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The Biggest Wastes Of Time We Regret When We Get Older
 We spend a lot of energy looking for shortcuts to save time, and sure, those shortcuts add up. But when I look back, my biggest time regrets aren't spending too much time on Twitter or mismanaging my daily tasks. Those are bad habits, but there are bigger, more systematic time wasters that have really gotten in the way. Fixing these will free up a massive amount of time and energy.
My first week on my first job out of university, my boss handed me a huge spreadsheet. He told me to organise it in a way that made zero sense to me. Being a quiet, timid person, I simply nodded, walked back to my desk and stared at that spreadsheet for like an hour, hoping to make some sense of it (yep, just like George Costanza and the Penske file).
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WorkWorkWorkThe Supreme Court wants to make it easier to build The Supreme Court handed down an opinion on Thursday that reads like it was written by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, the authors of an influential book arguing that excessive regulation of land use and development has made it too difficult to build housing and infrastructure in the United States. (Ezra is also a co-founder of Vox.) Work
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WorkTrump's team plots plan B for imposing tariffs - WSJ (No paywall) The administrations tariff strategy was undermined when a court this week found it was illegal for Trump to impose sweeping duties by using emergency economic powers. A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed his duties to stay in effect while the administrations appeal moves forward, but U.S. officials are weighing their options should they need to find a new legal authority to impose the presidents steep tariffs, which he argues will help rebalance trade in Americas favor. WorkWorkWorkSunlight Might Hold the Key to Treating Autoimmune Diseases - Scientific American (No paywall) Every morning Kathy Reagan Young steps out of the shower in her Virginia Beach home, towels off, dons a pair of protective goggles and stands nine inches from a light box the size of a small space heater. Young presses a button, and the box's bulbs begin to glow a ghostly purple. She briefly bathes her torso in the ultraviolet rays coming from the bulbs, four minutes per side. Then she goes about her day.
WorkWorkWorkCalifornia has got really good at building giant batteries - The Economist (No paywall) A renewable energy corridor is rising in eastern Kern County, Californiawhere the Mojave Desert meets the Sierra Nevada mountains. Among the wind turbines, solar panels and Joshua Trees are giant batteries that look like shipping containers. Tesla workers tinker with the ones at the Eland solar and storage project, developed by Arevon Energy. They wear sun hats and boots and warn your correspondent to watch out for rattlesnakes. Work
WorkPresident Trump isn't a tariff king - WSJ (No paywall) In a ruling heard round the world, the U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday blocked President Trump's sweeping tariffs. This is an important moment for the rule of law as much as for the economy, proving again that America doesnt have a king who can rule by decree. WorkWorkWorkHow Small-Business Owners Won a Tariff Victory for All Companies - Inc (No paywall) A group of small business owners just won the first round of a legal slugfest with the White House over President Donald Trump's import tariffs. Late Wednesday night, the U.S. Court of International Trade sided with entrepreneurs whose pair of multi-plaintiff cases argued those duties on foreign goods were both illegally based and exceeded any authority granted to the presidencyleading it to block the majority of Trump's customs levies.
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WorkWorkWorkBusiness Insider Lays Off 21% of Staff “Since returning to our roots as Business Insider, we've been building toward something new,” Peng wrote. “This kind of transformation takes timeâand it requires tough decisions along the way.” Work WorkWorkWorkWork 
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WorkThe Startup Highway: The People You Meet and How They DriveAn extended analogy comparing startup life to a highway, reflecting on the different kinds of people you'll meet along the journey. From reckless overtakers to slow but steady haulers, this is a meditation on pace, intent, and where the road might lead. WorkWorkWork 
WorkWorkCrypto king torture investigation takes shocking turn Two members of the NYPD, including a detective in Mayor Eric Adams' security detail, have been placed on modified duty this week after links surfaced to two crypto businessmen charged with kidnapping an Italian tourist earlier this month, sources closes to the case tell News 4. Sources familiar with the case say NYPD brass learned the detective assigned to protect... WorkWorkHas RFK Jr misdiagnosed America? podcast Last week Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump's health chief and a longtime vaccine sceptic, presented a report on children's health by the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) commission. The study singled out the negative impact of vaccines, ultra-processed foods, environmental chemicals, lack of exercise and "over-medicalisation".This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Jessica Glenza about the long-term implications of the Maha movement's influence on US policy WorkWorkElon Musk Didn't Blow Up Washington, But He Left Plenty of Damage Behind - The New Yorker (No paywall) It ended, of course, with a tweet. Late on Wednesday evening, Elon Musk announced the official end of his short, traumatic tenure as the head of a made-up agency called the Department of Government Efficiency. Musks post on X, the social-media network he owns and had sought to weaponize in service of a radical cost-costing assault on the federal government, was brief. After thanking Donald Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending, the worlds richest man, deflated but still defiant, added, The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government. |
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