10/16/2020: Weekly Newsletter
Money
Square bought $50M in bitcoin
The IPO behind k-pop and BTS
Walmart’s rival sale to Prime Day
2,000 Robinhood accounts hacked
Coinbase’s Chief Compliance Officer leaves the company in the wake of controversy about founder Armstrong’s position on political & social beliefs at work
Matt Levine is a great Bloomberg columnist I follow that always has fascinating takes on Wall Street
Tech
What does the coronavirus look like compared to a grain of salt and other interesting particles
I’ve been listening to a new Podcast series about the Apollo 13 flight mission by the BBC called 13 Minutes to the Moon. On a similar topic, Katherine Johnson, famous mathemetician who helped with the moon landing, receives National Geographic Society Hubbard Medal
If this has peaked your interest in applying to being an astronaut, this is a fascinating insight into the application process
Eric Lander, geneticist & mathemetician, absolutely insightful in saying “And almost all the interesting jobs and challenges haven’t been invented at the time you’re a kid…so like what’s the point of planning your destination with any precision?…because the destination isn’t there yet.”
Etc.
This was hilarious – Take a quiz to find out what flavor of imposter syndrome you suffer from
Listen to Not So Silent Reading’s latest episode about mystery book The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (subscribe now at Apple podcast
