we need them and what The Bible has to say about it.

• What’s the Future of AI? Goldman Sachs gives their take.

• “What’s the least amount of daily exercise I can get away with?”

• The worst branding blunders of the AI era.

• Dane Ortlund’s latest“100 Facets of the Diamond of Jesus Christ”

• 12 Traits of Emotionally Intelligent People (Video)

Paywall

• Adult children are abandoning family relationships because of Tik-Tok therapists. Healthy or problematic? (NYT)

• The New York Times released a top 100 book list for the 21st century.

• A 100 Million Dollar Wedding. (WSJ)

• The country’s top organization for HR professionals is distancing itself from the “equity” plank of diversity, equity and inclusion. (WSJ)

Data

• Homes

  • The number of U. S. households increased by just 10.1 million from 2010 to 2020, fewer than in any other decade between 1950 and 2010. (source)

  • The number of first-time homebuyers declined to just 26% in 2022, which is the lowest level since the National Association of Realtors began tracking data. (source)

  • The average age for a first-time home buyer in 2023 was 35. (source)

• Journalism (FYI: Mike Woodruff will be releasing a book soon on this topic)

  • According to one estimate, nearly seven per cent of American newspaper employees now work at the NYT.

  • A report on local news in the United States revealed that 2,627 weekly publications closed or merged with other papers between 2004 and 2023, with the number of non-daily papers falling from over 7.4 thousand to less than 4.8 thousand in that period. (source)

• Priorities

  • A recent survey by Pew Research Center found that only 39 percent of registered U.S. voters say “society is better off if people make marriage and having children a priority,” and a majority say society is “just as well off if people have priorities other than marriage and children.”

  • Conversely, 88 percent of parents consider it “extremely” or “very” important for their children to be financially independent and have jobs or careers they enjoy. (source)