The weekend is here! Pour yourself a cup of Brazilian Daterra Estate Sweet Blue RFA coffee, grab a seat in the sun and get ready for our long weekend:

• America’s most popular truck is about to test Tesla’s dominance With the release of the F-150 Lightning this month, Ford hopes to bring electrification to new and traditional truck buyers and eventually replace its industry-defining gas-powered line. (Bloomberg)

• Chris Dixon thinks web3 is the future of the internet – is it? Also, why a16z spent $3 billion on web3 startups (edge)

• Crypto Wolf Jordan Belfort, the inspiration for The Wolf of Wall Street, marketed himself as a cryptocurrency guru. (New York Times)

• Retire the Margaritaville Way Five o’clock is everywhere in the active community of Jimmy Buffett lovers. (New Yorker)

• The Fate of Mackenzie Scott: After worrying about rent for three years, she’s now giving away billions — while trying to keep herself out of the spotlight. (New York Times)

• how to succeed Make yourself useful to smart, successful people. This is how you should spend the first ten years of your career. Hang out with smart, successful people and bet on them. This is how you should spend the next ten years. Then you’re done, if you want to. (reform broker)

• A day in (almost) every vending machine in the world What’s behind the indestructible charm of robotic snacks? (protector)

• Why the last 10 years of American life have been so stupid It’s not just a stageThe story of the Tower of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened in America in the 2010s and the broken country we now live in. A terrible thing happened, very suddenly. We are lost, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from each other, from the past. (atlantic organization)

• Can a virus cause Alzheimer’s? COVID-19 brain research offers new cluesThe diseases share some striking similarities, and experts now believe that studying the brains of COVID-19 patients may lead to better treatments for both diseases. (National Geographic)

• These three Michelin-starred dinner plates were invented by artificial intelligence.food doesn’t even exist When AI serves food, the result is an uncanny delight. (fast company)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview this weekend with Luana Lopez LauraCo-founder Karsh, has been approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as an Authorized Designated Contract Market (DCM). Kalshi operates a federally regulated exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the expected outcome of future events.

Will the Ukraine War Change Europe’s View on Nuclear?

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