What I read this week...

Creators, Southwest, and Pele

What I read this week…

• Europe’s spring weather is Putin’s winter of discontent (Bloomberg Opinion)

• Creator financing is going mainstream (The Information)

• Pete Buttigieg, Air Traffic Controller (WSJ Ed Board)

• The Southwest Airlines debacle and the art of the apology (Flack)

• How China is using Vladimir Putin (The Atlantic)

• Tesla won't dominate the auto industry, because no one will (Noahpinion)

• How to read balance sheets - software edition (OnlyCFO)

• The Tom Brady of other jobs (NYT)

On Twitter…

MrBeast @MrBeast

Around 1% of the human population watches every video we make 😮

Ethan Mollick @emollick

I think I have found a favorite ChatGPT hallucination. I asked it to provide a table of the cities in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and, after a couple of real ones, it just started making them up. I then asked the AI to provide entries on the fictional fictional cities…

Nick Maggiulli @dollarsanddata

Perfect case study of how “Everyone feels like a genius in a bull market”

Dan Savage @fakedansavage

To lose your mother on 9/11 may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose her again on 12/23 looks like carelessness.

GOAL @goal

“One day, I hope we can play football together in the sky” - Pele’s message after Diego Maradona died in 2020. Enjoy your game, legends 🙏