Naturally, I have never been a big spring break person. Growing up, spring break meant heading back home to work or save money. It was always a time watching college friends go snowboarding or on vacation.
Today spring break means emails slow down, and responses come to a halt as our educators take a much-needed break.
I am excited to use this time to work on long-term projects.
Last week, we had three presentations with Tarrant To and Through Partnership in Fort Worth, Texas, where over 100+ Seniors joined the agency as they prepare for their first year of college. I was excited about these presentations because these kids go to schools in my neighborhood!
WHAT I LEARNED đź§
This was the best story I read all week. Blew my mind 🤯
America’s love of free markets extends to its fertility clinics. Thanks to an absence of regulation, America is a notable exporter of human sperm.
Denmark spent 1.9% of their GDP in 2018 —on retraining and on advising the jobless. These interventions stop the unemployed from falling into dependency. America’s comparable spending is less than a 20th as large as Denmarks.
America ranks below the average for the OECD club of industrialized countries in The Economist’s annual glass-ceiling index of female empowerment, owing to poor marks on parental leave and political representation. But it has a high share of women in management (41%) and on company boards (28%).
Women Employment Impact due to COVID đź“Š
Recessions typically hit men harder than women because they tend to disproportionately affect male-dominated industries, such as construction and manufacturing. In the recession of 2008-09, for example, men accounted for some three-quarters of American job losses. The most recent downturn, by contrast, has weighed on female-dominated sectors.
In-person event sales are increasing in America 🎟
Eventbrite, the ticketing firm, said last Monday that “paid ticket volume” rose 18% in February compared with January, thanks to sales of more tickets for in-person events. That growth is stronger outside the U.S. than at home, notably.
NFTs incorporate technology similar to bitcoin, the decade-old digital currency, albeit with a key difference: Whereas one bitcoin is exchangeable with another bitcoin, each NFT serves as a singularly unique marker for the digital asset it tags.
The winner of Beeple’s 2021 piece, “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” will receive the image along with its unique token, which will be sent to the winner’s address—the unique identifier for a cryptocurrency account. This token will convey ownership from the artist to its new owner.
According to Christie's, the price tag on the Beeple sale places him among the top three most valuable living artists. It also eclipses prices paid for works by other renowned visual artists, such as the impressionist painter Edvard Munch, whose “Girls on the Bridge” sold for $54m in 2016 by Sotheby’s.
According to Nielsen, the television research firm, viewership for Sunday’s Grammy Awards on CBS fell to 8.8 million viewers. That’s a new low for the show and a 53 percent drop compared with last year’s show, which drew 18.7 million viewers.
