My morning in the middle of the week train WFH wrote:

• 2021 Market Annual Review This is a year when the supply chain is broken, Amazon aggregators, more advertising, Shopify is almost a market, and an unanswered question-does the pandemic actually promote e-commerce? Currently, the world of the market revolves around Amazon-its size has doubled in two years. (Market pulse)

• Welcome to the “Junior Year” of Covid-19.Not prettyThe physical and psychological consequences of the endless pandemic are forming devastating consequences. What are Americans going to do? (sound) You can also take a look Why Covid Death Rates Increase in Certain Groups Compared with before all adults were eligible for vaccination, the virus now causes a higher proportion of deaths among young Americans and white Americans due to various causes. (New York Times)

• Top 10 economic issues in 2022 Economic growth, employment, unemployment rate, participation rate, inflation, etc. (Calculated risk)

• Space station race In a few years, the International Space Station will burn out in the Earth’s atmosphere, paving the way for new businesses in space. (Recode)

• Pet food shortages are real, and owners are scrambling.’This is a waking nightmare’ Your dog wants the taste of chicken and rice, but has to eat dry kibbles, because import and production stagnation has hit dog food and cat food like human food. “He looked at me with these sad eyes.” (Wall Street Journal)

• Yes, most Americans own capital: but our housing-based capital ownership system is unsustainable. The most important part of capital ownership: housing. The reason for this is that your house is part of the means of production-it provides “housing services” by giving you a residence. Most American households—always just under 2/3—are homeowners:(Noapignon)

• Architects who make friends with floods: A Chinese landscape architect pioneered a new approach-working with water instead of trying to succumb to our wishes. (MIT Technology Review)

• You are not rich (if you do it often) When these customers go to their Hampton Summer House, participate in an exclusive Super Bowl party and ski on a private mountain-they always lament a must. Need to check their email frequently. They are ridiculously rich. But the attention is poor. (Radiation reading)

• The James Webb Space Telescope has been launched: now is the difficult part: After years of delay, the most ambitious observatory in history has finally left the earth. It is now facing a series of high-risk deep space deployments (Scientific american)

• Rethink Kandinsky: The problem with many of Kandinsky’s abstract concepts is that they do not provide enough direct visual information to “decipher” his expressive codes of color and form. (Allergy)

Be sure to check our Master of Business This week, Max Chafkin is a feature editor and technical reporter for BusinessWeek. His work has also appeared in “Fast Company”, “Vanity Fair” and “New York Times” magazines. His most recent book is “Contrarian investors: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s pursuit of power. “

The IPO hit a record high in 2021.Now they are selling like crazy.

source: Wall Street Journal

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